Pricing out privacy fence...

When I landed at our place in 2002, I quickly learned I HAD to put up a privacy fence for the safety of my animals as well as the safety of the little kids who visit their grandparents next door, because I found them once too often in the pasture trying to pet the animals, and a hoof to their forheads would have been a very bad thing.

I went to Home Depot and quickly got discouraged at not only the cost of doing it yourself, but the labor and tools required.  I live in New England and the ground is 90% ROCK...try digging a post hole through THAT and have fence posts spaced out appropriately...ain't gonna happen.

So, I called a fence place that was in the phone book.  They came over FOR FREE, measured out what I wanted, sat down with me and a book and showed me what was available, gave me costs, and said "call us when your're ready." 

You bet your bippie I went with the fencing company.  They had 274 feet of 6' cedar privacy fence completely installed in ONE DAY for under $4000 (back in 2003).  They had the guys, the knowhow, and the proper equipment.  I had to go with metal pipes instead of wood poles because our ground is so wet and rocky, and I thought it would be ugly, but it has worked out absolutely wonderfully.  I haven't painted or stained it either, just let it turn that pretty gray that cedar does.

You can see some pictures of it on my website here:
http://www.perin.org/images/specialnelliewinta.jpg 
http://www.perin.org/Webpics/slides/Frogs%20yum.html

Best investment ever...not only for the safety factor, but also for the privacy, as you can see from the photos, even though we have lots-o-land, the neighbors were just too darned close.  Grab your phone book, look up fence installation companies, and at least get those free estimates.    

• Cost of fence?? - sm
  • Thank you for those of you who gave valuable info! - sm
  • Pricing out privacy fence... - Hayseed
    • Hayseed, thank you so much for sm - jj
      • Kathie and Ellie, sittin in a tree! So adorable. - jj
  • cost of fence - old and tired MT
  • We put up some fencing 20 years ago. sm - T
  • I e-mailed you. nm - Becky
  • fence sm - me2
  • Measure, go to Home Depot and figure it out - sm -
    • Well, thanks for nothing! What is with you people today?! - sm
      • Whoa, what's with YOU? You're asking a bunch of mostly women MTs who probably - don't have a clue about fence cost. (sm)
        • Agree. Wouldn't base $1000s decsion on infor from different parts - of country. May not be same in your area. nm
        • dont have a clue - MT
  • fence - VR MT

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I was once the personal secetary/traveling companion of a famous female author/lecturer who shall remain anonymous.  My main job was to keep people away from her so she could focus on giving her talks, signing books, etc.  I never in my life saw so many people do such strange things to get to a person just for an autograph or to be able to say they "saw her up close" or "touched her" and all that.  And now with cell phones that take photos -- who knows what people would do to this celeb.  Take pictures of her or her chart, say she told them this or that, etc.  Sell the stuff.  If they keep her away from people, there can be no chance of false rumors and possible law suits, etc. in the future for alleged or proven this and that.

The one I worked for --she and I had to HIDE on many occasions to escape people so that we could eat or even just rest.  It made for a fun and interesting job but as a celeb, you just don't get privacy often.  People follow you everywhere -- it was a pain at times and kind of spooky too to see just how far people would go.  

I can understand all these measures.  I have not kept up with her story; really do not know much about her, but if she is ill these policies sound very good for her.  I would want the same for my former boss if she were still alive.  She'd want it too, believe me. 

Today there was a newspaper article by Leonard Pitts.  He wrote about celebrities and their right to privacy.  He specifically talked about Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer and how she knew that info was being leaked by someone in the hospital.  She proved it by withholding some info from all family and friends--that only she and her doctor knew--and the info still got to the gossip rags.  The hospital at first would not release the worker's name due to privacy policies.  Ironic, huh?  She apparently had easy access to the med record since there was a record of her looking at it more than anyone else did.  Eventually the worker was charged but died of cancer before being sentenced. 

Anyway, my question is this:  If an offshore MT did this, could s/he be charged as well, either in their country or ours?  Or would only the MTSO be in some trouble?  I heard an offshore MT a few years back who threatened to release info if she did not get, I believe, an increase in pay, but do not know what the outcome was. 

He has been bullied before but he has gotten really good at standing up for himself.  I literally have given him comebacks that he can use if he is being verbally bullied, and have told him that while he is never allowed to start a fight he is always allowed to defend himself and even though he may get in trouble at school, he will not be in trouble at home.

One time last year (fifth grade) he was verbally bullying a boy in his class.  He said some pretty mean things.  I got the phone number to the boy's house through a mutual friend, called, and then too my son to the boy's house to apologize in person, in front of the boy's parents.  We talked for a long time beforehand about how the boy must feel to have to go to school and have someone say things like that to him, role-playing such as "how would you feel if that was you" sort of thing. He also lost computer priveleges for a week.  He has never bullied anyone else.

However, he did kick a boy in the shin earlier this year when the boy hit him and said he was going to beat him up.  My son is strong but doesn't like to fight.  I think all kids should be able defend themselves if needed though.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction as to how to go about installing a secondary fence/barrier in my yard, what material is best to use, etc.

 My husband and I are trying to avoid spending money we don't have on getting a privacy fence just because our neighbors are idiots and don't feel the need to adhere to the rule of not letting the dogs out at the same time.  We have been in our home for 3yrs now and our dogs have never gotten along. Granted they were here first (as my husband says), but I could care less because our dogs have just aabout that They are rather large dogs, we have two and they have three.  Trying to break the fighting up when it happens is fraught with failure because when they get going its like trying to stop a moving train!

Unfortunately, neither side has the time nor energy to re-train the dogs, so I figure a secondary fence is in order due to the fact that there is already an existing 6ft chain link fence up.  The fence does not belong to us and the neighbors have not taken the initiative to tweak the fence with slats, so it is now left up to us to figure out.  I read that a secondary fence to that portion of the yard is the cheapest, non-permanant thing we could do to solve this problem.