There's a guy who sells containers locally. They cut out 6.5 x 7' openings for doors. He has agreed to sell me a lot of pieces for $5 each. I'm going to go get some free telephone poles and make a fence. Should be about $ .85 a foot 6' high not counting paint.
Steve
Way cool!
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.
Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner
1) You suck. 2) Pictures! Particularly of the auger and crane you use to place the poles. 3) Footings are tamped earth, yes?
--Winston
Are you building a chain saw guide rig to cut the panel groves in the sides of the pole sections? That would qualify for the metalworking part...
I'll have my BIL come over with his tractor auger. If I hit any rocks (99% chance of that), I'll just go as deep as I can. I'm going to cut them about nine feet, trying to put two feet in the ground. It's real sandy around here, so they should hold. If I get them three, I'll still have six feet sticking up. Gonna be some mondo fence. Should send the wind blasts upwards a little, too. Windy here.
Steve
Panels are corrugated metal ..............
Yes, and the corrugations are normally vertically oriented, so the edges at the poles would be normal straight metal.
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:57:09 -0500, the infamous "Pete C." scrawled the following:
Drilling and bolting them onto one side of the pole would be a lot easier and wouldn't require any more structure.
Drilling is metalworking, oui?
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