Advice on fencing type and installation

[quicksandfarmer]

Setting the posts is most of the work, and well-treated posts can last a long time. With good posts, if you install one style of fence and later decide you don't like it, you can change the fence while keeping the posts. I've got one section of fence that has been three difference fences on the same posts: when I bought the place it was a 6' stockade fence, but we thought that was too high so I cut two feet off of the tops of the posts and replaced it with a picket fence. After about fifteen years the rails on the picket fence started to rot, so I replaced it with a cedar plank dog-ear fence. Get the best posts you can find, you might have to go to an old-fashioned lumberyard or a fence supply store. For the quantity you're talking a box store would probably have to order them anyway. And keep the spacing an inch or so under 8' so that an 8' rail won't have to be stretched if you go that way.

Oh, and I think you'd be crazy not to use a 3-point PHD for this many posts. Unless the soil is rocky the PHD will dig a hole in a few seconds. Just placing and tamping the posts is going to be a workout.

 

[LouNY]

Look in your local farm publication or farm stores for business cards and hire a field fencing contractor to install a 4 or 5 strand hi-tensile fence using insulator tubes in case you ever decide to electrify it. They will come in with a good post driver and drive the post one day fence it the next and be done. Driven post will stay much better then dug ones will.

 

[Diggin It]

Look in your local farm publication or farm stores for business cards and hire a field fencing contractor to install a 4 or 5 strand hi-tensile fence using insulator tubes in case you ever decide to electrify it.

Why do people keep mentioning that type of fence when the OP has clearly stated several times that he does not have animals and this will be a decorative front yard fence only?

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Look in your local farm publication or farm stores for business cards and hire a field fencing contractor to install a 4 or 5 strand hi-tensile fence using insulator tubes in case you ever decide to electrify it. They will come in with a good post driver and drive the post one day fence it the next and be done. Driven post will stay much better then dug ones will.

If I was looking at that many posts I would definitely at least talk to a pro about coming in and driving the posts. Sometimes someone who's in the business of buying in quantity can deliver and install for not much more than what a homeowner would pay for the materials. Of course local conditions vary, but I'd at least look into it.

 

[Atchuuu]

Bought this at a Black Friday Sale for $450. Ready to start putting in posts. :laughing:

 

[Fuddy1952]

I was trying to think of a funny reply but I bet that's for ice fishing?

 

[RUSTBUCKET BRONCO]

Bought this at a Black Friday Sale for $450. Ready to start putting in posts.

You'd have to post before and after photos because your arms would look like popeyes after you're done

 

[prichard]

Bought this at a Black Friday Sale for $450. Ready to start putting in posts. :laughing:

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It reverses too! Let us know how that works out for you.

 

[Spindifferent]

Here is a picture of one of my gates That gives you an idea of the general construction. View attachment 579576

Ah, good old Hamms beer! Looks like those fence posts perfectly support the official beer of wooden fence posts!:drink::laughing:

 

[Atchuuu]

Ah, good old Hamms beer! Looks like those fence posts perfectly support the official beer of wooden fence posts!:drink::laughing:

Good eye. I missed that because I was looking at the fence work. You clearly have your priorities straight.