How to Build a Welded Wire Fence – Easy
After the fence posts, rails, gates, and vinyl coated wire welded fence fabric are installed, it’s time to finish the job. My goal for this fence was simply to contain a dog for now. That’s all that time and budget permitted. The nice feature to this type of fence is that you can always upgrade it later. The ultimate would be to install panels over the top of the welded wire. This would allow for privacy, add height to prevent the dog jumping over, and you would have the added protection of the welded wire. If you have this in mind, keep the post tall to allow for the addition of a third rail to nail the panels too.
The most important part of the finish job is to protect the post. The easiest protection is to top off the post or cut it at an angle. The angle or post cap allows water to run off of the post instead of puddling and rotting the post from the top. Use a reciprocating saw (Sawsall) with a long wood blad to make the angled cuts. After the posts have been up for a few months, add a water repellant finish to the wood. Water kills the fence, anything that you can do to protect will make it last longer.
Angle Cut On Top For Water Drainage
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Hey, cool site and good info. Thanks for posting. One question I still have is how to attach the top and bottom rails to the corner post. Didn’t see any corners in your fence. Want to keep all the rails attached to inside of post, so am guessing a 2×6 scabbed on the outside of 4×4 corner post is my only option. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Also would like to add that I chose to sharpen the end of my post with a chain saw and drive them into the ground like giant tent stakes, (of course that was before the summer heat had baked the ground to the consistency of asphalt). Traded the cost of concrete and the time of digging holes, for sore back and arms from the homemade post driver (weighted mettle tube with handles and a cap on one end, same as you’d use to drive steel post only larger).
Anyway, thanks again for posting.