Working on the fence at my cabin in Montana

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A couple of days ago, I posted about finding my gate and the right side of the fence down when I got to our family cabin in Montana. You can see the "before" picture there. I noticed that much of the old fence was rotted (decades old), so I simply removed that wood and stacked it up somewhere else. The gate itself I was able to salvage. The next step was to take down some small Douglas fir trees for my new fence. I chose those that had been damaged by "pine beetle," which has been killing a lot of conifers in Montana (and elsewhere) in recent years. I made one new fence post, and set it as deep into the ground as I could using only a shovel to dig the hole. While things were still on the ground, I put some nails in all of the posts that my smallish trees could rest on. Some I later nailed in; others I left lying on the nails only. Here's what things looked like after a couple of days. The smaller fence post is "new." How much do you think it would cost to have "someone else" do this where you live? I actually enjoyed the process as much as the product.