A post driver is a hollow 2 foot long metal tube with handles and a cap at the top.
How to attach fence rails to posts.
Cut the rails so joints fall at the center of posts and the ends butt together tightly.
Don t cut notches in the posts to hold the rails.
After posts are set the next stage in building your fence is attaching the rails which may also be called stringers.
How to install fence posts.
When attaching rails to the sides of posts use 16 foot rails and stagger them so there is only one joint per post.
It creates a lot of work and weakens the posts.
Add six inches of gravel such as quikrete all purpose gravel to the bottom of the holes gravel provides a solid base for the fence post to sit on and prevents it from coming into direct.
All fences will have a top and bottom.
Along with a 12 long dowelling machine that clamps the rail and pushes it into a dowelling head.
Now reason i say have a fence company dowel and drill for you because we like most fence businesses have a machine that can drill the post laying down with a sliding table and air driving drill.
Screw or nail the top and bottom horizontal rails into the fence posts using either 4 inch wood screws or 18d to 20d nails.
If the horizontal rails protrude slightly at the end of the fence.
Pull the mesh taut and then attach it to the next post working your way from post to post until the fence is complete.
Attach that rail to the fence posts by placing two no.
Fit it over the post lift the tube and ram the top down on the posts.
Fence rails are generally two by fours that are installed between or across posts and are often what the fence boards are affixed to.
4 measure and cut the remaining lower rails.
Spacers on the gate posts between the rails to support the gate hardware.