Finally got back around to working on the fence today. Replaced the rough-cut cedar with finished-cut redwood. Got about half of the beams put up in front. Ran into two problems.
1. If you buy 8′ beams, but have 6′ spaces, it doesn’t all average out. Instead, you end up with a lot of 2′ leftovers. This means I will probably run out of 2x4s before I’m done.
2. The bevel at the corner of the fence is turning out to be a bit more difficult than I’d originally thought. That’s because the width between two 4×4 posts at an angle is less than the width of each post (or of a 2×4). So I had to change my beams around to vertical, not horizontal. Then I had to flatten out one side of the hangers, and then …
… well, I got one of them to work, and the next two should go a lot faster.
So about another 3-4 hours of beam work, then the pickets, then the gates.
Racing the snow …