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wroughtn_harv
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Hmmmmm, looks like you got it on the down hillside and it's going to get easy now. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
For those of you who are considering sighting in keep in mind it's the way things were done long before we had string.
I worked with a guy that was a hod carrier for a bricklayer that never touched a string. He claimed the bricklayer was the most productive one he ever work with and his work was perfect.
The easiest way to start is to put your end posts up. Make sure they're plumb. Have a helper go to your second post in line and holding it plumb move it in and out of line for you.
What you're looking for is the line post while plumb to cause the other end post to disappear, but barely.(helpers get hard heads from being smacked repeatedly and often for not hold the post plumb while moving the post. It is not recommended to have your wife be your helper in this endeavor if you're wanting to maintain an active, uh, er, uh, marital discourse.) /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
When the second post is perfectly in line you have the helper move back to the first line post and plumb it in with you sighting in between the second line post and the end post at your end.
After that it's you sighting in from behind the last line post going towards the far end. So you'd move to the second line post and sight in the third looking down line.
If the height is uneven you can temporary some height posts just a tad out of your fence line to help you gauge height. Do have them out of line enough to not confuse you and you start sighting in to them.
Once you get used to what you're wanting to see when the helper is got the post where you want it then you can start doing what I do, backsight.
I'm moving the post just like the helper, plumb, in and out of line. But I'm looking for the same picture you saw when sighting in the helper.
The key to this is to get the post where you want it and then go back to the previous post and sight back down the line to the target post to verify the location is correct.
The reason there isn't many fencewomen isn't because of sexual bias. And it isn't because they're not tough. You don't know tough until you've seen woman tough.
It's because there isn't many books out there explaining how to do fencing the way the pros do. If you've ever done a project with a woman I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. If the way you're doing something isn't like the way they read it being done then you're doing it wrong. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Now, StevenPaul, if you look down your line and you feel like the next one will be better, you've got what it takes to be a fenceman.
I welded up that line I was so proud of yesterday. I was emotionally sick by the end of the day. It was only a week between setting and welding. But in that week we seven plus inches of rain. That affected the clay. Some of my posts moved, not a lot, most folks wouldn't have seen it. But what I thought of was my best line ever ended up being just another line.
I can't wait for the next oppportunity to do a thousand plus feet line. But this time I'm going to try to make it the best one ever.
It'd be a bear to die and not have done that.
For those of you who are considering sighting in keep in mind it's the way things were done long before we had string.
I worked with a guy that was a hod carrier for a bricklayer that never touched a string. He claimed the bricklayer was the most productive one he ever work with and his work was perfect.
The easiest way to start is to put your end posts up. Make sure they're plumb. Have a helper go to your second post in line and holding it plumb move it in and out of line for you.
What you're looking for is the line post while plumb to cause the other end post to disappear, but barely.(helpers get hard heads from being smacked repeatedly and often for not hold the post plumb while moving the post. It is not recommended to have your wife be your helper in this endeavor if you're wanting to maintain an active, uh, er, uh, marital discourse.) /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
When the second post is perfectly in line you have the helper move back to the first line post and plumb it in with you sighting in between the second line post and the end post at your end.
After that it's you sighting in from behind the last line post going towards the far end. So you'd move to the second line post and sight in the third looking down line.
If the height is uneven you can temporary some height posts just a tad out of your fence line to help you gauge height. Do have them out of line enough to not confuse you and you start sighting in to them.
Once you get used to what you're wanting to see when the helper is got the post where you want it then you can start doing what I do, backsight.
I'm moving the post just like the helper, plumb, in and out of line. But I'm looking for the same picture you saw when sighting in the helper.
The key to this is to get the post where you want it and then go back to the previous post and sight back down the line to the target post to verify the location is correct.
The reason there isn't many fencewomen isn't because of sexual bias. And it isn't because they're not tough. You don't know tough until you've seen woman tough.
It's because there isn't many books out there explaining how to do fencing the way the pros do. If you've ever done a project with a woman I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. If the way you're doing something isn't like the way they read it being done then you're doing it wrong. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Now, StevenPaul, if you look down your line and you feel like the next one will be better, you've got what it takes to be a fenceman.
I welded up that line I was so proud of yesterday. I was emotionally sick by the end of the day. It was only a week between setting and welding. But in that week we seven plus inches of rain. That affected the clay. Some of my posts moved, not a lot, most folks wouldn't have seen it. But what I thought of was my best line ever ended up being just another line.
I can't wait for the next oppportunity to do a thousand plus feet line. But this time I'm going to try to make it the best one ever.
It'd be a bear to die and not have done that.
