Hypoid previously posted:
"Thanks for the big pictures!
If Oscar is happy (and contained), I am happy.
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Puppy is happy. First thing he did when he was let out into his backyard again was to pee on the new fence. I just took it as his seal of approval.
Fence took me a bit after your last visit. Nothing like hauling out all the welding equipment and gear just to have to haul it all back because of rain. That's sucks normally but for a guy with a bum back right not, it was very demoralizing. But as I stated earlier, I was all about beating this dang fence, even if the process killed me.
Got all the metal up and coated while continually staining boards. Yes, I stained everything before I put it up. Even stained all the through holes and counter bores in the cross boards.
Before:
After:
I hung the majority of the cross boards and trimmed all the hardware down so nothing would easily snag on them.
And once I had all the pickets stained, my wife and I had a "picket" party and had a bunch of friends over to help hang them all. Even with all the trimming to length, ripping down of a few boards per panel, and the touch up of staining each board required, it only took us an afternoon of work. But I did set up 3 different teams that started in different places. Had a guy on each team to measure, one to cut, and one to hang. And then had a team of people that was just staining. Worked really well. It's almost like I do this kind of stuff for a living
Couple photos from the hanging party:
And how it looked from my neighbor's side, yup he get's the "good" side: