Frugal fence.

Unfortunately our over protective big dog feels the need to leap over the front retaining wall to bark at people passing by. He never bites but he does growl and i imagine its very frightening to people who don't know he's a big licking goofus. The several foot tall retaining fence should be a good enough boundary for him, but its not. So in dh's limited free time we're building a 3 foot fence. For several months we have had a 2/3 foot wire fence on the side of the property to keep them from running into the street. Its low enough he could easily jump it or rip it down. But he doesn't. The boy just needs a visual boundary.

Fences are very expensive! Thankfully the back of our property is a very tall retaining wall, and one of the sides is already fenced. All we have to fence is the front and one side. We looked at some of the pre-made panels, the one we liked was $70 a panel. We would need 4 on the side and probably 6 in front. $700 plus we would have to buy concrete and corner posts. I'm almost positive we've bought everything we need to build the fence.

Its a very simple fence, we used 4x4s for the corner posts 8-10 feet apart,cemented into the ground, then screwed 2 2x4s between the corner posts. For slats we're hoping to use the wood from pallets. Its the right height. The only issue is when we try to hammer them apart we end up splitting several boards from the pallet. Or all of them. lol We're going to try taking it apart with a saw. If we have to buy the slats it will greatly increase the product cost!

So far our fence total is $276. Including a post hole digger, brackets, and cement mixer for the drill.