Mending Fences
Jul. 11th, 2004 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
richardf8Today was mostly devoted repairing the aforementioned damage to our back fence (for those who just tuned in, an idjit backed into one of the posts).
The total cost of materials was about 30 bucks. I detached the chain-link from the post, pulled the broken post off and dug out its concrete footing. Then I stuck the new post in the hole, poured in some wonderful Quikrete that you can dump in and add water to without mixing. Then stretched the chain link back and fastened it. All in all a job that sounds far simpler than it is. Rope, however, is a wonderful thing, and are the many and sundry knots a canoeist learns. I used it to pull the old footing out of the hole and to s-t-r-e-t-c-h the chainlink back into place -- There's a lot of tension on that stuff.
Well, now I'm sore and full of Tuna Steak and Corn, and about ready to do a load of laundry and do a faceplant because, alas and alack, the siren call of the Lucent Callmaster III beckons me to Eden Prairie in the morning.
The total cost of materials was about 30 bucks. I detached the chain-link from the post, pulled the broken post off and dug out its concrete footing. Then I stuck the new post in the hole, poured in some wonderful Quikrete that you can dump in and add water to without mixing. Then stretched the chain link back and fastened it. All in all a job that sounds far simpler than it is. Rope, however, is a wonderful thing, and are the many and sundry knots a canoeist learns. I used it to pull the old footing out of the hole and to s-t-r-e-t-c-h the chainlink back into place -- There's a lot of tension on that stuff.
Well, now I'm sore and full of Tuna Steak and Corn, and about ready to do a load of laundry and do a faceplant because, alas and alack, the siren call of the Lucent Callmaster III beckons me to Eden Prairie in the morning.
