For a while now it's been difficult finding the building materials for setting up wood fences. Not sure why but the cheap pressure treated pickets as well as the whole finished panels are few and far between. Because of this we end up grabbing what we can when its available since we don't know when it may become available. Well sometimes you have to take what you can get and in this case, what we was able to get was some 8ft pickets instead of the normal 6ft pickets we typically get.
Even though these boards were a little more than the standard 6ft boards, they were available. So the ole lady ended up grabbing 15 of these boards just to get a little farther on the completion of the chicken yard fence. I figured that I would trim these boards down to the 6ft length needed and save the cut offs for other miscellaneous uses later on. After taking the measurement of one board I was able to follow suit in getting the other boards cut. I would stack four boards with one marked then cut through all of the boards simultaneously. When I tacked up the boards I would take the last board and use it as a reference to cut the next set of boards. After repeating this process I managed to get all the boards cut and tacked up, finishing more of the chicken yard fence. After this I'm left with a little better than one more span of fence to cover up with pickets. As stated before it wasn't total loss. The extra boards cut from the pickets are about 5/8" thick and 6" wide. I can put these boards to use in a number of ways for different projects around here. Of course I will be doing my best to use these boards as I don't want them just laying around like a lot of the other salvage materials. Also being pressure treated at least this wood will last better than regular thin boards.
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