DIY Hog Panel Fence | 77

what's up guys I'm Zach and welcome back to Workshop edits in today's project we're going to be making this hog wire panel fence built entirely out of pressure treated four by fours two by sixes and these prefabricated hog wire panels that I got from Home Depot let's go ahead and get started all right so this video is actually going to have three components to it and I'm Gonna Leave chapters within the timeline if you want to skip ahead to them so the first one I just want to talk about the prep work and the materials and the tools that went into this project then I will dive straight into the build just a spoiler it was so hot when I decided to build this project in the dead summer heat in Southern California so I don't go into an overly large amount of details so if you do have further questions about certain things that I do feel free to leave a comment and I would be happy to respond to those questions and then at the end I just want to spend a little bit of time talking about my final thoughts and some extra tips that I would have when building events like this so like I said this is a hogwire hog panel fence that you probably see a lot in the midwest the entire thing is built out of eight of these prefabricated hog wire panels that I got from Home Depot they're actually a little bit tricky to locate in Southern California I had to go to three different Home Depots to buy them they come in both six and eight feet in length panels and they are three feet high I purchased eight of them each of them cost about ninety dollars a piece so that was about 720 bucks for just the panels but again if you were to sort of try to fabricate these yourselves it would be way more expensive super I'm consuming so it's definitely worth it if you're going for the style of fence one recommendation that I would have is calling ahead to the Home Depots that you are trying to visit even if it says that they have them online because I went to two different ones that said they had them in stock and they didn't so that was fun rest of the fence is built from Two by six pressure treated wood as well as four by fours that are mounted 18 to 20 inches into the ground because the fence is about 40 inches high I read that it's good to have anywhere from like a third to half of the overall length of your post buried in the ground so I went with just a standard kind of 18 to 20 inches deep and that seems to be working out just fine so besides the hog panels and the pressure treated wood I also used five bags of Quikrete fast setting concrete which was incredibly easy to work with and I would highly recommend if you're building a fence where you want to mount things into the ground using concrete I also used three bags of three quarter inch gravel that created like a three to four inch um base at the bottom of the holes before setting and compacting the posts into the ground and using the concrete overall the project cost about thirteen hundred dollars to do again with the majority of the costs coming from these panels which all included with taxes was about eight hundred dollars but again well worth the purchase and I'm really excited about the aesthetic and overall look of the fence next thing I want to talk about is just tools that I use for the project now everybody is going to have a different set of tools I have a pretty well stocked Workshop so I designed my workflow around having a really well-powered table saw and a dado stack a miter saw as well as what I consider the hero of the project and auger now this was a six inch auger that had the ability to drill all the way down to 30 inches again I only ended up drilling down to about 20 overall for each of these posts and to be honest I'm not actually sure if I could have completed this project without it I did try manually digging some of these holes off camera and I honestly don't know if it physically would have been possible so if you don't have the ability to buy one of those I would highly recommend looking at Home Depot or Lowe's or whatever your big box center is around you that does tool rentals because they're actually quite affordable if you just need to rent one for like half a day and drill out a bunch of holes really quickly again not 100 necessary but if you are thinking about tackling this kind of project I personally cannot imagine trying to do it without it so the last thing I want to talk about is the overall prep that went into actually building this fence so this was a six week project where I completely overhauled my front yard from really crappy weeds and grass and ugly bushes to this more drought tolerant drought friendly landscape which is becoming more of a trend in Southern California just due to water regulation so a couple of steps that I went through ahead of it were completely demoing and removing the old lawn which was back breaking work I have so much respect for the people who do that lots of stump removals irrigation repair capping all my sprinkler lines prepping for drip irrigation installs rating and demoing more land just in prep of actually being able to set this fence in place because I wanted to build the fence First Once I had the overall lawn prepped so that then once the fence was built I can complete it by installing plants dropping in the drip irrigation line putting in mulch and then finishing with this DG pathway and then just doing a series of other things aesthetically on the house to just kind of bring everything together one of the most important things that I'll probably get a question on for somebody who's seen this video is the type of prep work I did ahead of time and figuring out if I need a permit to build a fence so I'll just