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Best way to buy/install chain-link fence?

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Eddie in MI

04-02-2005 10:25:32




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My wife really wants to fence in a portion of the yard with the typical hurricane/chain link fence that most people use.

Anyone have any favorite places to buy this stuff? Installation ideas? Any tips from the veterans here (people who have screwed this up before and now know exactly how to/how not to do this, lol!)?

Also, if you know of any website for further research, I'd really appreciate.

TIA!!!
Eddie

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Dug

04-02-2005 21:12:04




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Eddie in MI, 04-02-2005 10:25:32  
I agree with Fawteen, skip the concrete on the line posts. The corners need to be cemented. Set your corners one day, then come back the next to finish. Run a string on the perimeter and drive your posts. Use the same string to mark your tops for cut-off. Cap them and run your top rail.

Stretching the fence is alot of fun! I took two 4foot pieces of 2x4 and rigged them so I could sandwich the fence with them, bolt it tight and used it to stretch. Use plenty of tie dows to keep the fence tight to the posts.

Dug

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Fawteen

04-03-2005 04:19:55




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Dug, 04-02-2005 21:12:04  
Another way to stretch it is to slip the tension bar down through one set of links and use it as a pulling point. This works especially well if you have a spreader. Basically, it's a piece of pipe with a loop in the center on one side for attaching a comealong to, and three hooks on the other side that hook around the tension bar to spread the pulling forces out a little. At the price of lumber these days, they're cheaper than an 8 foot 2x4...

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Dug

04-02-2005 21:13:42




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Dug, 04-02-2005 21:12:04  
I forgot to mention, make sure you have plenty of gates that are WIDE enough for your lawn tractor!!!

Dug



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CNKS

04-02-2005 17:37:53




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Eddie in MI, 04-02-2005 10:25:32  
The frost thing depends on where you live--you have to be farther north than Kansas, I set my posts in concrete, they have not moved in 6 years.



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Fawteen

04-02-2005 14:16:21




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Eddie in MI, 04-02-2005 10:25:32  
I worked for a company that installed chain link for a while, and picked up a couple of tricks.

The two main ones are:

1. Don't dig holes unless you absolutely have to. It's better to drive the posts and then trim the top to height to cut off the part that gets beat up from driving them.

2. Try to avoid concrete if at all possible. It just gives the frost something to hang onto while it's driving the posts out of the ground in the spring.

There are some others, like weaving sections together, and "bouncing" the fence as you stretch it to get it tight. Put it with "twists" down and "knuckles" up, so you don't have pointy stuff up where folks will get scratched. That also helps keep pets from digging under.

Install your corner posts first, then stretch a string and install your line posts. Put the top rail on and then stretch the chain link.

If you have specific questions, post them and I'll try to answer them.

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the tractor vet

04-02-2005 12:50:29




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 Re: Best way to buy/install chain-link fence? in reply to Eddie in MI, 04-02-2005 10:25:32  
Look at all before ya by , the stuff at lowes and home depot is a lighter ga. then the stuff that the pro's use . I did my back yard couple years ago and used the heavy stuff and mine is 5 footer should have went to the ten with razor wire on top and abot 7000 volts to the fence . But on the more seirous side i used 9 foot posts and got them down in ground and cemented them in then ran a string and cut all the tops to match as all holes were not all as deep but when the ground was hasrder then rock and the spud bar bounced even the posthole digger would not go down even with and 8 foot 4x4 and two healthe taler sized guys hanging from it . It was a fun job that a couple of freinds helped with and i was easy on the strechen as i only used the ranger and not the 806 Like i said it was a fun job dig one hole drink two beers dig nother hole drink two beers.

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