Thanks fellas. Means a lot. I'm done with outside work. Now I can move inside into the air conditioning and do some work.
I've been there, it's an amazing place, his garage is more organized than my living room... :D Great job Donnie, looks awesome.
Ha....you should have seen it during the fence build. :D Could barely walk thru my side but its back to ship shape and everything is in it's place. Thanks man.
That is impressive Finch! Job well done. I suck at carpenter work, but I am really good at killing trees and getting them to the mill!
Nice job!! I have built a few of these in my day and they are not the easiest things to do in the world. Nice choice on the beer!! Always been my favorite. Nothing like a good cold New Castle.
nice! I am building a picket fence right now also...was pondering the inside or front mount for the cross beams. Liking the inside mount based on your pics. Mine is like a 10th of what you have there, I have my posts in, just need to get the cross beams up and add the pickets. Why so far apart on the pickets? I was planning on a 1/4-1/2" or so...but I have a LOT less then you had to do.
Thanks everyone! I guess there were a few reasons I chose the picket spacing I did. Its about the width of a picket. I didn't want the "privacy" look and kinda wanted the dog to be able to see through and for others to see into our yard. Another big reason was it was CHEAPER....pickets are expensive when you have to buy over 800. I spent $1400 in pickets alone. Thats a little less than half of what the entire project cost me. If I would have butted them together like a privacy fence...it would have cost $2800 for pickets. Also, I was pretty close in my picket calculations. 490 feet of fence multiplied by 12" = 5880 inches. 5880 inches divided by 7" (3.5" + 3.5") picket width & spacing width) = 840. I actually used 838. In case you're wondering I like to know these things. Btw....I think its a cleaner more streamlined look if you install the rails in between posts. That way you can directly nail a picket onto your posts. I just cut a couple measuring blocks (12") and clamped them against the two posts I was working between but with a little sticking out on the front side of the fence. Then I sat my 2x4 on top of those and held it tight against the posts. Marked it on each side following where the post and 2x4 met and then cut and nailed. Then I had two other measuring blocks (maybe 22" or something) that I put on top of the bottom rail and clamped them against the post with a little sticking out the front side as a lip for the top rail (same procedure for the bottom). Placed the top 2x4 on top of those, marked, cut, and nailed.
