|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
07-30-2007, 05:32 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana
Posts: 4,685
| Finally Have Our Fence Up!! Saturday we finally got the fence up for the furbabies!! It's not perfect, but we have never put a fence up before. My 16 year old son and I dug all the holes for the posts with a post hole digger. We are both sore, but me more than him...Boy to be young again....lol I still need to get some dirt to fill in where the pool was and then add some along the bottom of the fence. The doggies just love being outside.
__________________ Janet |
Welcome Guest! | |
07-30-2007, 05:37 AM | #3 |
and Bernie's mom too!" Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 8,283
| Yaaaay! Doggie playtime at Janet's house!!! Can we come play in your new "dog park"??? (that's what we call our fenced in back yard, doesn't everybody?) It looks great, and so peaceful!!!!! You can be proud, putting up a fence is HARD work!
__________________ Ginger Bernie Fun Kitty |
07-30-2007, 05:37 AM | #4 |
I Love My Munchkins! Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: My Babies ♥'s!
Posts: 8,765
| Awww, thats great............
__________________ I My Lil Furballs!! Pia Mojo ~ Trixie Murphy ~ Paisley Max |
07-30-2007, 05:43 AM | #5 | |
No Longer a Member | Quote:
If you can't find any dirt, you could maybe use a tractor and shave some dirt from the nearby areas, and fill it in enough to level it out. YOu'll lose some grass and maybe have to seed a little bit, but if dirt is that hard to come by, that might be an option. That hole doesn't look like it would take too much. Now are you ready to stain your fence?(LOL ) If you don't stain it, I'll tell you what is a really easy way to protect it. Go to the hardware store and get one of the cheapest pump style insecticide sprayers (Home depot has one for $9.99). Fill it up with Thompson's water seal, and just go along and water seal the wood. | |
07-30-2007, 05:54 AM | #6 |
It's a Yorkie Thing Donating Member | Good job on the fence. It looks great
__________________ Loving Gizmo, Teddy, Duchess,and Faith : In Memory of My Duke of York 7-24-06 ~6-21-07 and Victorian Lacie Pearl 3-1-07 ~ 4-22-11 |
07-30-2007, 05:58 AM | #7 | |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Indiana
Posts: 4,685
| Quote:
Hey Misty, we have some dirt located, just need to wait till it's dry enough to go get it. It's in the southern part of our county and they got more rain than we did. Do I have to do something to the fence? It was treated when we bought it, but do I still need to do the water seal? I'll have no problem doing that at all and thanks for the tip with the sprayer!
__________________ Janet | |
07-30-2007, 06:06 AM | #8 |
No Longer a Member | You don't have to do anything, but over time, it will lose its pretty golden color and begin to grey and splinter. Also, any sprinklers that hit areas will bleach out some of the wood's natural coloring. When we first moved in here, I loved the color of our cedar fence, and wanted to keep it natural. I did use the Thompson's, which lasted for a little while, but you have to keep it up--every year or so. I didn't, and it started fading, plus we had a huge white spot where one sprinkler hit it all the time. So my husband finally got out there and stained the whole thing. It is a big job though (especially since you have both sides of the fence; here in our tract home, the other sides belong to the neighbors on their respective sides). I think it took him several weekends to finish. |
07-30-2007, 06:06 AM | #9 |
Keep Me Away From eBay Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Arizona
Posts: 2,109
| fence looks great!!!
__________________ There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face!! |
07-30-2007, 06:29 AM | #10 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: INDIANA
Posts: 4,449
| Fence looks great!!! I'm sure they are so happy to run & play. You can always run landscaping timbers along the bottom to keep them from getting out too. Hope you're not too sore. lol |
07-30-2007, 06:43 AM | #11 |
& Reicher Baby, too! Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Charleston, SC
Posts: 1,675
| Looking good! It's always fun to do a big project and realize how much hard work you put into, and then you appreciate it that much more! Very nice, and I'm sure your furbabies will love you even more for it!
__________________ Teri, Reicher , Kobi , Killian |
07-30-2007, 07:18 AM | #12 |
Slave to My Rug-Rats Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Long Island
Posts: 7,247
| Janet - AWESOME!!! Playing Outside = Fun |
07-30-2007, 08:07 AM | #13 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Wow I'm impressed!!!! Looks great
__________________ Cali Pixie Roxie : RIP Nikki; RIP Maya;RIP my sweet Dixie girl 1/17/08 http://callipuppyscastle.bravehost.com/index.html |
07-30-2007, 08:10 AM | #14 |
~*Glamorous Daisy*~ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NJ // NYC
Posts: 4,010
| Impressive! I hear those "post hole diggers" take ALOT of strentgh and work! I gotta get on hubby's case on them for our house..we don't have a fence yet.
__________________ MissPinkBarbie The PiNK Club Founder |
07-30-2007, 08:12 AM | #15 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Fence Job You should be very proud of the job you did. Looks great! The things we do for our furkids.
__________________ Jack Jilly Bean Who Needs A Doorbell When They Have A Yorkie!!! |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart