alrighty then I got all my lumber after my flat tire this morning and here's
what we're doing from the corner of that house to the phone pole this whole fence
is falling in and caving in and I'm fixing to take it all down gates and
everything the gates aren't even the gates are just held up with bungee cords
and i'll be building new gates and new fence and everything so come along bring
some water enjoy the sunshine and let's get after it okay got the gates down got
the fence down now i gather up all this bad wood and stack it all up over there
I had to leave them there to walk on because this is all soft mud right here
I was going to replace all these metal poles because I thought they were just
hammered in the ground but they're not there in see Matt and that one right
there has bent that away so I'm gonna hook a chain to it and I probably put it
come along on my pickup and straighten that back up people used to park over
there and i'm pretty sure got ran into so not bad for just i was worth of work
and guess what Eddie's going to be with me tomorrow Eddie was a guest of the
county for a while he's back on the straight and narrow again so I'll have
Eddie and maybe he can tell us some stories about what it's like in the
joint All Right see you tomorrow all right
I got one bent pole that I'm gonna try to straighten up
all right here we go
oh I'm be pakka see how close that is all right square
that way square that way good enough I'll dig down by the foot all the way
around that and pour some cement in there just to make sure it stays Square
and then in between these I am going to go ahead and put some four-by-fours just
so the fence doesn't sag might do the same thing over here and that's about
all I can do today I think I will go ahead and get this firewood moved and
call it a day yeah but it's the old wood on the bottom this is why you don't want
wood near your house fire would sit right on the ground there's swarmers
right there
and here active termites and we're two feet away from the house don't hair ever
stack raw untreated wood near your house you'll have him in there before you know
it the Mockingbird has found the termites and she's only like eight or
nine feet from me she's eyeballing me as long as I don't move she'll get her fill
the termites these particular termites have grown wings and they're swarming so
they're real easy to get I hurry up I got to get back to work
well that is going to be like a buffet door to a bird to come across all them
bugs in one spot all right we got a good start here this is the next day after my
flat and we're tidying up a little bit burning would have burned everybody's
been wondering about you Eddie say how do you do I'm making my gates a little
bit smaller I measured his truck and measured mine and they're about the same
so I made my gates just wide enough to get a truck through that way though they
won't be so prone to sagging I got my string run crush top so all my tickets
of the same height already I gotta go to Home Depot get some screws and then
we're going to start screwing up these pickets and this afternoon I'll start
building gates I'll show you the progress already
I had to stop and go get some screws but we're getting it what you think Eddie I
think it looks wonderful miss Beverly can you do this for a living yeah yeah a
lot of work yeah I got you good enough and that's Bob Vila don't you have a
twin yeah but wasn't feeling good today sought Sydnor all right we're halfway
done with the pickets will be done probably another hour we'll have the
rest of them up but it's lunchtime now we're going to eat a burger finish the
pickets and then get to work building gates and yeah that opening is big and I
think our dimension that I measured the pickup truck and game and I did want to
go the poll on this side was about back further but that would lead that would
make a six-foot gate for each side and i moved to pull out two more feet and
that'll leave me with 25 foot gate so this probably shouldn't sag Plus this
was a mass produced fence they used a little bitty staples on these pickets
and I'm using screws and when I build these gates they build they'll be built
two three times better than the junk that was up there they were not braced
right they were built just to get him out of here before everything started
sagging and I'm sure they charged him a pretty penny take I'm just charged it on
cheeseburgers yeah go go
that I Bob beta will date yeah tune in next week for this old fence to select
this old fence huh buddy fans my god if it rains anymore we're gonna we're gonna
sink all right good job yep and then do it alone all right next
we're gonna take a break and start building gates
you gonna need any help with them gates yeah thanks so you think you think you
might need a little help you need me to hold something oh yeah now there's a
gate okay yeah we're ready putting the last screw in right in that will be back
with this all friends the sole fence next week you heard it here folks all
right now we're going to build other one and I don't have any hinges so we'll get
that or the one built and then we'll take that cement over to where we're
going to put that flag pole up and we'll come back tomorrow with hinges we put
the flag pole up this afternoon
hold on Eddie pull your uh your fence the guard pull the blade guard up yeah
you got it yeah you gotta just hold that hold it up like that so there you go
that's just how you
good
all right gates are built we've got to do is come back with the hinges and
hardware tomorrow that'll be house these gates mounted in about hour and right
now we got to go set a flag both all right