East Fence Alignment

 The East Side Fence is the bottom of the property.  There are more rotted post in this area than all the rest of the fence.  The fence line was pretty messed up, so the first thing to do was to get the fence back in line...  Notice the blue line in the picture.  That is where the fence should be, sort of...

 The rotten pasts can be leveraged to make the fence straight again.  Posts usually rot right at the base of the post where it sits in the concrete slug.  The rot starts at that line but travels up and down, leaving a weak spot right at the ground level.

Of course the top of the post comes off, but you can dig down into the concrete slug and remove the rotten post there.  In this case the center of the post had composted into dirt.  This leaves a hard footprint to hold a temporary post.  I was was able to dig into it a few inches, but that is enough to hold the bottom end of the post temporarily.   Replacing the floppy, rotten post with a solid post puts the foot of the post in the right place.

 With the bottom end of the fence in line now we get all the posts plumb.  You get the long construction level, go down the line making each post plumb.  This is a little more than just pushing the fence in a repair.  I have been adding support posts, and also using old support posts.  Some of these repair posts are in the wrong place, so I have to shim the bones to fit the fence line.  Then we have a straight fence, and can begin adding new support posts, and repairing broken posts.