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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 …<\/p>\n
… well, I got one of them to work, and the next two should go a lot faster.<\/p>\n
So about another 3-4 hours of beam work, then the pickets, then the gates.<\/p>\n
Racing the snow …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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