Setting Chain Link Fence Posts Quickly And Easily | How We Build Chain Link

We build somewhere over 100 miles of chain link fence every year, and on today's commercial chain link job we show you how to set your posts quickly and easily, while finishing straight as an arrow with a nice gentle flow.

Contents:
00:00 - Sighting Posts
03:49 - Concrete
08:14 - Setting Height

[stFlyingeagle]

I am a professional handyman and live by knowledge and by every trade trick I can learn. This video was absolutely worth my time watching. Thanks for such a heads up. And teaching me something new on the app I use every day. Dam I even took a small page of notes for the reminders.

[daksmash]

Hey I helped my buddy do a chain link fence at his house and with the help of your video it took twice as long as it should have. Thanks brother!!

[MrRamman]

Installing a line takes maybe 5 mins and makes it a fast one man job

[Kingdennissinned]

Where i am working we take a dirt box with 2/3 rock, 1/3 sand and 4 or 5 bags of portland cement mix on a trailer with a mixer mounted on the back.

[TheCertifiedNeto]

we need the rest of the chain-link video's, i want to see more step by step. great job guys'

[jasonp]

Eat, sleep, & dream about fence, settin long lines straight is so enjoyable in San diego

[randydinglehopper]

Good editing @3:44 love that transition slide

[neilkratzer]

Come on guys Great job. We pull the posts off truck or trailer and have someone put all marks on before we start. Even do it at the shop if someone has the time beforehand.

[TheAajsanchez]

Okay I thot you were just jawzin until you busted out the Construction Master Pro. Nice work.

[matthewwhittle]

I thought my old boss was the only company to line I without a sting line. Eye Don't lie, I learned from one of the best :)

[isaiahhuntington]

85 wheel barrow loads DEFINITELY does not sound fun!!
I also agree that setting posts in a straight line is definitely satisfying and my favorite part about installing fence!!

[juanmvivero]

I like to use a nice torpedo level so I can put it in my back pocket when I’m handling the post

[tylerverdin]

Setting post height seems to be the most complicated task of our jobs. Having a ridiculous amount of unleveled ground doesn’t make it easier. Any tips for making that process a bit easier when dealing with unleveled ground?

[queenvictorian]

Shill level definitely like 9 🤣😁 th k you for making this video

[damben]

any rough idea on how much a 237' straight line 8ft tall no barbwire commercial fence would cost in MN? labor and materials, Thanks in advanced...

[moolacue]

Looks good. Only thing is maybe have the guy doing the sight line. Stay back a few post to eye it. If only back one it's easy to jog around.

[soapybee]

Do you think running a string line would be a lot less time consuming back and fourth adjusting the post mad skill to have doing things by eye but seems more time consuming in the long run

[rogerbettencourt]

You sound a lot like this one overweight, middle aged guy with bright green shoes, that’s always yelling at me on the WeTubes. Lol. Great set job guys.

[gomezkillerbee]

Is that the Cody airport? I’m in Georgia. But my brother lives there. It looks familiar

[sassafrasvalley]

I’m making that change immediately… never gonna set another post I before concrete again!

Just curious… we use a lot of hedge (bois d’arc) posts for fences. They will outlast treated pine or cedar by several decades. I can show you fences with 6” diameter posts still solid and strong that are 100 years old. None of them are in cement… there are both dug in and driven in posts in the fences. They were set with rocks and clay pounded into the holes to hold them.

Newer fences with concrete rot the wood!

Now here’s the question(s)… at equal depth and equal diameter… which one holds better? Rock packed or concrete. Second, have you ever used hedge posts?