I can say this materials alone a year ago would have cost me roughly 1700. I priced it a couple weeks ago and just wood was 4300. That’s no hardware concrete. I need to do about 425-450 feet and that was 6ft. It’s going to wait for awhile.

Hand digging holes is stupid. Right tool, right job an old buddy used to say.

The guys that dug my holes used a rock bar, water hose, and post hole digger. Low tech crew, and it was 100+° every day. And they were the low bidder.

I would be at at $75 to $80 a LF for 8’ cedar board on board with metal posts and top cap.

That’s a good number for about a day! Lumber pricing is a moving target

Thanks for all the help and information. Holy cow are things expensive! Making me think very hard about timing now.

I put it off last year and now I may put it off all together. I`m not paying those prices under no circumstances.

In addition to material pricing another thing driving up building costs is labor. We are having problems hiring guys to work. Why work for me at $200 a day when you can get almost that much tax free sitting your [censored] at home? They are wanting $250 to $300 a day now due to labor shortage. It’s about as bad for us as restaurants now. It all leads to higher prices for everything. I guess it’s up to you on who to blame for the current situation we are in.