How To Build a Long Privacy Fence | THE HANDYMAN |

this is the fence that I just finished came out really nice now I've got to build another fence and that's going to be a fun one because it's behind all all these bushes here but I built that one let's say three years ago and this homeowner has been staining and keeping up with the fence so that it doesn't end up looking like that one yeah so it's not going to be fun today the goal is to remove this old fence which is about a hundred about a hundred feet long a long fence the fence looks like it was stained at one time but it's not wearing very well [Music] [Music] that's not going to bad got my first Oh six seven foot section of fence removed and just going to keep on going I don't think I'm going to be able to get all of this in my pickup truck I was hoping to get it all in there but I have a feeling up to break this up into two days and two trips to the dump I've got 50 inches between the wheel wells of my truck so I'm trying to get as much in there as possible so puts me at 53 so just pick it right here is where I'm going to make my next cut in order to get the largest piece in between the wheel wells [Music] now that the truck is filled up above the wheel wells I can start taking 60-inch panels that will fit through the tailgate and we can maximize how much we can take out here today I've been about 40 feet taken out and this battery is about half dead you got the little indicators on there but I don't want to happen is I don't want them to get overheated so I'm going to take that one out even though it's metal we did put this one in I'll let this one cool for 10 or 15 minutes and put it on charge got lucky I had a barbed I think that his coupler and two stainless steel hose hose clamps so there is a hundred foot long six foot tall rotten privacy fence all on the bed of this truck so we're squatting a little low and I'm going to show you what happens when I air up my air bags Oh instant lift kit [Music] [Music] all right place is nasty I usually wear a mask but I forgot it up at home you start building a fence today and one thing I want to point out is I can't use the reason why I can't use any sort of power auger getting one down through here I guess you could do it but it's probably more trouble than it's worth getting it in and around all these bushes isn't going to work out very well but overall building a fence is extremely easy the only thing that takes much skill and I think it just takes more patience than anything is to set the post in a straight line so I'm just following the old fence and you can see this is where I broke off one of the old posts and I'm going to set my string line right on it right there and I'm only doing a small section at a time this is probably only 35 feet by feet and you can see that the old fence was not straight at all because this string line is set up back there where there was a post and it's on the complete opposite side so we'll we'll get this sucker straightened out you know I actually just threw away a piece of this that I had bought the other day to do a different one you'll get that fixed [Music] got all of our scents pickets laid out and the fence rails and posts have been stains kind of funny one neighbor decided to stain his side before I put it up and the other neighbor is going to stain his after I put it up so kind of odd putting the nicer side on the inside is usually the nice side goes the other side so here is where I've started and I only do a certain length of fence pickets at time because you can get a little droop in your your string so this is about ten foot section and then I'll move the string down I'll probably just eyeball it going through this tree here and then on the picket that's out here I'll set it up to go maybe ten fifteen feet down you just about got all the pickets screwed to the fence and it's time to make a gate the customers requested that I build the new gate exactly the same as the old gate was built and they even want me to use the the old hinges and gate flash so what I'm going to do is use this as a template and try to make an exact replica I got everything cut out now I'm just going to use these three inch screws right here and if I can screw these angled pieces together something like this and then go from there see how I don't think this gate works until all the pickets are actually attached you [Music] [Music] I'm filming this video about a month ago and it appears I lost some video footage I don't have a final walkthrough what the fence look like when it's all done you did get to see me put the gate together it took me about four days you have any questions leave them in the comment section below and give this video a thumbs up

Channel: The Handyman

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Keywords: how to build a gate, fence gate, cedar privacy fence, how to build a privacy fence, privacy fence, installing a privacy fence, privacy fence ideas, home improvement, home remodeling, remodeling ideas, western red cedar, cedar wood fence, handyman business, construction business, remodeling business, wood working, carpentry tools, power tools

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Length: 14min 3sec (843 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2017