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williepep had been talking about fencing in his yard and I had received a couple of Pm's from people asking about our fence we had installed so I figured I would repost the installation of it.

When we moved into the house we hadn't installed any fencing yet and our pug was starting to roam a little to far exploring his new home. So the following spring we decided it was best to fence in the yard. We had looked at several options and decided the cheapest method would be a cedar fence, plus it would look good.

The local supply company was having a sale on posts and rails for 12.99 a set, so we went a picked up some, we also grabbed some 2x3 wire to install on the inside of the fence, that way the dogs couldn't push their way through it

we started on the corner of the berm and ran the fencing to the blackberry bushes to keep the dogs from cutting over to our neighbors, man the yard looks empty

since the posts don't have a 3 point corner we just doubled up a post in the corner and started running it down the bushes, at this point the soil was very dry so we just compacted the excavated soil back in around the posts

we used the roll of fencing as a guide for height and proceeded to just keep working around the yard

when we started getting to the back corner we started running into some water, but nothing to bad

when we started getting closer to the pond we were hitting water as soon as we started digging and compacting the soil back in was futile, so I had my wife go and grab some backs of cement

and we would just compact in a bag around each post as we were setting them

we curved the fence up around the pond

I installed a 6 foot gate into the fence, I wish I had installed a 8 so I could pull our trailer into the yard

and ran the posts right up to the corner, he wasn't happy

We went around and started nailing the down the wire with electrical staples

and I wired on a piece on the gate to keep the pug from crawling through it

the yard was all fenced in

he wouldn't talk to me for a week

price break down, we had bought 50 sets of posts and rails I believe for a total of 650

the 2x3 wire was around 60 dollars

the gate was 69

we spent about 80 on cement

so for about 850 dollars we fenced in roughly a 120x 160 area

compare that to our old house where we had chain link installed on a 30x40 area that cost us 1300 dollars