Fencing Project

So my dumb-ass friend, Bling! decided to replace his fence this weekend. (Sorry Bling!, you knew I had to open like that)

For those of you who don’t know Bling! he just can’t do anything ½-ass or even close to normal. He has to go above and beyond on the projects that he works on. Now, I can’t fault him for this because I am not a whole lot better myself.

But he decided to replace his fence and do it himself. He’s got a decent sized backyard and the cost to replace the fence was going to be several thousand dollars. He calls me up and asks if I can come by on Sat. to help out. No problem.
Saturday I get there and no Bling! He’s gone to the hardware store to get some chain and a “come a long.” Why? Well, in order to remove the old posts and put the new ones in Bling! rented a bobcat with a hydraulic lift and auger on it. But remember all those storms and rains we had gotten? The ground was super soft and the bobcat was stuck down about a foot or in the mud….in what is now nice trenches in his backyard.

The first thing we did was spend about an hour getting the bobcat unstuck and back on the trailer so now it was out of commission which put us back to manually digging out all the old posts and what-not. The mud was still making it ultra-difficult to get the posts out and after a while we decided to cut them off below the ground-line rather than spend all day long digging posts out.

Next came putting in the new ones. I didn’t have much more time to spare on Saturday as I had other things to attend to but I suggested he go rent a two-man auger so while he did that I help move materials around. Bling! bought everything as raw material (slats and supports). They said that the difference in price to purchase pre-built 8-foot sections of fence was fairly substantial. So I started carrying slats and what-not back into the backyard.

Bling! got back with the auger and was not in a very good mood and I was about to jet, but it looked like this was going to do the trick. I called him later and he said that they still had to hand-dig a couple of holes but that they got all the posts set and the concrete was drying.

It was just one of those projects that kept having things go wrong. I hope they started going right after I left….maybe it was me?

I never heard from him on Sunday (it rained again), but he said he got his fence finished and that it looked good. Maybe he’ll post up a pic.

Between his fence and my lighting project and I am tied and done with projects for a while.