After a couple visitors recently missed our entrance we thought we'd best make it stand out more. The make-over included moving the gate 3 meters further into our property, giving us more room to get off the road when opening the gate - especially handy when dragging the trailer around. We also upgraded to a wider, 14 foot gate and galvanised posts.
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| Front entrance |
There's still some fine tuning needed to smooth out a couple of humps and the old fence posts are yet to be removed... but it's nearly finished. After the front gate went so well we figured we were on a roll so we did the eastern house gate as well.
I kept track of the time involved (and I now know why no-one else around here has a white picket fence.)
Hours below exclude installing the posts and swinging the gates:
- Front entrance
- number of pickets - 110
- paint pickets - 28 hrs
- install pickets - 17 hrs
- install rails - 7 hrs
- paint rails - 5 hrs
- sand pickets - 5 hrs
- shape tops - 3 hrs
- average = 59 minutes/picket
- House gate
- number of pickets - 60
- paint pickets - 9 hrs
- install pickets - 9 hrs
- install rails - 2 hrs
- paint rails - 2 hrs
- sand pickets - 2 hrs
- shape tops - 1 hrs
- average = 42 minutes/picket
Two things I discovered:
- Things always take longer than I think they will. (I did already know that.)
- I do get quicker as I go. (Thankfully.)
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| Rolex and the eastern gate |
