Holy crap man I did my fence like this and paid $32 for 16’x36” panels. Nice looking fence though. Still cheaper than contracting it out. In total mine was around 90’ long with two gates and came to right around $600 total all in.
Yea I think a lot of it is about the exact style you want or the stores around you - I did see some bigger cheaper options through Tractor Supply but I don’t live near one and the style was slightly off from what I wanted - thinner gauge, raw silver color, and the squares were much bigger but for sure many options out there!
Nice fence, and thanks for the great video! A couple comments: -Digging manual post holes is possible, and really sucks. I just did this with a digger bar and clamshell digger - it takes forever and is pretty hard work. -I did treated 2"x4" rails horizontally with 1"x2" strips on either side of the wire all the way around to hold it in place. Extra materials, but the water treatment isn't compromised and it looks different but also good. -You're in southern California so I'm guessing it's less of a big deal, but when you cut treated wood you need to re-treat the cut ends. Especially along that ripped edge because the wood is no longer protected from water, and with the notch penetrating even deeper into the board you've got a pretty significant exposure to the elements / pests / etc.
Good to know about treated wood; i see myself, to some extent, replacing the wooden stretchers with new 2x4s in a few years and ill make sure to pre-finish the grooves; also drilling small drainage holes can help a lot as well for this. Cheers
Beautiful work, fence and talented to young man! This is the fence I'd like for my home in San Antonio, Texas...wish I could adopt you....Great-grandmom, Rosie
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u did rly well with the project it came out amazing , loving the video presentation and glad u r ok after that heat exhaustion, taking care of ur body is the number one rule and this big project remind us all to be kind to our bodies
i was undecided between cable railing or hog mesh, but yours looks nice i think i am going with hog style, but HD and Lowes have some bad reviews about these Wild Hog panel they rusting at the weld or when powder coating scratched off, they don't seem to be galvanized, they are also quite expensive at $66 for 3 ft x 6 ft......... I found at Tractor Supply, same 6 gauge, 4"x4" square at only $69 for 5 ft x 16 ft, and they are galvanized will be much more rust resistant, black looks nicer so i may use black rubber spray on them
Nice looking fence! I was contemplating something similar in a much less visible area, where I currently just have Tposts and wire fence. It doesn’t need to be “better”, but it would look better.
One issue you can run into, maybe not so much in Cal, is the bottom dado has no outlet for water. Water can pool in those slots and rot your wood. For the bottom stringer just slice it in two and pinch the hog wire. Then water runs right out the bottom. A little extra work as you have to screw the two pieces together, but not too much. Nice looking work.
Electrolytes electrolytes electrolytes replenishment when working outside in the heat of the day in SoCal. I don’t know where you are in SoCal , but there is a place in Claremont that sells a lot of stuff including hog or cattle panel. The place is called C&E. Otherwise, there is a tractor supply store in Norco. The project turned out to be awesome. 👏🏻
Yea I was doing Gatorade’s and Liquid IVs but it was clear that the heat just fully outpaced my body’s limits. It was all amplified by the black lawn fabric. Easily made it 10° hotter. Just brutal.
Be careful in the heat. Glad you're ok now though. To everyone, you MUST learn to work with the heat. No shame in getting shade and water every 30 minutes or so in heat like that. Especially in direct sunlight. Be careful out there and never stop making. 💪😎
yea - the heat, excessive work, and excess heat caused by the black fabric just completely overdid it for me; was no going back unfortunately once it hit
The only change I’d personally make is adding a dado to the posts in the ground to keep that hog wire in place just like you did for the top and bottom boards and really it’s to prevent the wire from bending and deforming plus it just looks great but other than that one minor change it’s beautiful, there’s just something about hog wire fencing that I can’t get over! In fact I want to add basically the same exact fence including height and spacing, for my garden to keep my bell pepper thief named Sawyer from plucking off the ones that I guess remind him of balls. And I just think it’s such a sleek, modern yet practical and cheap fence solution for smaller front yards and gardens, decking, etc. glad you recovered from heat stroke
That is actually a very good idea and i think the alternative less "committal" version of that is actually retroactively adding pressure treated strips on each side to squeeze it together which I am personally likely going to do in a few weeks to keep it straight. We fell in love with this look while on a trip in Austin and my hope is more people see this in my area and take it on - for only $1300 (and $0 in labor and hospital bills) it's a VERY sleek look. Good luck with your build and pesky friend!
Idk why but when I built my 6 ft fence I dug by hand. Next time getting an augur. If you didn’t have an augur you can use a dirt breaker bar. To loosen up hard impacted dry dirt
I did look into those - unfortunately the nearest Tractor Supply is 90 miles away and didn’t even carry those! I also just for some reason thought they looked a lot cheaper than the Home Depot ones but 100% a good budget friendly alternative
It’s not more expensive to do yourself, 16’ long cattle panels at tractor supply are $25. So $17.50 per 8’ without the wood. The wood for each 8’ section is a lot cheaper than $72.50, which is what it would need to cost to amount to $90 per like in the video. Doing yourself is almost always cheaper
In SoCal we have no access to those $40 units; having seen them though, they look cheap aesthetically, are not uniform, and are raw matte steel color versus the matte black look, and I have a hunch will rust given its galvanized steel. You get what you pay for - I paid for quality and aesthetics.
Going post to post with the fence panel leaves an extra step of straight cuts on the 16' fence panel. Many a DIY persons may not have the facility to cut.@@workshop_edits
And remember - if you are in part of the country that freezes, your hole needs to be deeper than the frontline. Probably 36” in the Midwest. A hole that deep will hold a 4x4 and at least a full bag of concrete mix.
16' x 50" panels are $31 at Tractor supply....not sure why those 8' sections you bought were $90....that's crazy high! you could have bought 3 16' panels for the same price....Were the sections you bought already wood framed?
I would reco half inch, and don't cut / space things too tight where the top and bottom stretcher s squeeze the fence panelling / bends it. With wood expanding and contracting - more space to have things floating prevents railings from warping or cracking since the steel won't move with it.
It’s not secured - it’s only secured between the horizontal ridges. But after 6 months one thing I’ve considered adding is vertical stretchers just to tie it together a little but it’s not needed. It would only help to keep the fence completely flat versus bowing slightly one way or another
I think all in for the fence it was $1000 for wood, fence, rocks, concrete, and hardware. And my own labor which as you can see nearly sent me to the hospital haha
Awesome!! Quick question... Regarding the dado that was cut on the bottom stringer to accept the hogwire fencing, would that dado just now be a place for water to sit and eventually ruin the piece? Asking because I don't have experience with it and honestly don't know. Looks great, though!
Technically yes. The way to avoid the issue which I didn’t film or talk about (my bad) is just to drill some relief holes for drainage. I was also told that the exposed wood is no longer treated so you might wanna put a sealant on it as back up.
if i lived where you do, id ask my local officials why there are water restrictions when the govt/military/nasa have the ability to make it rain. nice looking fence btw.
This is a great and very helpful video. What is the best way to increase the height of these styles of fence? I like these hug wire fences as they are pre-manufactured but I need a higher fence for my dog. Thank you for any suggestions.
I have the same issue. Personally, I will extend the 4x4 to allow another railing over the post and bridge 2x2 pt cuts of 6" every 2' oc to give it the extra height needed. Overall height of the fence will be 50".
