Greetings!
I need a bunch of slats to extend a fence around SWMBO's garden.
The short story is that I need a bunch of 6' x 4" x 1/2" rough cut pressure treated slats. That's the actual size of each slat.
Does anybody know where I can get that size stock - for a reasonable price? I tried a couple of local lumber yards and nobody carries anything that thin.
The longer story is this:
The company who manufactured my existing fence appears to be out of business. It was either "Four Guys Lumber" or "Five Guys Lumber" or "Four Guys Fencing" or "Five Guys Fencing" or something like that - it's been 20 or so years since I installed the fence.
When I bought the original fence from them, I ordered a bunch of extra slats to build a matching 2' fence to put along the back of SWMBO's garden which runs along the side of my driveway. I now need to extend that fence another 12'.
For the current project I need about 45 2' slats. I'd like to get a bunch of 6' or 8' slats so I can replace some broken slats on the original fence as well as cut them down into 2' slats for the garden.
Does anybody know of a source for this material?
I suppose another option is to rip and then resaw some wider and thicker boards, but obviously there would be a lot of waste. I'm also not sure about the best method to resaw the boards.
I have a 10" belt driven table saw and a 10" low-end band saw. The band will just allow 4" of stock to be resawed.
If I use the table saw, I'd have to resaw the boards "twice" since the blade won't extend 4" above the table. How unsafe would it be to try and resaw a bunch of 2' sections down to 1/2" using a "two pass" method?
If I wanted to use the band saw, what size blade should I use? I tried a old 1/2" 14-TPI blade on a 3/4" PT board ripped to 4" but it's so dull that the saw basically ground to a stop. The board was also wet, so that may have been part of the problem.
I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Thanks!