Festool fence

[HowardH]

After months, maybe years of delay, I finally got around to replacing my fence.  The posts were set at a min of 32" deep and many were 36".  I wish I had a c12 after this since my old crapsman 14.4 ran out of juice alot.  Of course, the LOML wouldn't settle for any old fence.  It had be one of those fancy boy ones with the arched trim and the 2x8 caps which my TS75 cut the miters beautifully.  The box shown was to cover up the gas meter. Hopefully, this will be the last fence I will need to build as over the last three weekends of working my donkey off, I am one tired hombre!

 

[wnagle]

Very Nice!!  Any more construction details?  How are the individual vertical boards attached?

 

[HowardH]

Here are the backside pics.  The fence is 7.5' high along the back.  I used 3 2x6 treated pine stacked to back up our planting area along the fence.  This way, the fence boards themselves never are buried in the dirt.  Along the sides, I used 2 of the 2x6 so the fence is about 7' there.  I ripped a spacer board 4.5" wide to allow an overlap of .75" on either side for the boards that are attached on top of the bottom row.  All materials were rough sized and we used a boat load of concrete, about 32 bags for 25 posts.  The boards themselves were nailed with a galvanized 2" nail using a strip gun.  No way would I have used a hammer on this job.  I used about 3000 nails!  My arm would have fallen off.  During my college days, I built fences with a neighbor to make some money.  I suspect we built about 100 of them.   That was 30 odd years ago and I still have some of my tools from back then.  They had been gathering dust for a long time.  The arches were cut on the band saw which sped up the process considerably.  The last touch will be to stain which will happen in the next month or so.