Fence project

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I thought I'd take a picture first thing this morning. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

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I told the customer that for that price he got a plain pipe gate. The other day he meekly asked if I could maybe put a dubya in it.

I asked him what kind of a dubya did he want.

He explained that all he wanted was one of those square piece ones made out of the pipe in the gate, you know the kind everyone does.

I busted out laughing. I told him not to worry. I'd already planned on a dubya in his gate. I promised him he'd like it.

There's within a couple of inches or so a hundred and twenty five feet of two inch (2 3/8") schedule forty pipe in this gate at three point six four pounds per foot if I recall correctly. It's heavy enough to make the grunt factor do a double take.

The bends I did with my Hossfield. I just bent some pieces. And I went to a little extra trouble to make none of the pieces exactly alike. I don't work that way. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I used a bud's shop floor to weld it up. His man is one of those real quiet deadly types. He'll sneak up an idea on you without saying squat that will put you on your heels if not flat on your back. He was looking at those short pieces of bent pipe, them wheels a gnashing almost audible like.

I explained what I wanted and then had more fun than if I'd laid it out myself watching him out of the corner of my eye while I welded up the rest of it.

 

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If you look at the hinge post you'll see that I use the gate upright as part of the hinge system. That's point one five four wall galvanized two inch pipe. The pipe is hot dip galvanized. That means it's galvanized inside too. That's a good thing.

Now the pipe has about a two point next to nothing I.D. One of the problems with hinges is if they're not kept lubed and active and they're the same metal they freeze up. Especially if they're mild steel. Rust can be the tie that binds. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The pin for that hinge is two inch stainless bar. It's not cheap, twenty two dollars a foot for scrap price if'n you're buying. Of course this gate has less than a foot of pin in it. Actually there's a four inch piece at each end. That's enough to tie into the strength of the horizontal rail which is what I think is important. The stainless and the galvanized combination should never bind. They'll also last past my lifetime. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

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Then I got out the camera near the end of the day for a couple of progress shots.

This is standing next to the gate looking south.

 

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Here's looking west.

 

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This little angled panel took as long as stretching a full roll. Pain in the backside. But part of it.

 

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Looking east.

This is five foot non climb horse wire.

I use steel fence ties. Aluminum is for sissies. It doesn't work worth a flip besides getting a job done half way fast like.

When I'm done each fence post will have four ties. There will be five ties between posts on the top rail. Each tie will be tight.

Lately there's come out these twist ties. A couple of problems with those. First the ends are a potential hazard to livestock. Secondly and just as important, they don't secure the wire the way a fenceman doing a steel tie does.

When a tie is put on properly the ends do not present a hazard. And it works with the post and the fabric to get the best out of each.

I'll climb off of my soapbox.

I like my work. I hate to see the craftsmanship taken out of it.

 

[Henro]

W Harv,

I always admire your work!

But, I could not help but wonder why I had the feeling when looking at your pictures in this thread...a sort of a sad feeling that it is a shame that we sometimes need to put up fences among neighbors!

To keep the cows in...I understand that...

Somehow I ended up with the feeling that there were no cows to keep in on the land where this fence went up...

Still, I do admire your work and thank you for sharing with us!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Somehow I ended up with the feeling that there were no cows to keep in on the land where this fence went up...)</font>

This customer has been here for over twenty years. He loves his plants, fish, dog, especially, his wild flowers.

As you can see he's surrounded by subdivisions. Kids, dogs, and the inconsiderate parents in the subdivision have been a plague upon him.

More than once he's had to explain to a neighbor that just because he has a big yard it doesn't mean it's okay for them to dump their excess yard clippings, dog droppings, or just spare dirt on his yard.

More than once he's had folks just walk in and about his property doing a look see without invitation.

He wanted a fence that would improve the value of the property, be as unintrusive as possible, he does like to share the beauty of his wild flowers in the spring. And he wanted to not have to confront neighbors about either just turning their dogs loose to defecate on his property or even worse yet, walk their dogs to defecate on his property.

We put up fences to keep others out and ours in. He hasn't ever had a crime problem but he is tired of being bothered by rude people.

With two and a half acres in this prime location the person who buys the property at a later day is probably going to want it to have a horse etc. This style of fence increases the value of the property in that direction.

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> We put up fences to keep others out and ours in. He hasn't ever had a crime problem but he is tired of being bothered by rude people.</font>

Yes, I think that is what I was feeling...

Sure is a shame when your neighbors don't respect your privacy or your property... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif