Mid April the proposed start date for building the fence was in two weeks time, so early May. Early May it became a week later, and that week later no start date could be given any more. Disappointing. We will do it ourselves, then. (Expletives..)
Pity, as we could not have started earlier anyway, we needed to prepare the old house for the sale photos, move stuff to Aargh, while he would already have been working on the fence. Now we can only start working on the fence after the preparation of the old house. Two weeks lost. Probably longer, because we cannot do the fence in two weeks. He could have.
Anyway. Here we go.
Fence 1
Mesh on the wall between us and the street. That is all along our border, 60 cm high. Good to screw on poles. Down the wall is a concrete ridge that the wall is built on. That is very handy. So we use an iron corner that we insert in a pole, and bolt that onto that ridge to fix the bottom side of the tube. The pole is shortened, so the lower hole is 10 cm above ground level. Two more clamps bolted to the wall secure the pole.
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Fence 2
Mesh on poles that need to be dug into the ground. A hole of 30x30x30 cm needs to be dug for each pole, filled with concrete, pole inserted, etc. Engineer Jansen bought a new toy: a hammer-drill, or a drill-hammer:
It has 3 settings: 1. rotate, 2. rotate + hammer, 3. hammer only. That last option is what engineer Jansen needs to break the very hard dry soil in Cabrera. First one May 22, above.
Concrete
Today, May 28 there are 20 holes dug 30x30x30 cm for upright poles. Still need to do holes for the 45º support poles that need to be installed on corners, and some in the middle, every 12,5 meters. So, 10 more for those.
That means: 3x3x3 = 27 liters concrete per hole, 30 x 27 = 810 liters concrete total. Hmm. That is a bit more than not anticipated. Needs some thinking. And quite possibly assistance. With a cement mixer you can do this in a day.
