Building a Board on Board Cedar Fence - Part 1

okay a lot to do this week so I'm just going to jump right into it I'm going to be replacing our standard picket fence with a board on board fence with a nice top cap and trim I'm going to be going with pre stained cedar material that I purchased from a local fencing supplier and it was actually cheaper to get the material pre-stained than it was to get the material and stained separately so definitely look into that if you're looking at replacing your fence now we got really lucky with the previous owner of the house because he installed a concrete footer the entire perimeter of the fence which is roughly 290 feet and he also installed these three and a half inch steel posts so right off the bat saving a lot of money because we're not going to replace any of the posts however they will need to be extended in order to give the board on board fence the full support that it needs and that's actually where I'm going to get started I first had to go around to all the poles and knock off the PVC cap that was placed on them now unfortunately all these poles are not cut to the same height so what I did is grabbed a stick and cut it to exactly 73 inches and it's actually tape measure to it so I could hold it next to the pole and very quickly read how tall it each extension needed to be now to actually cut the extensions I'm going to be using my Triton multi stand for support and a Milwaukee porta ban to make the cuts this porter ban was really cool because I think most people are familiar with porta bans but this stand that Milwaukee produces turns it into a stationary unit so that all I had to do was secure the piece of pipe and then make the cut and when I was using this I didn't apply much pressure I would just let the weight of the tool more or less progress the cut for me now of course I'm using three and a half inch diameter pipe since those what my poles are already at but if you have smaller diameter then you can just find matching material after I cut each extension I would go ahead and place it on the pole it was meant for and just double-check that it was to the height needed with so many poles it took me three joints of material to get all the extensions I try to find shade whenever I could and eventually even pulled up a step stool to rest my feet since I'm going to be welding these extensions on I'm going to need access all around the pose so I grab my circular saw and cut a few pickets out of the way behind every post now these poles are just painted silver they're not galvanized but with that said I had to come through with the grinder and grind off some of the paint so it wouldn't contaminate the weld but then I was able to start welding weld all of these extensions on I'm using the Lincoln Electric mid 2/10 machine and I first try to use a ten three extension cord but it very quickly tripped a breaker so I ended up going to the big-box store and running a generator for the day to run the Machine off of and even though it was kind of a household moving the generator and the tank and machine around it works great with the help of a few magnets I would hold the extension on the pole and then tack it in three different places then I would remove the magnet and finish off the weld on one side of the post I would then move to the outside of the fence and weld the other side to speed up the process Cody would go through and grind all of the paint down for me so that I can come back and focus on the welding so if you're going to be doing this your own fence I would recommend that you pay very close attention to starting fires I ended up starting about four or five you have the entire process you can actually see one starting right there we ended up keeping a bowl full of water on standby to give the extensions a coat of protection I gave them all a quick coat of paint the colors don't match but I wasn't concerned since I plan to put boxes around each post so the previous owner used carriage bolts to attach the panel to these brackets and I think it would take way too much work to back off all over the nuts and then try to shimmy the panel wall as one unit so instead I'm going to be taking a shortcut I ended up coming cutting the panels just right outside of the metal bracket and I made sure to cut in between pickets so I wouldn't end up hitting a male doing it this way I still have to remove all the bolts but instead of having an 8-foot panel to remove all six brackets at once I instead have a one foot section to remove all three brackets and this was definitely an easier and more fun process alright moving on to the stringers unfortunately my poles are not spaced exactly eight feet apart but instead they're closer to 93 inches so I would take a measurement and cut each trigger to the link needed to attach the stringers to the post we're going with quarter-inch lag bolts that are an inch and a half long we would first set one bolt in one side then make sure that the stringer was level and then continue running the rest of the bolts in and just a quick tip I save close to $100 by purchasing the 700 lag bolts needed through a local supplier instead of the big box store okay so now this is a really big job that I'm have to break up over multiple videos so stay tuned next week for part two were actually finished the fence by putting up the pickets the top cap and trim as well as the boxes around the post so I will see you then it's gotten up to 104 degrees this week and Cody not only helped me lug all of my gear around while welding but he was also kind enough to hold an umbrella over me to try and keep me cooler hmm I think I got a keeper you

Channel: April Wilkerson

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Length: 5min 35sec (335 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 07 2016