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Hi
Just make a few more cuts and you will have missouri and something to sell on EBAY, or sell to someone visiting Texas from Missouri

charlie
 
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Ouch! Bet that hurt without even falling Harv /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Good news is you've got enough rock there for most of New England if Texas kicks you out /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( I was just thinking how it would feel to be down to the finishing touches on that rock and have it fracture on you.)</font>

That thought has crossed my mind also. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif In fact when the customer did a big gulp over the price that was one of my explanations. Not all my dreams are pollyanna-ish, sometimes reality strikes.

From an earlier post.....maybe we shouldn't even mention these things. We'll just have to call that one a prototype.

Good Luck,
Kevin
 
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Harv, I still like your work and we all know you really wanted to play with the tools again to make a new one /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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Don't ever suggest I don't make good concrete!

Or another title for that picture might be "in every life a little rain must fall." /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 

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It took about an hour yesterday morning for me to pull nine posts that I had set the night before. My son in law had came over to feed the concrete mixer.

He still works for MCI after all the cutbacks. And occcasionally he likes to work with me. So Wednesday evening he came to the job and put eleven mixer loads out. Each mixer load is one third of a cubic yard.

Now he could have went to the gym and not spent near the energy, not had any of the great conversation, "you'll get your second wind in a minute" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif and have paid instead of have gotten promised to be paid.

He fed the mixer while I set posts. It was a good two and a half hours work after work.

A little explanation is due.

Most people see a fence as just a fence. And if they're done right and in most situations that's true. But if you try to do the kinds of fencing I do each one is a statement. As a statement a fence has to be darn near perfect. If it isn't it stands out as wrong as well, say a politician in his acting like a coward in his youth and then in his old age sending others off to war.

One of the problems with this job has been property pins. Survey was last done in 73, 1973. For me that was a real problem. I'm putting in a very involved fence and it has to be in the right place. I don't want to drive by three years from now and my fence is completely out of whacks with the neighborhood.

I found the two front corner pins where the plat said they would be. I laid it out so the corners would jive with any neighboring fence in the future. I altered the radius for a couple of reasons. One was to put the power pole outside the fence. Another was to go through a double trunked tree instead of cutting off one trunk or the other.
 

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That was looking west from the big gate. Here's looking east and south.
 

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I don't know if you could see it in the picture but the far corner was set Wednesday evening. I took these pictures yesterday morning before the survey crew showed up.

Survey crew?

Yup, survey crew. I pointed out that I had found the pin they couldn't. They let me know that old plat and the old pin was in the wrong place.

In this photo look at the base of the tree. That yellow dillywhacker is the property pin in the right place. If you look over to the last hole that I'd dug you'll see a wood stake. That stake is where the old property pin resides.

So my fence was over into the neighbor's by nine to ten feet. It was also into the property about five feet.

To make it right. Have to make it right, not like there's another option, I had to pull the posts. This morning I'll redo the radius modifying it hopefully to where no one will ever know except us, you and me.

When you look at the fact that I bent severely four posts, wasted a yard of concrete, half day's labor installing the first time and another half moving it. That's a pain. But not near as painfull as driving by and seeing a mess from now on.

Here's a good shot of the bucket I made for the tractor to replace the wheelbarrows. It holds a half yard of concrete and is pretty well splash resistant. It allows me to pour the concrete in the holes without much hassle. Love that "not much hassle." In a fenceman's life property pins can do enough of that. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Like most of my tools it's able to many tasks. Here it's doing post pulling one oh one quite nicely thank you.
 

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The picture with the old and new property pins.
 

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Carnage after a massacre. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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