If you have gravel delivered, don’t skip the compacting process though.\u00a0 For $33 I rented a compactor that leveled this spread into an almost concrete-like surface.<\/p>\n
We needed some gravel on the advice that it’s a good product to use to set in fence posts.\u00a0 Baah, use a bag of concrete.\u00a0 We couldn’t get the gravel packed in there tight enough.<\/p>\n
We had redwood delivered from a guy based less than 40 minutes from here (name and contact info to be posted after the final delivery).\u00a0 Harvested locally and processed locally… it feels good.\u00a0 It’s so fresh, that you get a pioneer feeling as one cuts and assembles it.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Diane for catching us with this drive-by photo shoot.\u00a0 If you look really close you can see my fingers holding the level in place.\u00a0 Yep, my job is to hold the level and the board… over and over, and over.\u00a0 I get the quiet side of the deal, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sure, why not…\u00a0 It took long enough to get here.\u00a0 After an extremely rainy spring it has been nice to have weather decent enough to work outside in. So to kick off the season we started with gravel delivery from … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/99house\/files\/2011\/06\/fence-300x199.jpg\" "\\"fence\\"")
<\/a>Right now we’re more than half way done with the 200 feet of fence that we’re installing.\u00a0 We started off by renting a post hole auger.\u00a0 Get the kind with two wheels and it’s pretty easy to drill a lot of holes quickly.\u00a0 23 in just a little over an hour, to be exact.<\/p>\n