After a few years, I returned to the front gate project to finally complete it. The plan was to line the pipe posts with field fencing. However, I wanted to match the appearance of the rest of the fence by attaching a small fence bar to tie the field fencing off to. I purchased the metal quite a while back but frankly did not want to drag out the generator and welding gear to do it out of laziness. Today, I tackled the project to get it off the list.
The job was rather straightforward and took a couple of hours. I was able to primer the metal but the Rustoleum oil based primer indicates it should dry for 24 hours before being top coated. I'll have to return to paint it black, wait another 24 hours, and then install some field fencing and a line of barb wire across the top to match the rest of the fencing.
The fencing that I'll be using is StaTite50 949-12 12.5 gauge high tensile fencing. It's only available in 660 ft lengths but matches the fencing which was put up originally exactly. I wanted to make it match and plan to use the rest to do more fencing later on.
I returned the next day and repainted all of this newest fence piping. I painted the fence with Rustoleum Semi-Gloss oil based paint. I believe the part number for it is 243995 but it is a little hard to read the can.
Another two days later, I returned to add wire fencing. What I thought was a quick job turned out to take quite a bit of time. So much time, that I did not add the single run of barb wire above the field fence. The job was not ideal in that the wire would pull the paint of the tie off rod when wrapping it. The 2x4 fence stretcher I made did not hold the wires all evenly so that posed a challenge to. However, in the end, it is all installed. I'll need to go back another day for the barb wire along the top and to touch up paint.
