Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fence. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

stump grinding and fence building

What do you get when you cross a chain link fence with anything? Tons of weed trees! Our decades-old chain link fence teamed up with a substantial gang of Norway maples in the corner of our lot. The fence protects the trees from chain saws and in turn, the trees protect the fence from bolt cutters. It's a potent pair. How to bring order to this court? Enter the dragon, the stump grinder. After a few days of hacking down as much chainlink as possible with a sawzall, the stump grinder came in to leave a path of sweet utter destruction.

In the same chaotic day, the fence builders came to make like it never happened, extending our nice clean cedar stockade straight across to the back corner of the lot. This was a major reclamation of space. Stay tuned for the the trees we put in to replace the "invasive" Norway maples.













Thursday, June 10, 2010

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

We had two sections of fence built in some prime locations in the garden. One spot was behind the house where we had taken out all of the large overgrown shrubbery/vines/trees. The other spot was between the vegetable garden and the street. The fences are all cedar. They made a pretty big impact right away...

taking out the existing chainlink...


bringing in the new...6' stockade





for the front we got 5' spaced stockade




our resident catbird watches the fences go up. he's hard to see- all gray- right in the middle. though he's hard to spot, he's easy to hear.