Hanging the plates

This was one of the more fun installations. Not unlike Kieth and Lindsay's stairs in that lots of work up front costing, tracking down materials, picking then up, drawing and resolving details and all the work necessary to make the parts, made assembly pure joy!

The original mock up for Cheryl's fence. Interesting, that after two months of design revisions, pricing and budget driven changes, acquiring materials, iterating the design and resolving issues, the fence is very close to the original idea. Every time I do this, it re-enforces to me that there is no substitute for honed instinct.

Then in about 2 hours, all the panels went in!

Above--Brad transferring chain lengths to frame for hole drilling placement. Below--Joe and Brad carry the plates (about 100+ pounds each).


Except maybe the first hour and 50 minutes in which Joe and I laid out the plates, drilled the holes, carried the plates to position and drove the steel pins through the chain, in the rain!


Special thanks to Cheryl for taking these pictures and participating in the design and build process.


But when it was all done and said, the sun came out and made the day!



Foreground--rabbit fence inset and separate from deer/entry fence