The first fence roll we did took us two Saturdays, the second roll took a full day. The third roll we finished off by the early afternoon. Last week, we were very surprised when we'd finished a full roll by lunch.
Since we'd only bought one roll, expecting it to take up the whole day, we ended up doing fence posts the rest of the day. Sawyer was begging to try out the post hole digger. I was skeptical at first, so I left him to it and went off to do other things. I was pleasantly surprised to come back and see that he'd accomplished quite a bit. Nothing like digging fence post holes to build up some muscle.
The problem we have is that we have 2 1/3 rolls left to do. The fencing material is expensive, so I don't want to have to buy that 1/3 roll. To fix this, we've been cutting corners and straightening up lines as much as possible to squeak out that last 100 feet.
Another thing we decided to try was making a double gate since we had the panels sitting around and each one is about 16 feet long. That's 32 feet + the 6 feet of spacer Holmes. Only 62 feet left to eat up.
We've been using cedars for fence posts and crossbars. Fortunately, we have an endless supply so we can put in as many as we can dig holes for. Fortunately, as well, we had no rock, only clay. It's sooo much easier digging fence post holes in clay. You can dig a 24" hole in about 5-10 minutes. Sawyer shows the tools of the trade below.
We had rainstorms on and off,throughout the day and were pretty muddy and bedraggled by the end. Sawyer is definitely looking like a mud farmer here. He was a good worker and put in a 10 hour day without complaint.
Ready to go home and relax in the recliner with and ice cold Diet Coke!
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