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After working in a number of these new homes that now have mud/laundry rooms... I'd defiantly like to see a few of these windowed or even glue-chip glass frosted panels... Keeps people from getting nailed in the head when getting shoes on/off...
Thinking safety in a nice asthetic way..
 

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here's an A.M. shot with some light streaming in

and a little view from inside out last night
 

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I was issued my permit this morning! I'm notifying the guys who thought they didn't have to honor the easement and explaining that within a few weeks my fence will be up which will push people on to the easement, it's going to be exciting to say the least
 

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oh my you have no idea...

so I talked to one of the offending property owners and told him what I was going to do, he tried to act indifferent and said he knew he'd need to take down his janky @ss fence and maybe cut a tree down but said "I wont move my well" and yes- that well is in the easement, overall he acted like he knew it was coming and that he was totally ok with it

so then I try to share that info with my backyard nabe, tried to show her potential work arounds, rather than focus on facts she got all indignant with me and borderline threatened me which is totally fine by me

I was hoping to do this in a civilized manner but then again, I'm the 230 pound biker with a deed, survey, and permit which means I'm backed up within and outside of the law, let's dance honey
 

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Had a productive weekend but not as productive as I hoped. I set some posts for the fence and we'll need an auger to set most of them and luckily we have one on my dad's Kubota, we'll plan a day to dig all the post holes and set up to put in schedule 80, 6" or 8" round pipe on my corners about 6' in height, secured in concrete and filled with concrete. One of the boderline threats was driving in to my fence and you're gonna leave a serious mark on your vehicle if you mess with these corner posts.

I'm done being polite to this woman behind us, I think she's mistaken my kindness for weakness and I wont let that continue to be an issue. I took of picture of her using a tape measure to check out my survey markers, they must be accurate cause I didn't hear from her over it.

I've taken a picture to show you that the well and pressure tanks are in the easement, the orange flags are the west boundary of where the road is supposed to be. I don't know what they're going to do about that if anything. Once my fence is in, there is roughly 16' between fence and start of the concrete pad for well, maybe that's enough room for them to work with.

I made a brake to bend my panels and it worked beautifully on the first bend.

I also converted the heavy, large, awkward "gate" for our well shack in to a hinged gate with catch. I was so tired of manually lifting it up and out, now it just swings open.
 

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Looks good so far. If I were you, I would auger those holes on one day, and then concrete them in early the next day so they have a full day to set nicely. You don't want the neighbors to come and mess with anything overnight (like pulling them out). People do stupid things
 

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Has anyone made an outdoor resonance thingy? Like when you blow across a bottle to make sound. I'd like to make something stationary that will play when the wind blows.
 

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We've had an epiphany that should make the fence project go much smoother. The fence will affect 5 neighbors, 1 who says he's fine with it, 1 that will be mad no matter what, 2 that should be indifferent, and 1 that might be mad but we've yet to talk to him.

We believe that we have the right (as does anyone else) to clear and improve existing easements. So we'll notify guy #5 that we're improving the easement on his land. We'll essentially open it up and maybe even pay to have it covered in crushed gravel.

Once done most neighbors wont care that my fence goes up because they were never inconvenienced and had an alternative to use. As for the 1 that will always be mad they can offer to buy another easement from me but it wont be cheap.
 

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the only reason I did not go block wall at this time was cost, I think I will start buying some block with each paycheck, Lord knows I have enough room to store pallets and pallets of it, over time I'll have enough to build the wall around the property, do the same with concrete, it will be similar to dollar-cost-averaging the project, once I have all the materials, I'll get another permit and DIY a block wall, then we wont have to see the neighbors flipping us off :)
 

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I saw a cool type of wall the other day on the Pinterest... I'll have to look again a get the pic for you... Now depending on the price/availability of river cobble rock, why not a gabion rock wall...
The ones in particular I saw were combined block and mesh wall...
Blocks formed a series of wide pillars that buttressed the mesh sections of cobbles... There was a header, I think of steel plate and a cap stone.. But none the less it looked pretty sharp... Seen similar designs that used the gabion substrate for a grass/living wall...

One other cool style was simple and effective... Was gabion pillars and heavy mesh panel sections...
 
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