I'm done...
 

after 750 running feet of fence, 5.5 gals of Valspar ext paint, and 3 four inch paint brushes. And that's not counting the pre-painting scraping or the liquid refreshments.:)

Went good...the worst part is the bottom rail. Need to sit or squat on the ground and then move every three feet or so. Should be good for another 5 years or so.

Now we need some more rain...

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Great job - looks beautiful. I hope your knees are still in good enough shape in five+ years.

^^^ Thanks.
I paint the higher parts until my paint carrier is low. Then I do the low rail...makes it easier with a mostly empty container.
Getting up with a full container is hard to do without spilling it.

I could have done that in an hour and spent the rest of the time drinking your beer!

Big job! The squatting down part hurts thinking about it! Nice work.

^^^
I figure it only took me 16 hours, or less to do the whole thing. (and the beer stock is still good):)
If I would have waited another year or two...it would have taken a lot longer due to scraping.

Before I scrape or paint, I scrub the fence with bleach/soap water to remove the mold and algae (green) build-up.

It was only 3 years ago that I had a titanium rod placed in my broken femur.
Squatting is finally getting easy to do....the year or two after the surgery, it felt like something sharp poking in my hip...now it's all good.

^^^ I thought about one of those. My lawn, near the fence is not real level and smooth.
It still might have worked. The other thing I will do next time is use knee pads. The dried dead grass was hard on my knees.

Impressive..

There's a guy in Kentucky, wants to know how much you charge...

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^^^ I've seen that when passing through.
I think he was smart and used plastic instead of wood.

Thanks! It started as a small project in the first pic to separate my property from my neighbors.
I liked it so much that I built onto it for the other two sides.

I didn't think (at that time) of the maintenance/painting that would be involved later.

It's been worth it.

Looks great!

My knees hurt just looking at it :D

^^^ Thanks...my knees feel ok now.
When painting, getting off my knees was the hardest part.:)

This is better than that ^

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Great job, Steve. Particularly the part about the pre-wash and scraping. I can see your problem, Steve. If you just cut a few corners it would be way easier. ;)

Me? I'm getting to the point where I'd probably just find someone else to do it. Or move to a lower maintenance place. But then...I'm old.

^^^ Thanks....I'll be 70 next year. I don't feel it and don't want to.

I have an 85 year old woman neighbor that works outdoors every day (weather permitting)
She is my inspiration...lol.

Impressive, Steve. I'm 64, active, HWP. But OMG have I lost a step since I was 26. And no amount of hard work can now get me back in what I would call good shape. My strategy is to move slower. And keep moving. I'm not dead yet, and I plan to go down swinging. You too, it seems. There are those who are busy living, and those who are busy dying. I'm raising my glass, Steve.

Beautiful property. Nice work.

One of the beer companies around here ran an ad' campaign and the catch phrase was "That man deserves a beer." Today you are that man!

I love post and rail fences. An yep, I've done some painting of them too - phew.

People around here use the platci fencing. It works great until there is a fire. Then there is melted plastic all over the place, but that actually happens to a small percentage. It works out well in terms of maintenance.

I appreciate all the great comments.

Most of my friends are saying "go plastic...no maintenance"

There is a lot of satisfaction after doing a job that shows results. If I hadn't been working on this paint job...I prob would have been wasting the time on something non-productive. :)

Yep. Good thing you were painting the fence instead of sitting around drinkin' beers watching the turtles and waiting for that naked female to walk by again.

Excellent!

All I can say is, thankgoodness they make extensions for spray guns.

Each 12 foot section has 4 rails that are 1"X6"X12 foot long.
I feel the most important part of the painting is getting a good coat on the 1" portion of the rails that faces up because of the snow and rain. (esp the snow because it freezes and melts over and over) That's where the first paint peeling always starts.

Using a sprayer or thrower, to get a good coat on the 1" tops would prob lead to paint running when on the 6" wide portions. With a brush, I can control that easier.

I do have a Zoom paint sprayer with enough cord to reach the entire fence.

Now sit back, relax, and have yourself a
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My brother found these while out shopping for buttermilk. He said he had to buy a six pack just because of the name.

^^^ Ha!
Just back from biking. I left at 7am and it was 73 degrees already and very humid.
Supposed to lead to some widespread rain tonight...hopefully. :)

We're fixin to get some rain soon. Sky is a weird orange color and it's thundering out.

Vinyl Horse Fence

Yeah..I kinda figured I was calling it wrong with saying plastic....but I don't know much about it.

Do they still use wood 4X4 for the posts with that stuff? (under the vinyl)

^^^ I already have this one...
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The reasons why I didn't use it are in post #27

Nope - all vinyl.

^^^ That surprises me.
I wouldn't think they could get enough strength out of vinyl to handle the wind load.

The vinyl stuff looks real nice. If I was to do it again, it would def be vinyl.

The picket fence I have was constantly being taken down by wind. It was allegedly designed to be just the vinyl post (hollow). But when wind load increased, it would just pull the bracket or tear a chunk out of the vinyl post. Worst investment I think I've ever made. I ended up putting 2x4's in the sleeves and fastening the fence brackets through the vinyl post into the 2x4. This fixed the problem of the posts tearing.

I just assumed the posts were all mounted to a 4X4...like a plastic mailbox is.

I just used a manual post hole digger for mine and poured a half bag of redi-mix in with each.
The only thing is I wish I would gone a little deeper...When the wind blows after a lot of rain, the rails catch so much wind that the posts start leaning. I have had to reset about a third of my posts over the years..deeper and a full bag of cement.

Wait...what?

What happens at the turtle pond...stays at the turtle pond. :D

(Bill has a good memory)