Wife's pal is putting a fence in her back garden, she was saying she wanted a "ranch style" fence (sure that's the one with horizontal rails). She had a professional quote of £1400 for putting it in she feels this is far too much, now her husband is not afraid of a bit of graft so they have decided to do it themselves, they know the basics but does anyone know of a site that gives step by step instructions so they could look out for any gotchas.
Ranch fencing how to
Jul 11, 2006
6 Replies
"soup" wrote;
General fence building advice here:
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examples put ranch fencing in Google images.
Either buy or rent a manual post hole borer - if you live in Surrey could possibly loan you one - it saves time ground disturbance and concrete
PhilC
Wickes do a post hole Digger for about £15 similar to the
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16835
Brilliant piece of kit.
I was thinking more of item number 31907
PhilC
Nice, but ait of a small hole for a 4x4 isn't it?
Ben
I would suggest hiring a motorised one like this:
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for a weekend. Manual ones are OK if you are only sinking a few posts.
John
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