 It's not time much. Oh, rail's done. We've got to go off and get a gate today. We're going to try and get a gate up down that end by the garage. This is what's left of the muck. There's probably a grab wagon load here, about 18 tonne, and we've managed to get rid of it. We've probably got rid of about 10 tonne there just by putting that gravel board in. We'll be able to come all the way around and build a garden up. It's not level but it's better than it was. This was a hell of a slope here. It's just a slope straight up. So this is going to get tidied up eventually. We're going to concrete along here. But the curbs have got to be due to the media curb work, so some of these will be coming out. There's no point doing it until the final top coat tarmac's done. That could be a while. We're going to finish the last side bit now to the gate. All right, we're back again on another ghost slope because it's bloody freezing. We've just got this section to do now and dug that out. We're just going to put a flag in their temporary. All these boards, because we've got the gravel board in, we've come up five inches so all these boards were in the soil. So I put a gravel board behind and then lifted them. It's putting back in. Although this fence is much better than the original fence and we're managed. Ground workers came over this morning with the digger. Two dumpers took about 10 minutes. Done. That saved us a few hours and balling eight to into a skip and obviously saves us the price of the skip as well. So so there's the finished article in the front. This, as I think I've mentioned this before, is getting dug out and concreted but not until the top coat's been done because there's a good chance the edges will be coming out before the, obviously the kerbs are coming out and redone. So once all that's been redone then we'll come back and do that. So it's just build the gate and build it ourselves out of the treated 3B2 and the boards and then we're going to make it 2900. It's going to be a big gate but the garden's not finished so we're going to get it big enough to get a little mini digger in without starting taking the fence back down again. So we're going to put three foot gating but we're going to make one a bit wider basically. So then because this is wonky it's not straight. We're going to put our post in here. Have to get it from there up to a new post and then have it opening in against the fence. We don't want the gate opening. The pieces make it open out but you don't want the gate opening into your drive when you've it's a shared drive. So if there's another car there it's going to be tight. So as I say opening in that way and we're just going to chuck a flag down there temporary. Just seem to get it back and forward to the wins. So when Alex gets back we're going to go and pick up the stuff we need another three bags of post mix and just a little piece of 2B2 to go on here for the gates to close against. I think that's it. A new gas for the gun. And then all these these are going on Facebook to get sold on. Nothing wrong with them. They're only less than a year old or pressure treated or denailed. So there's a fence there for somebody else. Only if I was putting it up I'd do a hit and miss both sides so it's private. I'll alternate the boards. So that's it for now. I'll just go to town that's where I'll build this gate. I've just been off for a shopping spree. I've been and got these. I don't know what that's called. That's the one on top of the gate. So we've got a padlock to go with that. Padlock's on the floor. Padlock. I've got hinges to hang handles. All carbonized. That's called a cabin hook for when the gate when you've got the gate open keep it open. And then two heavy duty hinges which are going to be we're going to need them because they put the size of the gate. I think what is it 1100 wide. So it's going to be wide enough to get a digger in. So we just need to put the stays in and it's ready to go. And then we've got one more post to put in which we'll do today and then we'll hang the gate tomorrow and get everything finished. We shouldn't have been finished yesterday but it's just that cold. There's no Russian we've got nothing else to do. So we'll get these stays in now. 10th of January. It's finally throwing out and we're going to finally finish this gate. Yeah we've got a few bits to finish off. We've got the handle to put on. A couple of bits put down the sides there to cover the ends. Gonna put a couple of flags down there just to give them some stand on. Getting that bit then and with a big reveal. Right quick recap. Let me show you what we're doing. Here's our handles. Pretty straight forward. Great. The little square bar that goes through. Well this is about 20-30mm too short. So we're just going to this is 12mm no 10 maybe 12mm bar. So we're going to cut it to length. Square the ends off with the grinder and then take the thread off because we've got another 10mm wood bit. This is the next size that we've got which is 16mm which is probably a bit too big. Let's see how we get on. But this is this is the first job. Get this cut down ready. Roo's arrived as we present off Sarah from the Fat Voice Limgig. I'll actually just de-nail him while I get sorted here. I'm going to get this all finished and then have a soil outside to get the soil off the path. Right I've tried the 10mm and it's not a pin so we're using the 16mm. Just missed it. Well caught it but not jammed anything. So that's not straight is it? There's plenty of plane anyway so. Yeah. There's probably one straight with the nail sent it off the line. Yeah put this back on the clamp. Uh yeah I need to cut it down. Right a little drill through. I've got one end done. So that's sitting nice now. Hold on a sec. Here we go. Get this one fixed and then we can pull it back out and cut it to length then. And by that side to cut short. It shouldn't the lock side be on this side? Oh yeah. With the handle sorry. They're up to that. Just hold it there. What do you need to line it up to? Oh what do you have here Alex? Like hold the gate for me. Got it. I've got two screws there. Should do this. So we need two more screws as well don't we? Have you got four? I've got four yeah I've got two. Oh have you? Good. Good screws are like self-tappers. Needs to be up doesn't it? Yeah just give your room to lift the latch. Mm-hmm. And keep it straight here. We might need to lower this. Yeah. So that it'll catch. And it'll just like catch on yeah. Yeah sorry. It'll do anything. Beautiful. Just a bit of wobble on that isn't it? That'll be all right. Can't be more wobbly than what was here. No that's true. Might just put the rest of that post on the bottom of that. Here? Yeah. Just to give it a bit of stability. Gets slamming against it. Yeah. Right now we need to get the other handle please. The right side. Where'd you put it? Oh I see. So we need to piece the timber in here to sit this on. We'll sort that out later. So that'll do for now. Next problem. Do we get the handle out? All right we've got our whatever it's called. Now our handle obviously won't fit flat. So we've got to cut a piece of a feather edge board just to stick on here and fix that too. We'll do that now. There you go. The other piece we're using? Yeah. Just put that inside the garage just to see how it goes. Sods lore. Starting to thaw. So it rains instead. What I've done is I've notched that out with the trusty multi tool. I never knew I needed one of them to look on it. Can't do it without it now. Great thing that. So we've notched it. So we're going to put some wood glue on that and then fix the handle with two long screws on this side and two short screws on that side. And that'll sit nice and flat. So we'll get that done now. I might put the other way up actually because that's the cut end at the bottom. So it's not getting the weather on it. All right get that done. I don't have the ugly works in the wet. There we have it. Nice solid fence. Nice and private. And this is the drive. Followed round. This section is next door. What we've stripped it and overboard it's what all matches. Put a couple of flags down temporary till the garden gets done. And this is the new garden. And that all that black is new. It's taken from the grass verge. I think they gained 10 foot. So it's a 30 foot wide garden now as opposed to 20. And we've managed to grab a board, put about 10 tonne back in. Pretty much leveled it up. There's the old fence line. With the wiggly wobbly fence lift. Now I've got 110, 61 boards to get rid of. All in good knit because they're all pressure treated. Here's our gate which is 1100 wide to make it dig approved. So when they get the garden done they'll get a mini dig through there. Just hope it doesn't swell too much. If it does we'll just have to adjust it slightly. How's it going? Get to that mischief over Christmas. And as I said this is the first day in 15 days where we've had a thaw. That's pretty much the last of the snow.