Who let that single guy in there?

There's always that one guy...

I've never done this.

Looks fun!

Sup Roll! Here's the whole picture. Stockade fence comes in 8 ft sections, factory made with nails. Sections are starting to go now from rot and age, I'm just doing temp repairs until such time I will replace ALL the fence. Screws are overkill for already dying fence. To just replace bad sections is tempting, but they need staining in order to match, and the individual boards of matching width may be hard to find anyway.

So temp repairs are called for. Staples will be fine, they'll hold just as well if not better than the original nails. I've been here 11 years and that fence is just starting to go, so I'm convinced the staples will hold till it's time to replace the whole crummy thing. Which actually may begin next year. Screws just are overkill and a waste, really.

Thre is post-and-rail fencing at work (used to be that there were a lot of horses there, and it includes a dressage area). All the rails are held on with tech screws. We are slowly dismantling all of it. The screws can be recycled for other uses (albeit, there are a lot of them). The property is right next to the sea. Few of the galvanised screws are rusty (like about 2% of them). Pretty well like all the other galvanised wire fencing and fittings around the place.

Not saying screws are the answer, just that they appeal to the sustainability part of me and aren't really a waste, if you are prepared to put in the time to insert them and take them out again. Which I know you aren't.

I don't, I'm driving a rental.

Good thing about racing for the university's team is that they pay for the car rental, hotel, and racing fees so I can go get droped. The parents paying $65,000 per year for their kids to go to school here must be proud.

Do you go to school there?

Is it a requirement to wear matching kit?

Only if someone else does.

Yeah, screws are great and that's what I've been using the last few years as some spots deteriorate. But when you have whole sections going bad, screws are a lot of back breaking work. Each 8-foot section contains at least 24 individual boards, which have to be attached to three horizontal frame pieces. That's 24x3 screws per section, and there's a good 5 or 6 sections that need mending this year. That's a lot of screwing.

Replacing the sections would make more sense except for the fact I'd have to hire somebody to help lift and place those suckers. Then it doesn't make sense to just do sections.

I can't believe it hasn't already been suggested.

http://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/imag..._sc7?$splssku$

Premade fence sections generally suck. Full dimensional lumber, stick built. For my fence, I think I used about 3800 screws in a three day weekend. My hand remained curled into a trigger grip form for the next 3 days.

So after a long drought of cycling, I have commenced riding again, with my first brutal ride over the hills south of Binghamton. Yikes, I am out of shape.

More power to you . I can't turn 5 screw without coming down with a 6 month case of tennis elbow. But seriously, why no power tool for the screws? It is pretty standard, no?

Did you break the glass on your emergency gear?

I didn' use a screw driver. I used my corded drill. That is a power tool.

[MENTION=183557]rpenmanparker[/MENTION] may need to see his optician.

It was bad. I cursed. I have not finished the new bike with the 34 -28 wee gear. Instead, I rode the Cinelli, with 39-25 not so wee gear. The difference between wee and not so wee is significant.

Sorry, I thought you were saying that doing it by hand was hard work. My bad. Doing it at all was hard work!

If you wanna build a fence with screws the right way...

http://oldtoolheaven.com/hand_drills/drillimg/d3lg.jpg

:)

Sounds rough.

You're right there. I read right through the trigger finger thing. I expected him to be saying his hand was curled like around a screwdriver and didn't bother to read what he really wrote. 50 lashes.