Gotta love a large backyard

[Tony Raine]

Hey I'm Tony, got here from the Ecomodder Forum.

This year, I spend one heck of a lot of money putting up a privacy fence around my back yard (about 3/4 of an acre).

Why? To keep out the neighbors, trash, dogs, etc.... plus i like the privacy. so now i have a blank slate to start working on.


here's what i started out with, this pic was taken at the back corner of my property looking toward the house



I'll skip all the "in progress" of the fence building, and go straight to the finish. i still have some little things to take care of, latches and stuff, but its 99.9999% done. I saved a lot of money by hauling all materials myself, and doing all the work. i was even to cheap to rent a digger, so all holes were dug by hand with a $20 post-hole digger.

lets begin the tour, shall we?

out front


open the 4' gate


not enough room? throw that 10 footer open for 14 total feet


just inside the gate, check out the distance to the back


a little turn towards that far left corner


turn around about halfway back, damn thats a long walk! and check out that hand-me-down pool! 18' x 4'


lets resume our trek toward the back of the property and take a trip behind the fence


back here, i still have around 20' x 150' of usable space


got a buddy that does tree work thats going to trim this back about 15' and up around 12'. this will be where my scrap metal and compost piles will be located. eventually i will fence this in with a cheaper form of fence :laugh:


heres the view looking back toward the house from the gate i just went through




now i need to mow it again..............