Sitting On The Fence

No, I’m not undecided. Come to think of it, neither am I physically sitting on the fence, in the strictly literal sense. But we are sort-of hanging around in the garden-to-be fence area of the yard.

Now that all the posts have been planted (with the exception of the four 3.0 metre-long entrance pergola posts), we are approaching the culmination of the project, although the amount of work to be done has probably progressed a bit this side or that of 50%.

 
(Above): This picture shows two 4.8 metre lengths of top rail fitted between post #1 and #5. The yellow stretch line is used as an indicator of levelness.

This phase of the project consists of (1) measuring, cutting to length and drilling fixing holes into the upper and lower fence 100x50 rails. The holes are countersunk to 22mm diameter and then bored through rail and post with a long 10mm bit. The rails and fitted to the true horizontal (where possible). The progress of this step includes painting all sides and edges (complete); cutting, drilling and fitting – about 30%; and (2) priming, painting and fitting the 150x25mm palings at 50mm intervals to the rails at a height about 50mm above natural ground level. This sub-task is at about 0.01% completion. 

(Above): We are using 160mm galvanised M10 bolts to fix the rails to the posts.

(Above): A view of some of the 20-odd rail poles,the short ones being 4.8 metres whilst the longer ones are 6.00 metres long. The are all painted in the green colour Karaka.