Just had a new fence built...

[Fala]

Our back fence (and around the sides and the gate) is finally finished! Our poor cat who lives in the sunroom out back has been freaked out for 2 days now.

All surrounding neighbors have large dogs...the backdoor neighbors have 2 Pit Bulls...they're nice, but scary looking. lol They were all roaming around in our yard since the old fence was taken down.

The cat has been inside the house now ever since the project started. Poor thing was afraid to even go out and potty in her box in the sunroom.

yeesh. Anyway...it smells very CEDAR-Y out there now! Makes me think of Christmas....or a forest fire.

So...tonight...will I dream of Christmas? or nightmare about fire:.

Place your bets!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Our back fence (and around the sides and the gate) is finally finished! Our poor cat who lives in the sunroom out back has been freaked out for 2 days now.

All surrounding neighbors have large dogs...the backdoor neighbors have 2 Pit Bulls...they're nice, but scary looking. lol They were all roaming around in our yard since the old fence was taken down.

The cat has been inside the house now ever since the project started. Poor thing was afraid to even go out and potty in her box in the sunroom.

yeesh. Anyway...it smells very CEDAR-Y out there now! Makes me think of Christmas....or a forest fire.

So...tonight...will I dream of Christmas? or nightmare about fire:.

Place your bets!

Good fences make for good neighbors.

 

[Fala]

Good fences make for good neighbors.

Yeppers! Everybody is happy....even tho we are all really good friends.

Ann...there is no fence between us. I like it that way.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Yeppers! Everybody is happy....even tho we are all really good friends.

Ann...there is no fence between us. I like it that way.

Oh...I've got a fence. A huge one. Portable.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I grew up in small hamlet. We had no fences between properties for years. Kids and dogs roamed across all. Honestly, I'm trying to remember seeing outdoor cats. Dog territory. Open grassy lawns. Last place a cat wants to be with a dog coming or a pack. 4 or so.

First fence was a hedge and caused a ruckus. Another guy put one up for a HUGE mongrel dog of some sort, that just jumped over with chain and log. Now most if not all have a fence. Many combine with hedges.

As kids we roamed across the whole hamlet from its interior. Roads were for bicycles, foot just cut across properties.

200-300 people, no stores for 2 miles of country roads, an abattoir across the main highway. Which became empty real fast after 402 highway went through.

Good old days, fences not required.

 

[Fala]

Signs and fences........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVRGw7LhIOE


...just now re-watched this old clip. Damn....there's about 3 out of the 5 in that group that I wouldn't kick outta bed for eating crackers.

dayam. I'm so bad.

 

[Fala]

I grew up in small hamlet. We had no fences between properties for years. Kids and dogs roamed across all. Honestly, I'm trying to remember seeing outdoor cats. Dog territory. Open grassy lawns. Last place a cat wants to be with a dog coming or a pack. 4 or so.

First fence was a hedge and caused a ruckus. Another guy put one up for a HUGE mongrel dog of some sort, that just jumped over with chain and log. Now most if not all have a fence. Many combine with hedges.

As kids we roamed across the whole hamlet from its interior. Roads were for bicycles, foot just cut across properties.

200-300 people, no stores for 2 miles of country roads, an abattoir across the main highway. Which became empty real fast after 402 highway went through.

Good old days, fences not required.

Oh yes! I remember those days, Hard_Rom! What a great childhood that was!
Glad you experienced that!

 

[Hard_Rom]

Growing up country. No place to get in real trouble. Even when we got licences we didn't go to town until we all left home and got work in town. It was quite isolated. We could walk 2 miles in any direction without running into a village or the Thames River.

As a place to raise kids awesome.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

On the north end of my dad's farm was a 4 strand barb wire fence that ran thru virgin timber, a high creek bank and some of the nastiest burs and barbs on the planet, but it kept the cows in. It was probably 3 miles long. Fence laws are weird. The fence became in such disrepair that it needed to be replaced. The cost and maintenance is split between the land owners on either side. The guy on the other side of the fence didn't want anything to do with that, so an arbiter was brought in to "walk" the fence line.

