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March 19, 2006

part of a privacy fence

We put up part of a privacy fence and mooshed most of what was the front yard into the back.

When we first got the house, one of the charming details was that the backyard was enclosed by a half-assed privacy fence with no gates. This was nice in a way, but weird with the full super-cans already in the backyard. Another funny detail was the the fence had been put up in such a haphazard fashion that the front run hit the house right in the middle of a window. We still don't have any gates, but we've done some good stuff to the fence this weekend.

We've enjoyed the limited security that the fence offered, but have been wanting to pull the front run forward ever since we moved in. There was a bunch of the yard that was cut into the front but wasn't really private or usable.

Over the course of the past 2 days, we put up a 39 foot run of fence across the front of the side yard. This let us knock over (all too easily) the old front of the fence and have a nice new giant back yard. This involved digging 6 3-foot holes using post-hole diggers, planting 6 9-foot 4x4s in cement in these holes, and then a day later attaching the panels. Each post took about 30 minutes to dig and plant; it took about an hour to hang all of the panels. This project was straight-forward physical labor with a bunch of measuring on top.

Whoever invented post-hole diggers was a freakin' genius.

Posted by john m at March 19, 2006 11:37 AM

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