We backfill the post holes with gravel and they are set in the ground! We are just using treated 4x4 posts, 10 feet long.įor the posts not being held up by the house or garage, we use scrap 2x4 boards to brace just right so we can backfill. Center posts are placed in the ground plumb and square with the outside posts. This gives us known points for our fence.Īnd then we run a string line between the posts attached to the house and garage to make sure our fence is straight. And then we attach the side posts plumb and level to the garage walls. So first we put the posts in next to the garage and house. So Grandpa Tim and I, we are on our own - and I've never built a fence like this. Īnd then a little drilling mid air and the gravel is out of the hole!Īnd then after the holes are drilled, the Ram gets the flu. count the shovel-fulls of gravel we don't have to shovel out. So the Ram stops drilling and carefully brings the giant drill bit up.Īnyone who has every shoveled gravel will appreciate this. Now there's definitely going to be some shoveling involved in this operation, but we are going to get our $300 bucks out of that skidsteer. We basically found the general spot we wanted each fence post to go. We had rented for $300 a day a skidsteer to help with the landscaping and it came with a huge drill bit that just fits on and gets a pin to hold in place. So this may be old stuff to you - but I'm pretty excited - today, I'm getting a junk drawer for my yard! God kinda takes care of that with huge trees and most people own large parcels of land. Now up here in remotish Alaska, there's not a whole lot of privacy fence building. I'll be throwing stuff over the fence too. So I thought, what if we built a privacy fence between the garage and house, and then when Mom says "Clean the yard!" it means throw everything over the fence. I want to be able to come home and not feel like I need to hop out of the car and find somewhere to put kid toys and bicycles and garden hoses and wheelbarrows. I want to be able to drive up in my yard and not see any clutter. You know we've been spending the last couple weeks taking care of some loose ends on massive project number #1 (aka our DIY house) that got put on hold when we decided hey, let's take on even more massive project #2 (DIYing our Mom's a duplex dubbed the Momplex).Īfter we poured the concrete sidewalks and a pad in front of the garage - what a luxury, sidewalks in remotish Alaska!!! - and then filled in around the sidewalks with top soil for new grass, there was one more thing that I desperately wanted.
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