Friday, March 16, 2007

Fence Me In - PLEASE!



This is what the plan is: Knock down the existing beat-up 10 year old privacy fence that was replace/repaired after the tornado over 10 years ago and use the rails and posts to make a farm-y fence like this one that I saw at HomeDepot.com. will cost us nails, cement and paint. It I want to move it in about 10 or 15 feet closer to the house and leave some space between the fence and the alley. We will obviously have to figure out some way to put chain link or goat pen fencing behind it to keep out critters and riff-raff - probably later we will get chain link all across the back with a wide gate to pull the boat and trailer in and out of that back 10 or 15 feet, but for now, I just can't stand looking at the monstrosity that we have that won't stay up in strong winds anyway. I would post a picture but the camera's batteries are dead -- maybe later.

STEPS:
1) Take down existing fence.
2) Move Dodge out of the way
3) Dig new post-holes in 10-15 feet from alley
4) Cement posts into holes
5) Nail up rails across posts
6) Paint white
7) Stretch wire fencing across the backside of the posts/rails (for now - we will take this down when we can put up chain link fencing)
8) Later: Put up chain link with wide gate for boat/car/trailer parking (in the long run, this will save us $40 a month on trailer storage)

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You repair things with tools. You FIX things with a hammer.