hey guys welcome back to the channel today we're gonna give you a glimpse inside how to make another fence I know we've got one on this channel before however this one so simple three stockade panels pre-made one has been cut in half to make those two gates let's see how we did it oh and by the way I've got new t-shirts guys you can always get me original Matt a glimpse inside org but we've got new ones right here Keep Calm and make on it's a little email signature I give out through all my emails if you and I have been in contact you'll note I'm talking about those shirts are available in limited supply check the link below and let's get this project underway hey guys welcome back my name is Chris and today on a glimpse inside we are gonna make a new fence and gate right behind me there's something that has to get torn down now I know I have a fencing gate on this channel before but that was a very big project a very daunting gate a lot of people say oh I wish I had the time the patient is the skill to do something like that this is going to be made from three fence panels one of those is gonna be ripped right down the middle and we're gonna make a gate out of that by reinforcing the back so much simpler so much easier we're gonna give you a glimpse on how we do this today so guys join us today and also no flip-flops shoes today hopefully you guys like that let's go all right let's get this underway after a quick trip to the big box store I picked up four two by fours to landscape timbers three stockade panels and a few extra pickets and also four four by fours to replace the fence posts though there's a few ways you can go about disassembling an old fence you can use a drill or a screw gun to unscrew all the screws or you can use in this case I use the mini sledge and that seemed to work just fine as well with the fence post out of the way now it's time to remove these four by fours and I looking for me the previous homeowner didn't use any cement so you just wiggle these back and forth a little bit and they come right out well until the last one I tried I broke it off turns out it handsome too in it 20 minutes later got it out now I want to dig four new holes to install these posts what I'm doing is I'm taking my weed eater here and I'm kind of tilling up the ground I'm gonna rake it flush to give me a good starting off point I take a measurement of the span and it's 23 feet two inches that's perfect as you see me here I'm using an 8 foot 2x4 to kind of give me a reference somewhere it did my post but the 23 feet is great because it affords me 2 by 3 pre-made stockade panels and I'm actually able to rip one in half or a little bit less than half to go ahead and make those two doors as I'm thinking these post holes I'm taking very careful measurements here that each one is 30 inches in depth now I'll explain why here just in a second so check this out alright guys so in my previous video somebody called me a because I didn't put any foam or concrete in these posts so we're gonna try this okay I've never done it before here's hoping it works and maybe this time I won't be a so this mixture comes in a two-part bag you simply roll up one side it breaks the seal in the middle you then squeeze both sections together for 15 seconds you can start to feel the bag become very hot actually as this happens so half the contents go in one closed half the contents going the other and within about one minute I'm gonna bring in here you can see this foam starts to rise up so while this stuff is sitting I got three minutes you can make small micro just lather rinse repeat we're gonna break the seal in the middle we're gonna blend the two parts together and this stuff does get hot they say you can't leave it uncut or the bag might explode maybe that should be another YouTube video I don't know anyway I'm gonna go and let the foam come halfway up on this one and then set the plumb making sure they're all level after about thirty minutes I'll go ahead and trim off the excess I'm just using a serrated paring knife here and I'm gonna go ahead and trim it down to the level in which the ground is gonna be nothing too fancy here just cover it up with some dirt when you're all finished just like I did there now it's time to fill in the post holes that were originally there clean up a little bit make it a little bit more tidy before we install the fence panels alright time to install the first panel this is a very simple process I'm gonna go ahead and install these three inch screws right through to the fence post this isn't going to be the final method of installation I'm actually going to use the five inch lag bolts once one side is installed I'll make some micro adjustments to level it up run around to the other side and install those screws as well here are the five inch lag bolts I was speaking of and I'm going to do three per post I repeat the same process on the other side installing the fence panel as well just the same way of course I tried to do a one-day build and it starts to rain well you got to love this fickle floral weather not a big deal though we're gonna get back to it just in a second gonna grab some lunch and we'll get back to building all right the rains cleared up and now I'm gonna go ahead and rip the stockade panel not quite in half I'm cutting these pieces to give me the exact measurements I need for the space that I have again it's about seven feet or so so I'm basically not gonna use one foot of the stockade panel to make these gates now at this point I'm gonna bring my miter saw out here you can do this whole project with a speed square a circuit of assault of a drill however it's been raining on and off all day and I'm trying to get this done just a little bit faster so I'm using the help of this miter saw to cut these landscape timbers and a few two by fours in the future now these landscape timbers are cut to the length of the span between the two fence panels I'm gonna go ahead and dig a trench to set them in kind of making a makeshift threshold as you will I'm gonna need these landscape timbers to actually be a part of the locking mechanism that's gonna be in one of the gates you can see I installed it leveled it pack some dirt in there and now we're good to go so add some ducks fly overhead I'm gonna take some measurements to make the essentially the Boxton frame for the gate these two by fours are all cut to length I'm gonna clamp them down install