A lesson in patience...or, building a pipe rail fence

Oh, I wish the process of building a pipe rail fence could go faster.  But, truthfully when it is just the two of us building this fence, it's going to take much longer than if we hired it out.  But that is what we wanted when we bought this land.  We plan on taking our time and doing things right!

So, last Saturday, we got started on placing the posts in the ground, and we got 7 done!  It may not seem like a lot of progress to some, but it felt great and we plan on doing another 10 this Saturday which will finish up the east side of our property - well posts will be done.  We'll have to do the top rail next then the no-climb wire fencing.  BUT, progress was made!

We laid out the 7 foot posts where we wanted to place them and marked them with spray paint as far as how deep they needed to go into the ground (approximately 2 feet).

Next, we (I say we, but I mean HE) dug the holes with our neighbor's hole auger.  It made the job 100Xs easier than if we would have dug by hand.

Then, we put about a pint of rock and some dry concrete into the holes.  Then Aaron mixed up the concrete and we poured in into the holes.

We "floated" the poles, meaning we put them in the wet concrete and then pounded them down into place.  We did do the first one by putting the pole into the ground and then pouring the cement, but in the end, we feel like that pole didn't get as much cement as the others, therefore is not as "cemented" in.

Some of the poles required bracing, but mostly we got them level using a magnetic level and they stayed put.

According to the weather apps, it's supposed to rain here on Saturday and Sunday...uggg...we hope it stays away till at least Monday so we can get 10 more in the ground.