Fence Building - Part 1 (of Apparently >= 2)

We just started replacing a section of wood fence today. Now, I know that sounds exciting. Please, try to contain yourselves. "We" includes Ken, Kohnke, Drew, and me.

We started with this...


The first step was to take down the panels of old fence. That took all of 30 seconds, roughly. The second step was to remove the old uprights. Uprights number 3 came out with little effort. Uprights 1 and 2 were pretty difficult. I feel as though there were put there to mark a wood mine under our property. We kept digging, and we kept finding more and more and more wood. It looks as though the previous owners had a fence that was falling down, and so they just kept shoving more wood down there to brace up the failing fence. There was also some concrete down there. It was pretty interesting; and by interesting, I mean painful.

On top of that, one of the posts was a 10' post, sticking up only 5' out of the ground. Yeah, 5' of wood was buried in the ground. When Ken finally got it out, a little Chinese guy stuck his head up out of the ground and told us to stop shaking his fence in Shanghai.

Some concrete later, we have four new uprights. The concrete is drying right now. Then, we get to fill in the holes and finish it, which shouldn't be too horribly bad. So, we ended the day with this...


which was just about the time Amanda showed up :-)