How not to install fence panels

[geoff]

Do you have to buy tickets for this entertainment?

[Djornsk]

I'm surprised he would want to mess with panels because open boards with arris rails would be easier and match the far fence.

j

[Lobster]

I do hope you're going to keep us updated with more pictures as things progress

David

[ARWadsworth]

I am sure when he fits the panels they will be worthy of a photo.

[ARWadsworth]

How would he get the brackets to line up?

[Matty F]

Maybe I do fences wrong, but I like to space the palings evenly between the posts. The posts are sometimes different distances apart because they have to be. I use a calculator to space the palings evenly. Divide the distance betwen the posts by the number of palings

+1, i.e. not rocket science. Most tradesmen make all the palings the same distance apart, so next to each post there is a larger or smaller gap. They even seem surprised that there is another way of doing the spacing.

My most recent fence:

week yet another person couldn't figure out how to open either of the two gates. The latch on the left hand gate is the same as most gates around here.

[Tim Lamb]

OK I'll buy it:-)

You lift the left hand end of the gate. The top hinge is slotted allowing the gate to move past the stop post?

We use what are called New Zealand gates here. Where wide field entrances are needed for moving livestock a *flying fence* section is made just short of the space between the posts and secured at one end. The other end is secured by loops of wire fixed to the stationary post which accept the bottom of the flying post allowing the wire to be strained tight and secured by the top loop.

regards

[Matty F]

The left hand small gate has on ordinary gate latch on the right hand side - the kind that vast numbers of gate have:

that gate opens inwards and away from the large gate.

Since there is nowhere for the large gate to swing, obviously it slides. It is too flimsy to swing anyway. Obviously it won't slide past the small gate, so it slides to the right. There is no catch on it yet - just grab the gate and pull it to the right. It slides behind the fence on the right. This all has the added benefit that I get fewer annoying people trying to sell me something.

[Jules Richardson]

Top lawn for playing cricket on, though.

[ARWadsworth]

Give me a week or two and I'll dig out the video of my van getting vandalised.

[ARWadsworth]

OK. I am now uploading a CCTV video from this afternoon onto Youtube of him and two mates fitting some of the panels. However the ETA is 10 hours. I suppose it goes without saying that the fence looks charming.

Here's a couple of photos until the video is ready

[Baz]

Well, a blind man would be pleased to see it. Has a spirit level been involved yet? (I think I know the answer.)

Baz

[brass monkey]

He'll save a fortune on booze.

[The Medway Handyman]

However - I have invented a solution - the rubber fence panel!

[ARWadsworth]

I have managed to get some videos onto YouTube. It was a complete PITA due to dropped links etc. I ended up converting the videos and losing the quality. So I now have the full installation of the panels recorded on CCTV. More time is spent with hands in pockets than the fitting of the panels and there is not a spirt level in sight.

Some gravel boards were raised (and then lowered by jumping on them) and one fence post was removed. Personally I would have given the job to the dog that was running around the garden.

Fence1

?v=gw3tNA-TFAcNB Fence 2 may not work until about midnight (and if the upload fails I will re post a link to it)

Fence 3

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[Skipweasel]

Needs Yakkety Sax in the background.

[Frank Erskine]

the streets.

[Mark]

would that be the same dog that you use to cut your grass ? ;(

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[ARWadsworth]

Well the next door but one neighbours are going to the garden centre on Saturday to buy some ivy. They are going to plant it against the fence so that they do not have to look at it.

[Tim Streater]

I haven't followed this thread - but is this your fence? I'd object to someone growing ivy up mine due to the damage it can do over time. SWMBO recommends virginia creeper, very pretty.