Thursday.. my demo buddy calls me… “we’re start’n to take the fence down today come on by”
8ft iron solid 3/4″ pickets 6ft sections three 2″ channel punched cross bars (2 near the top… one on bottom) 2″ & 3″ sq 1/4″ thick steel posts,….
nice 6-7yo fence was around a now demo’d very large public housing project on the major street in town… they spent so much on the fence it made the news… but they wanted to dress up a “project”
anyway… I’d told him i needed some of it (has to be 4-5 miles of it total) so i meet him onsite the morning he called and walk off what i need 450-500ft… head to my jobsite… and get what i’ll need to take it down… this wasn’t in my plans for the day but… I know if I don’t go now it’ll be gone quick…
Get the F350 started as it’s sat most of the summer… hook up the big trailer load the bobcat… air up tires… fuel ect… get the gas powered cut off saw (round blade chainsaw engine type) gather all my 14″ friction metal cutting blades… and pull my 2 guys off painting my steel stairs and head to the fence site… also took my 14ft trailer behind my lx450 to stack the sections on…
just getting ready took 2 hrs… (it wasn’t in my plans for the day) fence site is only 10 min from me… but still had to stop for ice for the cooler & diesel ect…
got down a system pretty quick… me on the saw… cut all the bottom channels first… then the top 2 (6 cuts per section) it”s show’n over 100degrees outside… my 2 guys hold the fence best they can as i make the last cut try’n to prevent bind’n the saw blade as the fence drops free… they carry & stack each section onto the trailer as i cut… I’m getting about 3 sections of fence per blade and i’m being real careful with my blades… by lunch I’m out of blades… besides i need water and a 2 min break at each blade change anyway in the heat… run to harbor freight and get 12 14″ norton metal cutting blades… by 3pm we have only 150ft of fence down & on the trailer…
friday we’re already loaded and have our system down… i find 4 more blades i have hang’n on the wall $2.99 ea from BIG LOTS.. we get on site fueled and ready to go by 9am… by noon with the cheaper blades i have another 350ft cut and stacked on the trailer… first day… no long sleaves and i looked like a friction blade… second day long sleaves… wet rags around my neck and under my hat… full face shield vs safety glasses the day before… knowing what ur doing and being prepared helps a ton… didn’t need the bobcat 1st day so left it second day… so only one truck & trailer..vs 2
got back to my site and unloaded & stacked the fence so 2 full days with me & 2 guys for 500ft of fence…
sat.. i went alone with the big truck & big trailer & the bobcat to pull posts… tried a few ways to do it… in 3 hrs i had only 20 posts pulled & cleaned… they had used an 18″ auger for the holes all of them 30-36″ deep filled with concrete… my 753 bobcat only has about 1800lb of “breakout force” whatever that is… but it ain’t enough for thes posts… with a nylon lifting sling i’d wrap the post hook strap to the forks and shake…push…pull…lift… rock…. until they’d pull out of the ground… the in most cases i could hit the steel post near the concrete with a sledge hammer and the concrete would break away… usually… in a couple cases the post pulled out of the ground leaving the concrete… and in a few i had to sledge hammer the concrete to bust it away from the post… swinging a sledge hammer in 100degree heat ain’t my idea of fun…
my demo buddy did offer his track hoe to pull the posts but i didn’t want to tie him or the hoe up… but… for the other 60 or so posts… i think i’ll let him…
now i just have to reset the posts and weld everything back…. fun for me…
he gave me ( i feel) a great price on the fence… and in the long run it will save me much time & $$$ and a better fence than i would have gotten…
I’ll start a new post on my idea for resetting the posts
p
Replies
Will be swinging by your loft project on my way to WISC end of this month...
Will any of this fencing be there? or will it be in one of your warehouses??? <g>
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Author Unknown
I'll start a new post on my idea for resetting the posts
Will it be a post post?
An apres post?"Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca
Be careful you don't step into a post hole and break your keyboard!;)
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
I often find myself in post holes.
If Ponytl ever tells us the post story, the next post will be an apres post post post.
Don't know why... but that was a good story. Thanks for posting it.
Seeing this is from Aug 12 I guess this is a post post bump.
rez - that was SO bad!
sad but true
Pics?
jt8
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner, liberty is a well armed lamb protesting the vote." -- Benjamin Franklin