Project Fence Phase 3 - Educated Guesses, Or Just Guesses

We continued on the fence this week working Wednesday evening and Saturday morning. Wednesday, we put the top rail on the right fence and then put the gate posts in for the double gate on the other side, as well as put one section of top rail on. We ran into a few issues. The first was the fact that tying into our neighbors fence was not really possible since it was a corner post for them and had 4 tension bands at the top of the post. We love our neighbors though and they said they didn't care if we took the cap off to put our top rail there and then somehow glue the post topper back on. So, that's what we did. The next issue was the double gate was missing the latch. Instead of wasting time waiting, we just did our best guess of where the latch would hit just right. Eeesh. Saturday, we found we were DEAD ON with the latch! We put the last two posts up, did the top rail for it, finished the double gate and did the big section of chainlink on the opposite side. -T

Be sure you notice Todd's jeans!
After Todd sliced his leg working on the roof, his dad said,
"That's why you wear pants."
When my dad found out Todd had sliced his leg, he said,
"That's why you wear pants."
All this time I've never understood why my dad works out in the
yard--sweating profusely as we like to say--in jeans. Now we know. Thanks, Dads. You continue to teach us so much.
-L

Top Rail On

This is why we love our neighbors...a four foot fence wouldn't have worked if we had to go underneath.

Hmmm...I don't think it's level...this is us guesstimating

I always wondered what I would look like without a head and with a ghost behind me...now I know!

The single gate latch was 2 inches from the post, so...common sense said to do the double gate two inches from each other.




And on Saturday morning...we were right!
Putting up the chainlink

Detaching it at the end was rough - the instructions (which we read later) made it sound very easy. The way I did it was NOT easy and my thumbs were raw after this.

Just the tiny section to the house needs to be done and this side is finished!