During this session I worked on installing a couple more spans of fencing over the back end of the garden as well as dropped a couple of trees and cleaned up the area that used to be the dog yard. Since this was over a weekend day, I had plenty of time to do this as I had all day.
First off was the garden fence. As usual with this portion of the fence I had to get some 2x4's and a bunch of pickets. I started off with installing the 2x4's, using a level to get the boards horizontal prior to nailing them up all the way. Of course since the posts seem to never be perfectly set at 8ft spacing, the ends of the boards never sit like they need to. I end up having to add some cuts of 2x4's to serve as extension boards to be able to hold the ends of the main 2x4's. With the boards nailed in place across two spans of the fence, it was time for the pickets. We picked up 45 pickets on this latest batch. There should be enough pickets to be able to cover the two spans and maybe have some extra for starting the next span of fence. It didn't take long to nail up the pickets. Other than the quick reloads of brads into the smaller nail gun, putting up the pickets went pretty fast. When I got through covering the two spans of fence I still had probably 5 or so pickets left over. While this isn't enough to cover a complete section, I will still need to get a couple of 2x4's to at least get another span set up so I can nail up those few pickets that are left over so I can be off to a start with the next installment of fence building. Its hard to see in the previous pic but there are only two more posts that need to be added to complete the run of fencing. The two posts will be close together, but if I really wanted to I could just put one post in the ground and instead of 8ft 2x4's I can just get a couple of 10 or 12 ft boards to cover the final span of fencing. I plan on getting a couple of 8ft 2x4's for the next section so I can finish using up the remaining pickets, but with that, to finish this fence I will need one post and a couple of 10 or 12ft boards if I go that route. Of course I will need pickets, probably about 30-35 pickets. Once I get those boards and posts and install them I will officially be done with the rear section of the garden fence. The next thing I did was clean up the old dog yard area. Besides moving the feeder dog house and dismantling the dog lease/cable assembly I set up earlier there was also removing the automatic watering dish and capping the water since it doesn't have a valve. After removing these things I decided to cut down a couple of trees that were in the immediate area where the dog yard was. One of the trees was a dead section of pine trunk that wasn't high enough to concerned with it falling on something like a car or the storage trailer. I dropped it pretty fast then commenced to chopping the trunk into smaller sections like what I would stick in the wood stove as is. Since the tree was rotted the trunk was easy to cut through, since it was already seasoned. The other tree is a larger weed tree, but it wasn't larger as far as height. It was just thick with branches and foliage. After bringing the tree down I had to spend several moments afterward cutting the branches down into manageable pieces that I could stack up at the burn pile site. After multiple trips from the downed tree to the burn pile, I managed to get everything stacked up as intended. This included the trunk as I wasn't even feeling like trying to cut the trunk into manageable pieces for use as firewood in the wood stove or elsewhere. I was getting to the point of being a little too tired to care about that small amount of wood so everything went on the burn pile. Of course all of the foliage will have to dry out before I try to fire the pile since green shit takes a lot more effort to burn. As far as the plans for the old dog yard area, I planned on setting up one of the portable garage frames for use as a storage structure for the remaining scrap metal and wood and PVC pipe that is currently stacked on the homemade racks along the fence line. Doing this will allow me to remove those racks to clean up the fence line more and compress the storage space some more to make room for other possible things, or maybe nothing at all. Maybe just squeezing these racks into a floor plan that can be covered by the 10x20 garage frame will be enough to make things even more neater. I do plan on using the other portable garage frame as an actual garage structure for storing things like the go kart and lawn equipment among other heavy tools like the cement mixer, etc. The only other thing left to address would be the rack holding all of the old auto parts.
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