Fun at work

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The posts standing up in the background are my my spotters. I do everything by eye. So I need something to sight down, spotters. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The auger is a twelve incher and this is the first withdrawl.

 

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Second withdrawl and now the account is almost empty. Actually I come back with manual post hole diggers to get any stuff left in the hole. I'm sorta particular about dirt in the hole. When the hole is a tad over three feet deep you can understand why I came up with my backwards diggers for cleaning.

 

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This is a gate post hole. So I changed over to a sixteen inch auger and when I'm done the hole will be so close to eight feet deep you won't know it isn't, if it isn't.

 

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I'm sure some have gotten out their scales and did some quick math. They've decided it would be impossible for that auger to go to eight feet without an extension.

They are wrong.

 

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Check it out.

 

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That's what you call driving it home.

 

[Bird]

<font color="blue">( Check it out )</font>

Uh, check what out? Did that last clap of thunder than made me jump cause you to hit the "continue" key before you included an attachment? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Oops, I see you got it edited to include the attachment. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

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Then of course there are always the inspectors looking for bugs.

 

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Sometimes you get lucky in life. If you're really really lucky you get to radius' that is more like an ellipse.

Of course the hard thing is like all things hard, getting started. Since I do it by myself I try to find the easiest way. For me the easiest way to lay out a large radius if I can't pull it from a center point is with a water hose.

I lay out the water hose where I want the fence holes to be and then I mark it out. That is the easy part.

Here I have the road and it provides me with two challenges. The first of course is the radius isn't a radius as such. Secondly I have the pavement being as irregular as any anarchist.

So I laid out the water hose where it gave me what I thought was a consistant look.

Setting the posts is another challenge. It isn't as easy as just putting them in the middle of the hole and them concreting them in. An inch one way or another on a slow radius like this will not only affect one post, it'll affect about three.

There's nothing uglier than seeing a radius that weaves in and out in a fence line. It says the person who installed it either didn't know or even worse, they didn't care.

So when you are offered the opportunity to do something difficult that should require skill and dedication you are lucky. Yesterday I got lucky.

 

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Here's a shot of a section completed the other day. Right by the telephone pedestal is where I cut the water main. Man, that was fun. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I know it appears the line is staggered. But that's okay in this instance.