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I have been shifted over to the fencing division at Tennis Courts Of New Hampshire. I got to help out with my first fencing project at a multi million dollar home in Wolfboro NH. We are also going to put in a tennis court there but this fence was going around the garden. Half the garden is fruit trees(apple it looked like so far) and the other half is going to be a planted garden. There is a small garage with a beautiful granite potting bench as you are headed to the garden. We use the bobcat with an auger wherever possible otherwise we dig by hand with a post hole digger. I put a picture up with the post hole digger on the end of a rock which my two co-workers were able to pull out of a three foot hole with just the digger! I was sure it would just slide off but they persevered.
So we dig all the holes, set all the cedar posts in, plumb them, back fill and compact the dirt around the post making sure it remains plumb. Then we hang the fencing, in this case 4" square plastic coated mesh on top with plastic coated chicken wire on the bottom. The corner posts and gate posts get cedar 5/4" decking for trim and the same material along the bottom of the fence. I am hoping we end up trimming each post and the seam where the wire and the mesh meet just to dress it up a bit. We have also started building the gates and apparently we are going to build a trellis entry too.

This white plastic fence was apparently an install from last year. It is in a location that is vulnerable to a lot of wind which has knocked it out of plumb, some of the posts have settled, the gates needed adjusting and some of the gate posts needed to be secured so they could not twist when being used(they could twist because they are just set on poles which have several "doughnut" bushings attached to them.

I am enjoying the variety of the work and the people I am working with plus the fact that I am learning new things all the time. I feel like I am slow and too apprehensive about jumping right in on some of what we do but I like to stick with the simple things until I have been able to observe and learn some of the tricks of the trade.