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If you want to get all scientific about it, you can measure the moisture content as it sits and estimate the moisture content it will eventually achieve in your particular climate and calculate the shrinkage. You won’t have a meter to measure the moisture, but you could buy one, if you were so inclined. Most likely you could install them fairly snug now, as I suspect that the moisture content will never be higher than it is now. In any event an 8th inch or 3/16 inch gap is nothing, when you’re viewing the fence from 50 feet away.
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