After having sunk a couple of posts in the ground along the new fence line at the back of the garden, I had enough material to be able to get a good start to that run of fence. I had more posts, some 2x4's and pickets with which to get some complete spans of fence put up. Just like with the chicken yard fence I only used two 2x4's for each section of fence versus three like the completed panels are made with. Since this length of fence is mainly for dividing the garden from the rest of the yard, it doesn't necessarily need to be super strong.
With three posts in the ground I was able to nail up the four boards necessary to cover the two spans of fence to accommodate the amount of pickets I had available. Of course with the nail guns all of this was done pretty fast so I had two spans of fence up in no time. Next on the list was sinking the rest of the posts that I had. With the auger, digging the holes for the posts went super fast. I measured out the points at 8ft intervals marking them prior to drilling them. After drilling them I set the posts in the ground. Just like with past posts, instead of mixing concrete for the holes I just poured the dry concrete around the posts then soaked the powder with water, filling in with more dry concrete as needed until the hole was over the level of the ground. After sinking the remaining posts in the ground I did more measuring and found that I only needed two more posts to complete the length of fencing at the back of the garden. At the end of the run there will be a short run of about 4ft from one post to the end post that will make up the perimeter fence. Since the fence is put up with just boards and pickets piece by piece, this will be acceptable, just measuring the length and cutting the 2x4's shorter to cover that smaller span. Once this length of fence is done I will move back over where the chicken yard fence and that corner where the two trucks are at and start sinking posts there so I can start hanging full panels to make up the perimeter fence. Things are surely coming together pretty fast.
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