After finishing up the chicken yard fence in its entirety, my next move was to start getting the stage set for erecting the eastern perimeter fence. This fence line would create a narrow patch of land that will serve as our new firewood storage site. The firewood will be stored at the back of the area, starting against the north fence. The existing firewood will be staged at the back moving out, with new wood stacked working our way out towards the driveway. I will lay down gravel all the way back through here, blemding the ground with the rest of the driveway/midway area so as to not have to worry about grass or other landscaping issues. Pallets will be laid on opposite sides of the area, creating a central corridor to allow us to navigate the wheelbarrow through for collecting or depositing firewood.
Anyway, I had to get things started by drilling post holes with the gas auger, working my way all the way down to the edge of the garden area. From there I was able to drop the posts in the holes, fill them in with concrete and make sure they were plumb. Now I did run into a sorta stupid issue as I closed in on the edge of the garden fence. The eastern fence line ran right against where I have the burn/brush pile staged at. And it is topped off with a bunch of trash, waiting for me to chop up some weed trees or other foliage to toss on top of the pile in order for the garbage to consume the material. Either way I can't sink a post right here as I would have to move the garbage and the ash mound out of the way. All I could do at this point was gauge where the posts would go in this area and skip over to the edge of the garden fence, putting a post in at the corner of said fence since this will be a junction point for thr branch off that will be the north side of the garden fence when I do start setting it up. The one post that will go at this spot right in front of the burn pile will actually be one of the posts for holding the back gate that will be set up to allow egress through the back end of the midway for purposes such as pulling trailers around to move them around the other side of the compound. There will be another set of gates on the southeast end of the fence line for the same use, effectively turning this area into a turn around for trailers if need be. A post was sunk at the corner and the extra post I had left was sunk along the garden fence line just to get that run started. As can be noted in the above picture, to the left there is a post end showing. This end is where another post will need to go as the gate opening will be 10ft wide to allow for the passing of our larger trucks and trailers. Each half of fence will be 5ft long, making for a 10ft wide opening. I will more than likely use 6x6 posts for the gates versus the landscape timbers but even then I will end up having to put some kind of casters on the open ends of each gate to support the weight and keep the gates from sagging and distorting the posts in the process. The last thing I did was add another post at the beginning of the eastern fence line. Since I had an extra fence panel, I was able to gauge how the panel would sit against the tree that serves as the northeast corner of the perimeter fence. The contours of the tree prevent me from easily attaching the end of the panel to the tree in a solid manner so I endef up drilling a post hole in the ground a couple feet from the tree to sink a post that will hold the fence panel 1/3 of the way from the tree end. I can trim the panel or add material or whatever in order to fill any gaps made by thr end of the panel mating to the tree. At this point the next thing for me is to get the fence panel attached to the tree and get the corner completly closed in as there will be some gaps between the ends of the fence and the tree trunk. At the same time I will be spreading gravel starting in the back so I can get the new firewood area set up so I can start moving the firewood all the way to the back. This will allow me to dismantle the old firewood shed and pull up any rotted pallets before I start putting up fence panels to complete this segment of the eastern fence line. Once the panels go up the area will be completely closed in and where the firewood sits currently will not allow for any traffic through to the back. The work continues.
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