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How To Build a Modern Horizontal Privacy Fence - DIY Friendly Project

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  • Hand Shovel
  • Post Hole Digger
  • Utility Mark Out

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right so now we're just digging our holes i marked them out we're doing posts every six feet here now to set up this line coming straight off of the house we set a pin all the way down there measured we were about an inch and a half away from the foundation and then pulled the string out and checked it at the corner made sure we're still an inch and a half out so we have a straight line coming off the foundation intersecting with our other string line so that's going to be our corner and now we just dig the holes and luckily uh ground's pretty soft so it shouldn't take too long then we'll get the set in post [Music] like i said make sure you get a utility mark out because our gas line cuts right through here so with these two posts i'm going to dig them out with this just loosen the dirt a little bit at a time it's worth spending an extra 10 minutes on this hole then possibly hitting a gas line and exploding the whole neighborhood we do not want that pat do we want that exactly we want to blow it up with this beautiful fence design but not with natural gas so we're being extra careful right here all right so we've got our

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