Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Kennedy
- From: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi Bob, I either did not give enough information describing what I am confused about or I am so confused that I don't understand your

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Kennedy
08, 2010 12:49 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi all, Ok, sorry to change horses mid stream, but, I decided to go with a chain link fence. Lots more expensive, but, I feel it will help the property value stay up. Got it all sussed out, except for one thing

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-08 Thread Kevin Doucet
] advice putting up a fence Hi all, Ok, sorry to change horses mid stream, but, I decided to go with a chain link fence. Lots more expensive, but, I feel it will help the property value stay up. Got it all sussed out, except for one thing. Part of the fence will be going up an incline. I read

[BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Doucet
Hi all, Ok, sorry to change horses mid stream, but, I decided to go with a chain link fence. Lots more expensive, but, I feel it will help the property value stay up. Got it all sussed out, except for one thing. Part of the fence will be going up an incline. I read something on the lowes url

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-03 Thread Bill Gallik
From: Kevin Doucet Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:05 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Thanks for this advice. The posts have a flared spade part, which I guess is to give the post more traction, or, grip and I think

RE: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Cy Selfridge
no sight - LOL) Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:06 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence I don't think I know

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Dan Rossi
Kevin, I don't know where in the country you are, but many states have a service called one call. You need to call them and they will take care of sending someone out to mark any buried utilities. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel:(412)

RE: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Michael baldwin
here is the site http://www.diggershotline.com/ Michael _ From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:16 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Doucet
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:25 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi group, I am looking in to getting a dog. This dog will be for in doors but I want a fenced area for the pet to run and for us to play out in the air. I have an area walled up on two sides, one

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Doucet
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:25 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi group, I am looking in to getting a dog. This dog will be for in doors but I want a fenced area for the pet to run and for us to play out in the air. I have an area walled up on two sides, one

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Bob Kennedy
: Thursday, September 02, 2010 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Thanks for the help with method and tools. I have all the tools I need other than a come-a-long and the pole driver. I have a friend which will lend me his pole driver. Do I need

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Dale Leavens
will easily put a lot of stress on the fencing and may deflect the posts. - Original Message - From: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence masonry string and marking

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Moore
could pull over the corner posts. Take care and hope all goes well. Mike - Original Message - From: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi Mike, First

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Doucet
Thanks for this advice. The posts have a flared spade part, which I guess is to give the post more traction, or, grip and I think this sort of post would need a rather large PVC pipe to accommodate it. I do understand your rationale with this idea, I just don't know if it will work with the

[BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Doucet
Hi group, I am looking in to getting a dog. This dog will be for in doors but I want a fenced area for the pet to run and for us to play out in the air. I have an area walled up on two sides, one side the house brick wall and the other side a wood wall of a room addition. I am thinking about

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Moore
- From: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:25 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi group, I am looking in to getting a dog. This dog will be for in doors but I want a fenced area for the pet to run

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Bob Kennedy
: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:25 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence Hi group, I am looking in to getting a dog. This dog will be for in doors but I want a fenced area for the pet to run and for us to play

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Dale Leavens
at the desired height so I would know exactly how deep to sink them. Hope this gives you some useful ideas. Dale Leavens. - Original Message - From: Kevin Doucet To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:25 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Mikochik
a blind trick i learned about laying out a line with a string is not to start the string at the corner of your house but to run the string starting from a point along the wall as far back as you can. its easy then to make sure the string is equal distant along the wall then when it passes out

Re: [BlindHandyMan] advice putting up a fence

2010-09-01 Thread Bill Gallik
You've gotten some very sound advice on this, but I'd like to throw out two additional considerations just because they're things that aren't usually thought of when installing fencing: 1) You may want to consider using PVC pipe for setting your fence posts. The idea here is that you buy