Building a fence

[czechsonofagun]

I had a bag of cement left - used it to put the bricks down. Just water and cement, it will hold. Anyway, made me a simple jig to shape fence boards.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Overkill on crossbeams hardware, 1/2" fasteners. 3/4" hole in the post and zinc anchor holds it up.

The whole section comes off - it just takes 4 nuts to remove - I wanted it that way for painting.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Boards distances kicked my butt few times, haha, finally figured it out. Also spacing on incline can be tricky.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Two sections done, 13 more to go- and than the gate

The fence will weather over the winter and will get painted in the spring - the wife said. She did not specified what Spring and I will leave it to her

 

[Egon]

Done good!:thumbsup:

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Cement, I think.

No, not cement. Concrete.

They are not the same thing.

 

[sld]

We stained our cedar fence and it has held well into the 3rd year. Looks nice.

You have done a great job and that fence will last a loooong time no matter how you finish it.

 

[jimmyj]

Impressive. Nicely done!

 

[czechsonofagun]

Thank you all

While the work slowly moves forward - there is a lot of wood planks I need and it takes time and daylight - I am planning the next step.
The next step, that will likely wait till Spring is the gate. I have 14 feet opening that will be enclosed by two wings gate, most likely steel frame with oak boards, I have pretty good idea what I want.

But the gate pillars are problem. I decided to use 12x12x8 cinder blocks like this one:



but after checking with Home Depot, Lowes and various local brick and stone places I gave up on those. Just not available in Virginia. The new plan is to dry stack regular concrete blocks (8x8x16) around rebar and fill them with concrete. It would help with electrical boxes and conduit - yes, the wife needs lights at the gate - and also would make hinge installation easier.

The last resort would be to form and pour pillars using concrete, but I just dont feel like forming 5'8" pillars.

What do you think?

 

[bcp]

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