Fence Build Easy | 700ft No Concrete in 5 Days with Fast2K

Husband & Wife Team built 700ft of Kentucky 4-board fence in five days with Fast2K post-setting foam! No concrete mess, weight, or clean-up. Follow us as we learn how to build the fence and what we do to improve along the way.

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[genecarr]

Great job on the fence. Here is a suggestion for you. Use an old farmer's trick to preserve your fence for a lifetime. Stain and wood sealers can get really expensive. Farmers would mix burnt motor oil and diesel fuel (50/50) and applied it to all of the fence (including the tops, no caps needed). It can be brushed or sprayed (which is a little messey). It soaks in and looks like an expensive stain. I have used it and it works great. The motor oil you can generally get free at many shops. Also, carpenter bees and woodpeckers won't touch it. The pretty much destroyed my deck which was treated lumber painted. You can always try a sample and see how you like it. Good luck.

[valeriyfetesku]

Guys you are super bravo God bless your bisnes like.

[mattwilliamson]

This video seems like a good resource for others to watch and learn from.👍🏻👍🏻

You started out on Day 1 saying you were "rookies, " but you didn't do very badly... pretty well in fact. Looks better than some jobs I've seen "Professional fence contractors" do. The way you did it in this video is probably the best way for beginners to emulate: will keep them from making bad mistakes, gives them time to fix anything they catch (which will prevent them compounding any mistakes), wastes the least amount of lumber, gives them the most options if they want to change anything, and most importantly: will gets them comfortable doing all the right things well & doing them in the right order. 👍🏻👍🏻

I've built some fences over the years; was blessed to learn some from my Dad and some from some older men I worked with/for. None of them would use concrete on their posts either, and I bet (if they were alive) they'd be just as intrigued by that Fast2K as I am. What we'd do instead was dunk the bottom of every post in roofing tar and roll the excess 6" up above the posthole depth with cheap throw-away rollers (did this before posts went in the hole... & no one thought about long-term effects of leaving tar in the ground back then, although... it would be mostly hardened by the time we sunk them because we'd do it a few days ahead of time, or if it was raining and we wanted to keep dry). Appears that your Fast2K hole-filler stuff is doing a similar thing to our tar, but instead of us needing to bend over while filling and tamping every hole, this auto-fills and tamps all in one process... while you get to stand up, rest your back, and keep everything level; pretty slick stuff. The time and bodily energy-savings is a pretty big positive... I'll have to get a few of those corner levels and try this product the next time I do a fence. (We typically sunk posts down to 3' to hold livestock & a minimum of 4' deep for head chutes and livestock pens.)

Didn't see your whole process in the video (what I saw was enough, did a great job editing in the good stuff and editing out the tedious things), but having built many, many miles of fences, a typical process of mine would be very similar to what I saw of your process in the video... something like:
(1) Have enough string & run the entire length at once.
(2) Use a 100'-250' tape reel & paint an X at the center of every hole first (a "V" works too).
(3) After setting the gate posts and 2 on each side of it exactly, then continue on by auger-ing every 5-10 holes at once... of course, if it's not just me (& must have a decent helper) I'd do more. (When the forecast didn't call for rain I've even done all my holes on full 1/4-mile runs at once, but had to keep the string up off the ground, strung very tightly, and a few rods or t-posts like yours to keep the string from blowing & keep the runs true.)
(4) Drive the materials trailer down the run, drop all the posts off the trailer exactly where I'll need them (with post ends ~1' from the hole and pointing at each hole... so I only have to stand up the top end, move it a little, & drop it in after the holes are auger-ed),
(5) Use no more than 2 quality screws per joint (only 1 screw if I'm going to cover the ends like you did... the 2nd screw would be thru both the cover- and rail-boards). Like to to predrill ends of boards and use screws because (even though quality exterior screws are more expensive and take a LOT longer) they hold better over time. If I can save a lot of time down the road by spending a little more effort, time, or money today (and I can afford to spend it up front) I will... especially since I don't like to go back and fix things later... standing there fixing things knowing I could've done better the first time.
(6) Stagger my rails to spread out the joints. Some folks don't stagger & it works for them, but have found that full boards running across a post have left a whole lot less "flex" in the finished fence than having all the joints on every-other post did... the entire run feels significantly stronger when it's done staggered. Having lived in tornado & hurricane areas, the least amount of flex in a livestock fence was an important part of my applications (alternating rails 1&3- and 2&4-together across the whole run). Side benefit of staggering joints puts the same amount of holes in most all the uprights rather than having every-other post look like a pin-cushion. Have gone back to fences I'd put up 20+ years earlier and saw the dried out posts shrank and cracked a lot more where the holes lined up vertically (on the grain of the upright posts) than they did with fewer holes or ones that were staggered across the grain. (Even doing barbed wire, barbless wire, hog wire, horse wire, chicken wire, & rabbit wire (all with staples), prefer to put the staples on an angle that doesn't line up in the grain.)
(7) Use a half-X brace outside gate posts like you did to take out flex... If I have the lumber, prefer to put full X-bracing across each of the 2 openings on both sides of every gate & corner, rather than just the first... gives it a bit more strength if someone taps the post with their bumper when driving thru it & keeps the entire fence from moving/twisting.

