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It took several hours riding a 1-man auger to get these holes drilled - apparently, the farmer who o...

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The hole by the house was the worst because the auger kept hitting the slab, and every time it bound...

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That pile of aluminum I-beams is just a fraction of the junk I need to get stored, which is why I'm ...

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I'll be the only house with a fence at the front, and the only one with an 8' fence in the front yar...

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It'll come up to the soffit, so I can get away with just about anything inside it.

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I had originally planned to replace the boards on the neighbor's fence with 8-footers, but since he'...

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Now for the gate poles...

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I have to miss my phone & cable lines when I drill the holes for the gate poles.

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FIrst try & I nailed the cable DEAD center! Fortunately, the ground is so hard that I saw it before...

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The little part. I might brace it onto the house later.

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The big part. It's braced onto the neighbor's fence in 2 places.

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It's actually bigger than it looks here. If I really wanted to, I could probably get 3 Broncos in h...

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This puts it into better perspective. I was worried about the neighbors complaining, but they've al...

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The grass shows how long it took me to get the gate frames built & hung. Steel is certainly sturdie...

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The weight of the frames alone affected the poles much more than I expected, but I had always planne...

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It's big, but it's big.

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Yeah, it's big.

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Today, we stained it. It's been dry for the past few days, and it was a little windy, but warm & cl...

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This is Behr Premium Redwood stain & a Wagner ControlSpray. Nice hairdo, huh?

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It went a LOT faster than we expected, but we used more stain than we probably should have.

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Uh oh... She caught me taking a picture of her!

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The outside went a lot faster than the inside, and took a LOT less stain.

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The outside went a lot faster than the inside, and took a LOT less stain.

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The outside went a lot faster than the inside, and took a LOT less stain.

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I have just enough stain left to shoot that little part from the neighbor's back yard when I get my ...