Abby Containment

[Doug Krebs]

How about this, we (my dad) built the fence in our backyard in 1985 and the 4x4's are still going strong. However, the power pole up at our property has rotted twice in about 10 years. I think termites may have helped that out though. It was probably an 8-10" round pole.

[BMFScout]

Thinking about it now, it may have been 20 years ago that dad planted those poles, and he may have added on 10 years ago or so. Either way, I bet in 20 years the metal poles we sunk will still be just fine, regardless of how much water the back end of my lot holds. Up here when a new house is built they use cheap fence panels and throw up a wooden poled fence. The wind is probably what takes care of them more than the rotting. So when people replace them, I think upselling them to steel poles is pretty easy. I can't imagine the steel poles costing that much more, and it is a much sturdier fence.

[KrazyKarl02]

My old man's metal fence is starting to rust out, it is 18 years old.

[jerryg79]

My old man's metal fence is starting to rust out, it is 18 years old.

it's not cause i let the gate slam!!!!! It was zenner!

[BMFScout]

Bump!

This time at Father Brune's house in Murphy, this weekend. Same agreement as last time, lots of beer and food for those helping. John the redneck neighbor will be there, barking out orders and sharing his views on life, liberty, etc. We're starting Saturday pretty early and will go through Sunday night. Come one, come all should be an awesome time.

[FJAggie07]

Damnt! I would love to help out but I am heading down to CS for a ring dunk.

[bburris]

I already told Fred that I'm there.

BEANERS!

[BMFScout]

I'll get some pics together. This fence should be a monument to fences everywhere. Fence experts far and wide should come and document it so in the future they will know how to build fences....or something. Two days of 5 guys working, 3+ cases of beer, and we haven't even started hanging pickets yet.

[bburris]

Work? I was just there for the food...

[Fredo]

Yes, the food was indeed worth it. Between the chicken spaghetti for lunch, the enchiladas and fajitas for dinner saturday, and the hoagies for lunch sunday and brisket for dinner, it was quite the feast all weekend. Between the food and the beer, it probably doulbed or tripled the calories we burned while building fence.

[uglyota]

That sounds absolutely miserable. Bring them skillllz up here when you finish and help me rebuild mine. I'll pay for your lift ticket!

[Fredo]

Well, here's a few pictures from the weekend. Jimmy has some funny ones on his camera, but here are the ones showing what a brick ****house of a fence looks like.

Here we are finishing up demo and post removal of the old fence.



Here's a shot of how long the run is. 245ft if I remember correctly.


Setting some poles after digging 48 or so fresh holes due to poles every 6ft, plus gates and such. Jimmy has some Auger pics. I never want to have to run a two person auger again.


and more poles...





Here we are saturday laying out the mudboard and stringers for the pickets after attaching all the brackets and setting a couple more poles for the second gate.

[Fredo]

Here's a couple shots of when I went over tonight. Apparently John, the redneck neighbor, decided to finish the 6ft section by the house while we were at work today. Looks good so far and if you walk up to it and hit it with your hand, it sounds like you're hitting the side of a log cabin. F'n solid.


Here's pickets laid out for the remainder. I guess we're going to try to do them by worklights this week.

[davido]

Holy hell that's a bad ass looking fence. The bling bling $$ of wood fences.

[robertf03]

who had the misfortune of operating the widowmaker?