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 ...
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This is what I'm aiming for.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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This is the last day it'll look like this.
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I set these first so they'd be strong enough when I hang the gates.
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I set these first so they'd be strong enough when I hang the gates.
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I bruised my butt riding that damned auger for 5 hours.
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I bruised my butt riding that damned auger for 5 hours.
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I bruised my butt riding that damned auger for 5 hours.
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When the blisters go down, I'll think about drilling the holes for this section.
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I set the first 5 posts last night & put a few stringers on today.
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The rest of the posts are set, and they're about to get concreted in.
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All the stringers are up, and I'm going to stain everything before the planks go on.
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All the stringers are up, and I'm going to stain everything before the planks go on.
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All the stringers are up, and I'm going to stain everything before the planks go on.
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All the stringers are up, and I'm going to stain everything before the planks go on.
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These planks are for the gates, which are under construction.
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The gates took a while because of the lap joints, and all these planks were spread out for a day to ...
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All these planks were spread out for a day to dry before staining.
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It only took about 3 hours to hang the rest of the planks, but most only have 2 screws for now.
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The gates came out better than I thought, and this may be the first time I've been really happy with...
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The gates came out better than I thought, and this may be the first time I've been really happy with...
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The black spots are some heavy mildew, but I'm hoping they'll fade fast.
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The black spots are some heavy mildew, but I'm hoping they'll fade fast.
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Now I get to start over on the back section...

***UPDATE***
Turns out the dirt there is too unst...
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