say I am in Southern California my research told me that if I am building a fence that is 42 inches or lower in your front yard you do not need a permit for it however if you are in a different county in California or you are in a different state I would highly recommend looking into the rules if you're in an HOA they're going to have their own restrictions regardless of where you live so just do your homework ahead of time and the last probably most important thing that I did in that you should 100 do in prepping for some something like this is to at least in Southern California there is a line that you can call or you can go to dig alert.com I'll put a link to it in the description and what they're going to do is offer a free service again because you're going to be drilling pretty deep into your front lawn you're going to want to make sure that you're not drilling into any gas lines water lines sewer lines existing cable lines anything like that so I did that prep work ahead of time they come out and actually mark on your street and up into your driveway where all those things are and give you like a sort of go ahead that where you are going to be doing your build is not going to interfere with any of those things and cause huge problems down the road so I just gave you a ton of information again this type of project is super challenging to do but if you break it up into steps and you do your prep ahead of time it's actually very manageable to do as long as you also have the right tools so thanks for listening to that part now let's get on to the build all right so to kick this project off what I'm going to do is take the pressure treated four by fours that I got they are 10 feet long and I'm just going to cut them in half I was reading and I'll throw a chart up for it that if you are doing a fence that is roughly 36 to 42 inches high you need about 18 inches of buried post including a four inch base of gravel and then the cement and then that gives me enough height out of a five foot post to make the total fence all right so just finished cutting up the post now that those are done what I'm going to do is start laying out the posts and figuring out where I'm going to drill my holes I'm then going to set up a straight line that is two feet back from each end of my yard on the curb and have that string set up then once I get my post set up and the fences in between I can Mark out and start um boring out the holes for the concrete I don't know if you can see it very well but a company named vivor sent me this giant six inch boring drill type thing that is going to make the job so much easier to do I do have a hole digging shovel that I think I'll also have to use to supplement it but we're going to be using this thing almost exclusively to draw out the nine holes that I need in the yard for the four by fours hopefully it's going to go a lot quicker for it I'm super excited to have it foreign [Music] well I certainly picked maybe the hottest day of the year to uh continue with this project all right so here's where we're at all six posts for the front part of the fence have been dug I have three more to dig over here but I'm going to actually wait to finish doing them until I set all the posts in the front here because I want to use that back corner as a reference point for the length and distance in between those posts like I know what it's going to be but I want that post to be set before I go do anything so I did a lot of just like simple straight up research on how to set fence posts specifically pressure treated four by fours what I found was you essentially want the hole to be at least a third as deep as the overall height of the post my fence is going to be roughly 36 to 40 inches high so I just went with 18 because it was a clean number and I already had something that was 18 inches long that I could just use as a reference point a way to properly set these as far as I then understand is we're going to do three to four inches of gravel and we're going to compact it but then going to place the post where it needs to go roughly we're then going to pour in the Quikrete concrete and I'm using the fast setting concrete because it sets in anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes and then is workable at 400 PSI after two hours and we're just going to repeat that process we're going to make sure that the length stays consistent between all of these posts that the hog fence fence properly and we're also going to make sure that everything is referenced against the front of the string line properly so that they are all even and we're also going to make sure that they're level from both ways and I'm just going to use some sacrificial pieces of wood and some Stakes to make sure that happens once I have all those in place I'm basically just going to then repeat the process for the last set of posts over there all right it is day two it's already crazy hot and I just moved a bunch of lumber after doing a run to this tour so I'm like already a sweaty mess all right so all the posts are set I let them care overnight it's been close to 20 hours I think and based on just the Quikrete directions that means there are the bases that have cured are about a thousand PSI they'll continue to get stronger over the next month but they're like totally ready to be workable so the next step is we're going to take a bunch of pressure treated two by sixes and aesthetically I decided that I wanted to use two by sixes split in half for the long stretchers versus two by fours because I thought they would just look a little bit too chunky so I'm going to take eight two by tens and rip them in half those will give me my top and bottom stretchers once