That's pretty much what happens. We started at one end and started walking through mosquitoes and multi-flora rose bushes while the guy counted his paces, because a measuring tape was impossible to use.

After all that was done, we got to pull new barb wire thru that jungle and fix it. People don't think of things like that when they eat their steak.

 

[Hard_Rom]

People squabble over fence maintenance real bad in towns. Those rickety privacy fences. We have same rule. Split cost on fence maintenance. Had a quick Friday install of a central air to do. Then have rest of day off. No! Neighbours have to start getting out tape measures and squabbling over bylaws. Waste of a nice Friday afternoon!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Good fences make for good neighbors.

When we first came to Canada from England, where everything is either walled, fenced or hedged, we alienated our neighbours by putting in a cedar hedge. It was really to stop the local yobs from tearing through our yard on ski-doos.

 

[Hard_Rom]

When we first came to Canada from England, where everything is either walled, fenced or hedged, we alienated our neighbours by putting in a cedar hedge. It was really to stop the local yobs from tearing through our yard on ski-doos.

We came to Canada from England too. Hull. My dad drove an iron rod in beside the little pine tree the snowmobilers kept running over on front lawn. He got one one night. Torn the track right off it. Nothing the guy could do but drag on to road as my dad stood on porch and laughed his head off.

The guy we all hated on the corner eventually put up a fence diagonally across the corner of his property. I drove through it with my station wagon. The guy sitting on front hood snapped board that would have hit windshield. 3 guys on the roof thought it was a hoot. Wasn't going fast. Slow and deliberate.

Had to use varsol and pad to get redwood stain out of at that time light tan paintjob. Before police came around and interviewed me and looked at my car.

 

[doowdniw]

Going to redo the fence once the pool is put in. Probably go with 8' cedar board on board.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Fences are simple maintenance until posts go. Then a major job. Roof, furnace and fences can be biggest maintenance bills.

Live in the south, with a steel roof and no fences. Save thousands over twenty years. Tens of over fifty years.

 

[Fala]

Fences are simple maintenance until posts go. Then a major job. Roof, furnace and fences can be biggest maintenance bills.

Live in the south, with a steel roof and no fences. Save thousands over twenty years. Tens of over fifty years.

Yes! That's why we used metal posts this time. The last wood posts simply rotted off at the ground level.

We also used 8" pickets. The original fence was built by the home builder here and it was about as cheap as it could be.

I live in the South too! yeehaw!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Hypoxia]

Neighbors on one side let their dogs run loose, menacing us and others. After many complaints and thousands of dollars in fines, they spent thousands to put up a chain-link around their property, so we're visibly fenced on that side.

We had a wood fence built along the dirt road a couple years ago to block dust and peering eyes. We're now putting up a fence along our place's third side so we don't have to look at that neighbor's accumulating piles of stuff.

Fences are good. Too bad they cost so much.

 

[thør]

Neighbors on one side let their dogs run loose, menacing us and others. After many complaints and thousands of dollars in fines, they spent thousands to put up a chain-link around their property, so we're visibly fenced on that side.

We had a wood fence built along the dirt road a couple years ago to block dust and peering eyes. We're now putting up a fence along our place's third side so we don't have to look at that neighbor's accumulating piles of stuff.

Fences are good. Too bad they cost so much.

Couldn't you have just shot the menacing dogs?

 

[doowdniw]

Yes! That's why we used metal posts this time. The last wood posts simply rotted off at the ground level.

We also used 8" pickets. The original fence was built by the home builder here and it was about as cheap as it could be.

I live in the South too! yeehaw!

Fences inside the city limits here are required to have metal posts. Anything over 6' requires a building permit. It's a revenue thing.

 

[Hypoxia]

Couldn't you have just shot the menacing dogs?

Then I'd have to deal with the sheriff, court, crap like that. Better to make the fuckers pay for their own shit. Anonymous complaints worked. Also, the neighbors belong to a locally politically powerful tribe. Best not to piss them off.