Price Check

[Jolly]

Time to build and rebuild fence.

What's a couple of high school boys worth, when it comes to putting in t-posts and stringing fence?

[BlackWillowFarm]

I'd say minimum wage, water and soda and if they're good, a pizza.

[65284]

What they are worth, and what you have to pay them, may be two entirely different things.

[HeelSpur]

Around here, 50 cents.

[Txrider]

I paid my nephews $100 a day, and they more than earned it. They were actually not expecting even that.

[ldc]

Down here, there were no jobs for teens this year, so any possibility would be the minimum wage plus cold drinks, too.

[uncle Will in In.]

I was always told when I was growing up that one boy can do a boys work.. Two boys are only like half a boy, and three boys are like no boy at all.

If you can hire one good worker give him $10 an hour. If you hire two of them $7.50 is enough. LOL

I find paying boys a good wage makes it easier to hire them the next time you need help.

[Pearl B]

If you want a good fence you might be better off finding people that do just that. I know.
Whoever you hire just keep an eye on them.

I find paying boys a good wage makes it easier to hire them the next time you need help.

This. I usually offer a decent wage, and tell them there might be more work coming. Then if they do a really good job, I will pay them more at the end, and keep their number.

[fordy]

.................Depends........have you laid out the fence line and marked each posthole and Tpost location with bright orange paint ? Is your fence line cleared of all obstacles and ready to install posts and Tposts and pull wire ? If yes , I'd pay them $10 for the first 2 hours , and IF they work like they should I'd pay them $12.50 for all subsequent hours ! Driving Tposts in anything other than soft soil is Misery defined , you should rent a tractor with a Tpost driver if available to improve efficiency . Were it me I'd be on site and never leave these guys too their own devices and you might endup with a very tight fence with a long life span . , fordy

[HilltopDaisy]

I have had terrible luck hiring teenage boys. Always ended up redoing the work myself.

Until this one!!! I now have a gem of a helper who is worth his weight in gold. I offered him $8 per hour at first, but I have consistantly paid him $10 because he's a keeper. He shows up on time, he's polite, he's smart, and he pays attention. I want him to *want* to come help me.

I've learned a lot over the years, too. Just because a kid nods when you ask if he understands doesn't mean he really does. I work side by side with my helper, we work as a team. Also, I hope I am teaching him a few things as we go. He's only 16 so I can't expect him to know everything that I've learned in over 50 years.

[sidepasser]

My son got 10.00 an hour for fencing, but that including taking up the old fence posts and wire, clearing the fence line and putting in new posts and wire. He and a friend of his did 6,000 linear feet of hog wire fencing with two strands of barb wire, and a good portion of that fencing was done through a swamp. The job was started in July and finished in August before school started. Had to wait till then for the swamp to dry up enough to get the tractor in there but there were some spots where he had to do the clearing and post pulling by hand.

It was a tough job and he earned every dollar he made. Fence still looks great two years later with horses on both sides of it!