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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve pulled them before with shovels and a farm jack, and it is a nightmare, dangerous too. Now we have machinery to do it, or a truck and chain, wouldn’t do it manually any more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The overhead running a legit business is unreal.

  My general advice is don’t use post mix concrete, use regular stone mix and backfill immediately. The backfilled dirt will hold it in place and slow the cure, giving you hours to go back and tweak as you go. That rapid post makes no sense, there’s no urgency in the setting phase, that’s the opposite of what you want.

  And remember, if you do a good job it can last 20+ years, so don’t be lazy and take a shortcut because it’s “good enough”. You’re better spending $300 on a rental machine to dig the holes than to set a post that isn’t deep enough. I’m in Canada where frost can be hell, my posts go 4’ down and usually 5 bags concrete per post, then another 3 bags down the post once it’s all assembled. Your 40’ fence I could easily put in 50 bags. Don’t base your shopping list on that, but know that if you care about longevity it takes patience and hard work, like anything else in life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My time to shine. I own a company that does fences, we specialize in custom vinyl. Obviously this varies by region, but I’ll price vinyl $95-130/ft, and $300 per gate. Depending on if I liked you, what I knew about the soil, travel time to your job, I’d probably come in around $5300, installed

  It might sound insane, but my 4 man crew costs about $1100/day to keep on the road. 40’ in bad conditions is 2 days minimum, can easily spill into 3. My materials would be around $1500, so worst case I’m netting in $500 for 3 days of work, which is damn near unsustainable considering the amount of machinery I’ve got in play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't know if it was a glitch or what but when I just logged in it logged me in to another users account.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this happen to my Angelfire account in 1997, logged in and I had access to someone else’s crappy website. After that I stuck to Tripod.

  Sucked because the hit counter on that page was huge, I was almost ready to take down my “under construction” gif

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who says they don’t already? I knew a guy who worked for a major government agency who’s job was to look over horrible pictures to try to figure out where they were taken.

  I bet the most skilled people do work for them, not just youtube. But talking to that guy, it’s a tough job, not for everyone. Instead of a random streetview image it’s a scene of abuse, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dollar General has 48hrs to make stores safe or face more penalties after $12m fine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The company, which operates more than 19,000 discount stores worldwide, agreed to pay the $12m fine In March, Dollar General announced that its 2023 fiscal year operating profit was $2.4bn.

  So they have 19,000 stores, on average profiting $126,000, and their share of the fine is $630?

  That fine should be 12mil per day to actually see some action. One time it’s just the cost of doing business

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s anything inherent in construction that is causing a higher suicide rate. Construction labourer is a job just about anyone can get and male dominated.

  I’ve hired some people who seemed like they weren’t in a great place. It’s low skill and it doesn’t hurt to take a chance on someone and hope the stability will help get them on the right track.

  I haven’t had any coworkers take their own lives, but I could see someone at the end of the rope being more likely to find a job on a construction site instead of a dentists office

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wells Fargo workers using ‘mouse movers’ are getting caught and fired - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last month, Wells Fargo reportedly fired over a dozen employees for using tools that fake productivity at work. Wells Fargo has approximately 194K employees as of May 2024

  So 0.00006% of their employees?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many songs are about Courtney Love?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess Heart Shaped Box and About a Girl, for starters