Fence Building Part II

This fence building is really hard work.  We rented that power post hole digger for $75 a day but we still had to hand dig out all the holes, take out rocks and roots.  For this we used a shovel, manual post hole digger and a bull prick, a large metal pole that weighs 25 or 30 pounds.  Using that to loosen the soil and rocks will take it's toll on your arms.   We spent 8 hours today stretching fence and finishing posts.

This is a handy tool when putting in posts to make sure they are level.

When putting up wire fencing you have to have a fence stretcher like this. 

We rented this one from Hertz for $8 a day.  You can make one by using a board that you attach to the end of the fence and use a come a long to pull it tight.  This was pretty cheap and easy, we just attached it to the suburban.

The corner posts were set in concrete and cross braced.

Now, I can't stress enough that if you measure, measure twice and then again for good measure.  Either one of the rolls of fence was short or I measured it wrong.

We were using two 100' foot sections and it was going to be close but it looked like we were going to just make it. 

It's hard to tell here in the picture but the fence came just up to the post. There was no way to attach it.  We stretched and stretched and could only just come up to the post. 

We talked about putting a gate there, or splicing the fence but in the end we moved the post. 

It was dark by the time we finished so I have no pictures of the final east side of the fence.  I am starting to really stiffen up........I'm going to be sore tomorrow! 

Now we have the west side of the gate to finish next week.