[mantra-multi][mantra-column width=”1/2″] Day Two of rebuilding the fence went pretty damn well actually.
Keeping the posts in both a straight line and vertically level was the hard part. I used a string line between the two remaining posts at each end and followed it down. I did try using my small plastic Post level guide (shaped like an L, you clamp it to the post and can see the level on both sides at once), but I found it was easier to simply clamp my straight level to the side of the posts and go at it that way.
Naturally, when I got to the last post I was short a bag of cement, cue the quick trip to Bunnings! All up I used 8 bags of quik-set. One larger hole took 3 bags, but 2 was fine on the others. I think the original fencers just used the one bag for each. I think this one will stay up a lot longer than 8 years.
So now all 4 new posts are in place and cemented in, we’ll need a hurricane to knock them over now! (Fortunately Hurricanes are rare in these parts, I think it’s been about 700 years since the last…)
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Hopefully I’ve put them all back within a few mm of where the old posts where, I plan on just flipping the sections of paling off of the ground and fixing them onto the posts, I don’t really want to have to rebuild those sections. But if I’ve put a post too far left or right of where it used to be, the sections won’t link up properly and I’ll have no choice but to rebuild them, I find out tomorrow! The tension is killing me!
So far the whole repair has cost only $120, if all goes well, it won’t cost anything else either.