GADS fence
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The fence is a "post rail" fence. It is a three-rail fence (you can have a two rail).
I spec'd it out, but had our local Agway contract it out - they did a fantastic job.
If you go for the fabric like I did (the wire fence attached to the wooden fence), INSIST on black even if they have to order it. Do NOT let them talk you into green.
Also when the fence is installed it will not look as rustic as mine. It takes 6 months to a year before it startes to get that weathered look.
IIRC, the rails come in either 8 foot or 10 (maybe 12?) foot lengths. Ours is 10 foot. I like the look better and it was easier to figure out how much fencing we needed. I just cut a 10ft piece of rope and my wife and I walked around the yard where we wanted the fence, measuring all the way. I made a drawing on the computer, brought it to the place, and got exactly what I wanted.
My back yard is probably about 1/2 acre, and the fence cost us about $2000 full installed.
HTH,
GAD
I spec'd it out, but had our local Agway contract it out - they did a fantastic job.
If you go for the fabric like I did (the wire fence attached to the wooden fence), INSIST on black even if they have to order it. Do NOT let them talk you into green.
Also when the fence is installed it will not look as rustic as mine. It takes 6 months to a year before it startes to get that weathered look.
IIRC, the rails come in either 8 foot or 10 (maybe 12?) foot lengths. Ours is 10 foot. I like the look better and it was easier to figure out how much fencing we needed. I just cut a 10ft piece of rope and my wife and I walked around the yard where we wanted the fence, measuring all the way. I made a drawing on the computer, brought it to the place, and got exactly what I wanted.
My back yard is probably about 1/2 acre, and the fence cost us about $2000 full installed.
HTH,
GAD
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I love Gads fence also . I would have chosen that kind but it didnt go with the kind of house i have.We had to do a chain length , which im not that crazy about , but i plan on adding another white victorian wood fence on the other side of this one .
Bridget
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Bridget
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They did it in a day - probably only took a few hours IRRC, but YMMV.
The key is the big auger they used to dig the holes. We have a very rocky soil, so the big machine made short work of what would have been a back-breaking job if done by hand.
The posts are put in the ground and then cement is poured in if necessary. If this is done it has to set before they can start work on the rails.
I don't remember if we have cement... If we did it took two days.
GAD
The key is the big auger they used to dig the holes. We have a very rocky soil, so the big machine made short work of what would have been a back-breaking job if done by hand.
The posts are put in the ground and then cement is poured in if necessary. If this is done it has to set before they can start work on the rails.
I don't remember if we have cement... If we did it took two days.
GAD
took a lok at the fence in some of the photos on your website it does look great. Gave me some ideas for my place.
I live in a townhome and need a barrier of some kind that doesn't block light but stops mailmen, newspaper and other door-to-door people from walking from my neighbours walkway - through the flowerbeds to my walkway instead of going down to the road and back up my drive (thus saving themselves about 20 paces).
Okay - this is a pet peeve - in the summer it isn't bad most goaround at least on the grass and not trhough the beds but in the winter with the snow they can't even see the shrubs etc underneath - most of the top branches of a spirea (3 ft flowering shrub) broken off by a delivery guy who decided to walk through the snow - you'd think 3-4 ft of snow piled up would be a deterrant but no.
Okay off my soapbox
Your fence idea just might work. Thanks GAD.
Caroline aka Charlie
I live in a townhome and need a barrier of some kind that doesn't block light but stops mailmen, newspaper and other door-to-door people from walking from my neighbours walkway - through the flowerbeds to my walkway instead of going down to the road and back up my drive (thus saving themselves about 20 paces).
Okay - this is a pet peeve - in the summer it isn't bad most goaround at least on the grass and not trhough the beds but in the winter with the snow they can't even see the shrubs etc underneath - most of the top branches of a spirea (3 ft flowering shrub) broken off by a delivery guy who decided to walk through the snow - you'd think 3-4 ft of snow piled up would be a deterrant but no.
Okay off my soapbox
Your fence idea just might work. Thanks GAD.
Caroline aka Charlie
Yeah! Those guys do that to MY yard, too! We live in a cul-de-sac and my lawn is connected to both lawns on either side so when my neighbors get company, I get company, too! Not to mention the neighborhood kids like to "cut across" for the heck of it.
(I like to conveniently forget I used to do it when I was a child, too!
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Anyway, although my flowers are well protected and in areas where you'd actually have to enter my property, look for them and step over the mini wooden picket fence to stomp on them, my beautiful green grass is starting to appear all worn and dying.
I'm thinking of a GAD fence myself...
Kanela
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To forgive, canine."
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Anyway, although my flowers are well protected and in areas where you'd actually have to enter my property, look for them and step over the mini wooden picket fence to stomp on them, my beautiful green grass is starting to appear all worn and dying.
I'm thinking of a GAD fence myself...
Kanela
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"To err is human.
To forgive, canine."
Newfieland.org
Ok, my husband called about the fence today, and it is rather hard to find, and one of the few he found that actually knew what he was speaking of told him that he should not go with rails, which I LOVE, but instead flatboards because the wire fence buckles and bows since it does not have a flat surfact to make contact with...is this true, and if so does it look bad...evidentally I am not noticing it from the photo.
Oh yeah do the dogs jump it???
Oh yeah do the dogs jump it???
Thanks GAD - This seems perfect and since I'd only have about 25 ft to do - a very economical decision.
To Kanela - if it was just the grass and just kids I wouldn't get so PO'ed but on Halloween I had put a stake with rope tied on it at about a 2.5 - 3 ft height down the property line just where the flower beds are. Kids could have still cut across the grass by the road but not across the flower bed. I saw many parents (of little ones no less) lift the rope so their kids could walk underneath it.
I almost ran out and yelled right then and there (almost because the fiancé stopped me).
Anyhow - definately going to look at GAD's fence - at about the 4ft height. Hey bonus-I can go sweet peas up the mesh - Yeah!!
Caroline aka Charlie
[This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 02-05-2002).]
To Kanela - if it was just the grass and just kids I wouldn't get so PO'ed but on Halloween I had put a stake with rope tied on it at about a 2.5 - 3 ft height down the property line just where the flower beds are. Kids could have still cut across the grass by the road but not across the flower bed. I saw many parents (of little ones no less) lift the rope so their kids could walk underneath it.
Anyhow - definately going to look at GAD's fence - at about the 4ft height. Hey bonus-I can go sweet peas up the mesh - Yeah!!
Caroline aka Charlie
[This message has been edited by Charlie (edited 02-05-2002).]
Well it wouldn't be so bad if it was *just* the little ones but I draw the line when teenagers ride their skateboards along my landscape boulders and scratching them up with big black marks. It's also the sprinkler heads that get broken with skateboards and bikes. I've been home and caught the buggers doing it and I HAVE gone outside and yelled but it does no good. Now they just watch for my truck in the driveway. If it's there, they pretend to be good and go across the street; if it's not, who knows what havoc they wreak.
Maybe I'll just move to the country where the nearest neighbor is 10 miles away. Yeah!
Kanela
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"To err is human.
To forgive, canine."
Newfieland.org
Maybe I'll just move to the country where the nearest neighbor is 10 miles away. Yeah!
Kanela
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"To err is human.
To forgive, canine."
Newfieland.org