One of the old timers I learned from would always make his gate posts high... tie off to the top & run a tight cable out to the end of all his gates (his opinion was holding the weight off the end of the gate made the holes around the hinge pins hold better and last longer). He also cut the top of every post on some kind of angle and painted/sealed them with both paint (or tar) and (usually copper) caps. Not sure about all his theories, but he was 96 & a lot better fence builder than I ever was... all of his gates were hung with cables and would naturally swing closed. His gates always swung perfectly both directions too (I like mine to close against a post so the entire gate is supported by the strength of the post). Another thing he did differently: where I like lumber for X-bracing, he put top- & bottom-boards horizontally across the inside the spaces (2 spaces out on both sides of his gates & corners), then used barbless wire (pulling from outside of the posts), twisted it very tightly, & the barbless became his X-bracing between the posts. (Seemed like a lot more work than X-bracing & I didn't see much added benefit, but that old man was a genius... showed me how to nail cedar shake shingles and never split them, how to never mash a finger with a hammer, and a lot of other little tidbits too.)

Anyway, I hope none of the above came across as my opinion on how you should have build your fence. I've built mostly stock fences (no matter how well I tried to build them, the livestock always win... & find a point of failure)... & know that there aren't any perfect fences or fence-builders. That was just the "Cliff-notes" of the process I think thru first, plus some of other ways I've seen similar fences done. If something helps you or someone else here, I'm glad. If nothing helps... well, sorry about that, but I had fun writing it and remembering the old-timers that were willing to put time into me when all I knew how to ask was, "Why?" Hope I didn't come across as an unwanted bull in your china shop. 😂😂🤣

Have never heard of your channel before today, this video came up in the suggested list on the side, and this is the first video of yours I've seen. The quality of your video was great, it was well-paced, and even though you said you are "rookie" fence-builders... it was obvious you put a lot of thought into what you wanted, extensive research into how to do it, and ultimately came up with an excellent solution to your needs. I'll be sure to watch more of y'all's videos. God Bless! 👍🏻👍🏻

[donutman]

Damn good job you two! Really love seeing the two of you working and building things together! You just don't see that in this day and age and I love it.

[Bsdad]

Great video Sir! Well done, lots of attention to detail, drone footage was excellent! Thank you for taking the time to film and document your build. God Bless

[CB_RITC]

This is my second time watching this, it looks great, I am getting ready to do the same thing in a couple months.

[ericminter]

I build fences for a living and I can say that you did everything correctly and the results were great. great content and a job well done.

[PineyGroveHomestead]

Nice transformation of the front of your property, Tony! I'm impressed by the fence build and by how your dog just hangs out with y'all and doesn't wander off!!

[jaimelago]

Congratulations both of you do an awesome job the fence looks beautiful I liked

[Bodhranarama]

Time to sit back with something long and cold and feel good about turning all that out. Great thumbnail too!

[stanleyconrad]

That fence certainly does make the property “pop”. Lots of work and expense, but not a cookie cutter home site. Thanks Chief for sharing and allowing your wife to assist you. 😳 We all know who’s in charge. Field Marshal Gizmo!

[kevinbuie]

That is a great looking fence!!!! Y’all did such a good job!!!

[MartyHundley]

Love this channel! You folks are an awesome team. God has blessed y’all abundantly!

[TheCowthryn]

Excellent video! I'm sold on the Fast 2K! Will use for our upcoming fence project once I get up the courage to connect our auger attachment to the tractor. Gotta binge watch how to video's on that first. And cute dog! Looks like he did a good job supervising the project ;-)

[richardreed]

Wow.Great job guys .Love the Kentucky fence.God bless and much love from Chester co.😇

[mr.riceguy]

I'm new to homesteading. I haven't built a fence since i helped my dad as a teenager. This is exactly the info I needed. Thank you!

[davidlinux]

This the coolest video I have seen on here. What a great job you two did. Thank you for providing such useful information for us less then useful do-it-yourselfers (speaking of myself only here).

[jjacres]

Yup I’m going to use that stuff on my next section of fence nice job you guys

[TheDogLife]

I found having a hand pull wagon makes life easier as you can drop scrap right in as you go and do a lot less bending. Great for pruning, tools, drinks etc.
I can't bend like I used to so I take all the help I can get to still get things done.

[Malpeque_Bay_LX]

Great job on the fence and really nice teamwork.