Politics aside how is everyone doing ?
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I built my back yard fence 30 years ago. Time and weather has taken its toll, and I’m rebuilding it. I did a 4 ft section a couple days ago where there used to be a gate, and today I did an 8 ft section next to it.
The easy thing to do would be to simply replace the vertical cedar fence boards, but no. My back yard is on a slope, and I have decided to replace all the horizontal rails using treated wood. I’ve also decided to step the fence rather than to simply follow the slope. I’m installing a treated board at the bottom in between the posts, and I’m extending the posts height by attaching lengths of 2x4 to them so that each step has a level top. When the vertical cedar boards are installed, they cover up the posts and the extensions giving it a neat appearance.
Choosing to do it this way is time consuming and a lot more expensive. There’s a lot more measuring and cutting and fitting. Plus, I’m 65, not 35, and I work a lot slower. But the first two panels look good.
Damn I’m sore! I’m self medicating with a hot pad, a couple Advil, and some beer, and on my couch watching an old western on TV.
I’ll take some pictures tomorrow so all that makes more sense.
Seth
The easy thing to do would be to simply replace the vertical cedar fence boards, but no. My back yard is on a slope, and I have decided to replace all the horizontal rails using treated wood. I’ve also decided to step the fence rather than to simply follow the slope. I’m installing a treated board at the bottom in between the posts, and I’m extending the posts height by attaching lengths of 2x4 to them so that each step has a level top. When the vertical cedar boards are installed, they cover up the posts and the extensions giving it a neat appearance.
Choosing to do it this way is time consuming and a lot more expensive. There’s a lot more measuring and cutting and fitting. Plus, I’m 65, not 35, and I work a lot slower. But the first two panels look good.
Damn I’m sore! I’m self medicating with a hot pad, a couple Advil, and some beer, and on my couch watching an old western on TV.
I’ll take some pictures tomorrow so all that makes more sense.
Seth
So this one shows the stepped method I'm using, and you can see the old fence which just followed the slope.
This shows the 2x4 extension to the post which makes stepping the fence possible without having to pull out all the old posts and install new ones. Those pressure treated posts I installed 30 years ago have held up remarkably well. You can also see the treated wood I installed at the bottom between the posts. None of the vertical fence boards will be touching the ground which is what causes them to rot from the ground up.
Most of my old fence looks like this at the bottom.
It's 100 feet of fence all together, and I've done 12 feet of it. I'm going to work on it one 8-ft panel at a time as time and weather permits.
This shows the 2x4 extension to the post which makes stepping the fence possible without having to pull out all the old posts and install new ones. Those pressure treated posts I installed 30 years ago have held up remarkably well. You can also see the treated wood I installed at the bottom between the posts. None of the vertical fence boards will be touching the ground which is what causes them to rot from the ground up.
Most of my old fence looks like this at the bottom.
It's 100 feet of fence all together, and I've done 12 feet of it. I'm going to work on it one 8-ft panel at a time as time and weather permits.
Looks good Seth. Well done
My neighbour had her fence on the other side done recently in colorbond. Like you she has a slight slope and the fencers did something similar to you except they used a treated pine sleeper that was rated to be buried underground across the bottom. As she had a planted garden bed along the fence, most of it is hidden behind plants and mulch except for a few high points. It looks great.
My neighbour had her fence on the other side done recently in colorbond. Like you she has a slight slope and the fencers did something similar to you except they used a treated pine sleeper that was rated to be buried underground across the bottom. As she had a planted garden bed along the fence, most of it is hidden behind plants and mulch except for a few high points. It looks great.
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Thanks guys.
You know what's weird?
I have to disassemble the old fence as I go. 30 years ago, I installed every piece of wood, and I hammered in every nail.
I get a hard to define feeling as I pull nails out of the old fence and take it apart. Each piece of wood and each nail was effort I expended 30 years ago. I guess perhaps it's a recognition of the passage of time and that nothing lasts forever. When I drove in those nails, I was still young, and my children were 5 and 2.
My wife says I'm getting more emotional as I age ...
You know what's weird?
I have to disassemble the old fence as I go. 30 years ago, I installed every piece of wood, and I hammered in every nail.
I get a hard to define feeling as I pull nails out of the old fence and take it apart. Each piece of wood and each nail was effort I expended 30 years ago. I guess perhaps it's a recognition of the passage of time and that nothing lasts forever. When I drove in those nails, I was still young, and my children were 5 and 2.
My wife says I'm getting more emotional as I age ...
so its not just you ... i never used to cry and now the slightest thing will set me off. Watching a movie, listening to some sob story .. especially so if kids are involved.
It’s snowing here.
I am looking at a block of land in Tassie. Not high enough to get snow, maybe the odd flurry, but I bet the odd winter night will get under 0°C! Cold enough for me! I remember snow from childhood in Holland—wet, cold, slippery stuff, good only on Christmass cards!
I think it's beautiful.
Wadda ya mean....'if.' It self evidently fuqqing is!
So....why draw the fucking diagram that way....demonstrably showing that 'a' is dominant? Fucking esoteric academic crap. Why the pretend......i.e. ~ why not say "Let's pretend, despite what your eyes tell you, that 'a' is not actually what it looks like?" No wonder my mind just went blank in Senior Maths. This crap really shits me.
DonDeeHippy
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it's just a formula like Pi......3.14 etc etc
the formula make spirals like sea shells and other shapes
so basically the formula is 1.62... (1.6180339887498948482 etc etc )
if A is 162 and B is 100
A + B is 262
262divided by 162 equals 1.62
now for the fun part
162 divided by 100 equals 1.62
so A is 1.62 times bigger than B
and A+B is 1.62 times bigger than A
hope that makes it clear as mud....
i knew 1.62 wasn't quite and had to look up the actual number.....
in binary it's very elegant
why they just didn't say that A has to be 1.62 times bigger than b I don't know.......
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