You put a tarp on the ground to keep the grass from getting dirty, coro is expensive. You also left out keeping a gallon of white paint, brushes and foam rollers in the truck to touch up your tamp marks and dirty hand prints when you're done. Amateur.
What wall thickness on the tube?
3 to 5 hours to dig three holes for a V Sign?
You think it's too high? Those of us in the Western US can attest to the challenge of digging by hand - we either hit caliche or small boulders and it's never easy. I could rent an auger to save some time but then have to bill for equipment rental and more back & forth travel. Everything is rural here. We did one recently that took 3 hours total and almost an hour of that was digging the holes.
The auger does amazingly well in about 95% of stuff I've come across. It chews though caliche. We have not had a good rain in months and it's starting to show. On Monday I was out near Olney and about 4" down it's nothing but compacted dry clay. I had to use post hole diggers to chip away at it because it was burning the drill up.
Oh damn... I was doing that on Monday. I started smelling crude oil and thought I hit Texas tea... but it was the drill getting so hot.
That you driving?
I'm not. I quoted 3-5 hours labor because digging holes here is a PITA, and so are realtors. Supposedly they're going to be installing the sign today and I'm going to cruise by later this afternoon to see how far they've gotten.
That's how it is here too. We don't have caliche, but really hard packed dry ground filled with rocks.
Surveying the site and calling in the JULIE request is going to cost over $50.00 for an insured installer. And of course you would never hire some kid with a pickup to do this kind of work; along with getting injured or killed if he hits a power or gas line, the bill to fix it and all the hospital bills will be paid by YOU or your insurance company (who will promptly drop you and welcome to the world of high risk insurance premiums - if you can still get it). Repair costs will be north of $1500 for a simple electric feed line, $2k - $10k for a broken water line, and god forbid you hit a main fiber communications cable, which can run into $100k or more!
I have one real estate customer and not taking any more. That said, digging holes with a post hole digger seemed like too much work, so I got a power auger from Harbor Freight for about $200. Problem solved? The first - and last - job I did with my power auger was at a site with very little margin for error, given the underground obstacles. (I had them marked.) That was stressful. Add to that, the power digger had to go through tree roots and didn't like that at all. Think I could have done it easier with a post hole digger (but I broke it on a previous job and didn't bother to buy another.) The job took me two hours in the hot sun.