I have all of those ripped I'm going to swap to a dado blade and you probably can't really see it but these hog panel fences are about quarter inch wide I'm going to use a dado stack and rip a Groove in each of those pieces so that it can sit in between the top and bottom then we are going to go along each one and just slowly attach them one thing I did last night was I set up my line laser and just marked a level part at each post and that that marking was arbitrary because what I want to do is then use that on each post as a reference line so that I can then get horizontal stretchers across all um eight of the pieces sorry I'm just such a sweaty mess the one other thing that I want to do is also just based on All the lumber I have I'm going to pick the best seven of those boards that I have no that's six of those boards that I have and I'm going to use those for my top railing so I'm going to set those aside because those will aesthetically look the best and then the rest will be for stretchers so I'm going to head over to the table saw and get things going thank you 20 minutes later [Music] [Music] okay that was an incredible amount of work and naturally because the wood was wet it set off my saw stopped break so that was a fun 20 minute detour luckily I have another break and what I ended up doing honestly was just turning off the Saw stop feature for all of the cuts including the dados because if I didn't want to set it off again a lot of pressure treated wood is honestly probably not meant to be ripped that way and yeah eventually I got done I was just extra safe I used a push stick and my gripper and everything worked out really good okay so all the pieces have been cut on the table saw dados are ready to go I cut everything to length by post so now what I'm gonna do is using that line that I marked with my line laser last night I created a couple of just Little jigs that will slip over the post so that I can mount them without having a second person because I want it to be level and I don't want to be a pain in the butt because it's so hot out I'm just going to start mounting each post one by one and making sure that they're level I haven't quite decided exactly how high I'm going to do things higher or lower in reference to that Mark I did so it's going to be totally arbitrary it's Aesthetics based on what you want to do so I'm gonna go ahead and just get started let's do it foreign so one last thing because my camera ended up getting corrupted at the very end of the actual build was I took a circular saw and I cut all of the tops of the mounted posts to length super easy to do and then then obviously after doing that is when I laid the top railing on this piece so sorry that the footage got corrupted and I couldn't show that but just sometimes it happens when you're building things foreign all right so that is going to wrap it up for this project just a couple of tips I would give to wrap this up one maybe don't do this project in the Dead Heat of the summer I personally experience for the first time ever heat exhaustion and was completely down for the count for about two days it was brutal muscle cramps nausea total exhaustion I was basically dead to the world so listen to your body trust your body and be smart when you are tackling a project of this scale alone again like one of the most difficult things was actually just hauling all of the different material from uh the lows in the Home Depots that I got it from because my cart I think ended up being about a thousand pounds and when it's 100 degrees out and you're moving that kind of weight it can really take it out on you so listen to your body and prep accordingly I just want to reiterate that having the right set of tools is going to make this project a lot more feasible yes all of it can roughly be done by hand you don't need a table saw to rip things down and Shake things obviously I designed my projects around the capabilities that I have so just as you're planning these projects make sure that you have the right Tools in place don't be afraid to rent and learn how to use a new tool if it's going to make it a lot easier and I would say other than that figure out the style of fence that you want to build we absolutely love this aesthetic we completely understand that it's not for everybody but so far my wife loves it all of the neighborhood seems to love it and then I personally just couldn't be more proud with the final result of it having never really actually tackled a project like this so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video I know it was a lot of information and I know at different times I probably could have offered up more but again I was kind of battling the elements and the exhaustion of my own body so if you do have any more questions or if you learned something please feel free to leave a comment and I would be happy to answer that to the best of my capabilities so thanks again for watching and I look forward to seeing you guys on whatever it is that I'm building next bye

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Keywords: zach hendrickson, woodworking, diy, do it yourself, metalworking, workshop edits, how to build, hogwire panel fence, diy fence, how to build a fence, hogwire fence, hogfence, how to build a hogfence, how to build a front fence, quikrete concrete, quikcrete fast setting concrete, mounting a fence post, mounting a fence post in concrete, how to set fence posts, building a fence in your front yard, front yard fence, diy fence building, midwest fence, pressure treated fence

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Length: 17min 52sec (1072 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 13 2023