them of inch and 1/4 screws but the gate isn't quite finished there we need a little bit more strength than it were a little more lateral strength if you will so I'm gonna take another 2x4 and I'm gonna lay it diagonally across the panel make a few marks and then take my circular saw set it to the depth of the two back three right here and make a few cuts and then knock this piece out with a hammer just like that pull the nails out with some channel locks and now we're good to go now go ahead and make these cuts right here on the miter saw as well and now it's time to install it all right with the piece cut the link now it's time to install this diagonal support I'm gonna go ahead and toenail or toe screw this piece in I'm not sure what you call this technique but I'm doing it anyway I'm gonna flip it over install a straightedge and put two screws per picket all the way across the diagonal piece and I'm gonna do the same process on the other gate this gives the piece much needed strength and it worked out pretty well alright now to install the hardware here's what I'm doing I'm taking some scrap pieces of I'm installing them in to tipperary into this landscape timber I rest the gate on those pieces one they raise the gate up to give me the clearance I need to it's kind of like a second hand for me to install these hinges well I guess I didn't film that last part but as you can see here I had to add a little piece of 2x4 to accommodate the screw for the hinge and then I repeat the same process on the other side sometimes when you're working by yourself you've got to think outside the box and use techniques that work for you this is how I simply did it maybe you can find a better way I don't know I like how it work though this left gate is gonna be the one that's gonna be locked in place into the landscape timber so I put a backer board on the back of that gate now I'm using some blue tape to help me install the hardware that's gonna lock this gate together once the lock is installed I don't like the look of the bottom so I'm going to clean it up by cutting some of these pickets to the length of each of the gates and install them with some screws on the very bottom I simply use a squeeze clamp on one end level it with the other repeat the same process on the other side gives it a nice clean look alright guys let's talk about a couple things one being the fact that this fence panel and this fence panel are not the same height and that's because the ground itself is graded down away from the house and honestly I could have written the ground back up I could have graded it back up but I don't have much time to do these projects I got a wife three children full-time job I do this on the side and this is about what I can do in one day and I think it turned out pretty great so I'm gonna leave it at that but there is one more step we're gonna do I'm not gonna do it today it's about to rain again I wanted to get all this done in one day but I got one more afternoon and you're gonna see what I do right now well I try to give this in one day I couldn't quite manage due to the rain do they have in watch the kids for a little bit but I'm gonna spend about 30 minutes here getting the rest of it finished I got to put a locking mechanism down on this gate and then we'll tie the whole thing together so let's do that now first step in installing this locking mechanism is to mark where I need to drill the hole here's the hardware I'm using from the home Center as you can see it's a series of pipes kind of put together I did this on my last fence project and I liked it so much that I figured why not repeat it here so here's the hole we need we're gonna take a one and a quarter inch Forstner bit we're gonna hammer in this actual this I guess we call it collar if you will sometimes we sure I just found it in the plumbing supply area and we're gonna build this section up we're gonna take this elbow we're gonna screw it into this long two foot by three-quarter inch pipe and then it screw in a handle just like this now it's time to install the bracket but first I realize the backer board is it quite thick enough so I make an adjustment and I attach another piece of picked it to the backer with some 3/4 inch screws now here's a look at the C bracket I'm using you can find these in the electrical section of your home Center I'm using some inch and 1/4 panhead screws and actual nuts as washers as spacers if you will to give me some more room to have this thing move up and down free and clear so to keep this locking mechanism from falling down while we're opening the gate I'm gonna screw one more of these violets right Susan leaving about an inch out so that has someone arrests as you can see works pretty well quick design choice I didn't like those old pickets being on the bottom I wanted something a little bit more substantial so I took some 1 by 4 material and attached it along the bottom of the Gators well now it's time to install the handle and then one of these interlocking mechanisms on the other side for a little added security you know so I did say in the beginning that I bought some extra tickets and the reason I did that was you never know when you're gonna need them in this case since I moved the fence back about 3 feet it exposed some of the older fence which is not the most attractive so I'm using that to kind of cover it up to give the appearance of the new fence all the way around and here it is not too bad for this budget-friendly one-day build I'm really happy with how it turned out hey guys thanks for joining us for this project all the way to the end we definitely appreciate your viewership I want to tell you a little bit about this though this project was done not a single moment we spent in the shop I was out here the entire time with a circular saw a miter saw and some drills and we got this thing done in a day maybe a day and a half so I just wanted to put this on the channel I know it seems like a repeat but a completely different build yet very much the same I hope you got some knowledge from this I hope you got some education from this and hopefully it inspires you to get out there and do some weekend projects on your own guys thanks again for watching we definitely invite you to subscribe over here I got a few more videos over here you can watch and also don't forget new shirts down below Keep Calm make on guys thanks again and we'll see you on the next one bye