What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.
And those damn screws.
It’s a post post
So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.
Submitted 4 months ago by splintertank@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hamartia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it’s beyond the pale!
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I’m on the fence about that one.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You can easily get rid of those nails sticking out with just a hammer.
Hit it from the top. Cover your eyes. Hit it from the bottom. Hit it from the top. Off it flies, good luck finding the broken off piece.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 4 months ago
a dremel is really handy for shit like this.
m3t00@lemmy.world 4 months ago
bend them over before they change their mind
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Clinch them like you are building a boat?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bet they don’t own a table saw and this is the length the store sold them at.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Or maybe, they’re trying to make it taller the ship of Theseus way.
SuperEars@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also my first thought! I wanted to do that with a deck once but that’s a little unwiser.
woodenskewer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No table saw needed. You could use a 10 dollar hand saw from horrible freight, measure the length and pull from the finish end and cut it like a normal person.
I guess it’s good he didn’t cut them to match so its stands out for the guy who pulls weeds in between the property lines. They’d be less likely to get stabbed by a 16 penny nail. Even getting scraped by a nail hurts like fuck. Anyone dismissing the nail portion of this job as “ok” or “have a friendly conversation” is missing as many brain cells as the person who fixed this fence.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This is just book-version Hermione Granger
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
book-version Hermione Granger
*Pre-densaugeo
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He probably decided he didn’t have a way to cut those 45 degree angles and so there was no way to make those boards like the rest.
capital@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cut it off the bottom then?
And use way shorter hardware to affix the boards.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 months ago
That’s the joke.
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah I should definitely have included the /s here LOL my bad
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fence of Theseus…
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Buckfence ass bitch
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…
I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. Gen X got to grow up with adults familiar with the pre-tech world and where a lot of things could be and needed to be fixed by yourself, and they grew up with the advent of household technology. From mending fences to replacing a capacitor in a electric motor to fixing your own car. Some of that got passed on to the kids by the boomers. I’m not trying to say this kind of knowledge was common, it was just more common.
I looked at the fence and couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t take the ten minutes to trim the bottom off and buy a small box of the correct nails, but then someone could be in the position of never having been taught to think of those things. Maybe it was just laziness.
So, I appeal to my Gen X brethren - peel yourself and your kids away from the screens and find a way to get your collective hands dirty. Change some brake pads. Fix a fence right. Change the spark plug or oil in a mower. Build a raised-bed garden, even a small one, from scratch. Make the kids do the work they can. Trll them why you chose to do what you did, how you chose the parts, what you need to look out for, etc.
It’s better for problem solving skills, planning, and just understanding how things work. Spare everyone the embarrassment of a shitty fence repair job.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.
Stop bitching about “kids these days”.
More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This isn’t a “kids these days” at all. No need for you to be offended.
It was a request to pass on generalist knowledge from generations that had a lot more exposure to it.
I left plenty of room in my statement with conditional language to allow those with knowledge like this to exist regardless of age, but you went and made it all about you.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I’d hammer the nails back out into their side.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So they have a hammer but no saw
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ain’t that America! Home of the free, baby! Busted old fences for you and me!
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Weird, I assumed this is some British petulance. I wonder.
Soup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pound the nails out so they’re back on their side. Harmless, but gets the point across(maybe).
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I had a uncle who could have cut those perfectly with a chain saw.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its crazy how many peeps here cant see there are two separate fences with a no mans land gap between. It’s really weird because Ive seen this on properties more often then I would’ve expected I would.
One of the most common scenarios ive seen this is when neighbor A has a pool and put the required perimeter fence for the pool but not at the property line. Also the pool and fence would be installed first. Then neighbor B put up a fence after and told the cobtractor to run their property line. I say contractor because they do as told by person paying, if it was diy fence by owner theu wouldve talked to neighbor and butted the fences back to back w/ no gap. It’d explain the neighbor not caring about the protruding screw out the back because they’ve never seen a single person between the two fences the entire time they put the fences up.
Other scenarios are quick fix to contain animal till full fence replacing is installed. Or neighbor with bucktooth fence, from the picture angle, looks like they have no sight line to that part of fence from house and said fucked if I care.
3nthusiast@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Looks good imo.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 months ago
you need to put a one for the stink
3ntranced@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Had similar scenario this summer at new house. Solution? We built a 10 ft fence.
Just add more wall when needed.
dumbass@leminal.space 4 months ago
Does it stop things getting through the fence?
If yes then it’s a legally perfect fence.
The screws is probably the only thing that they need to fix up. That’s a safety issue but besides that, nothing wrong with that fence.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 months ago
So fucking what? If this actually upsets you I am truly jealous of how privileged your life is.
BatmanAoD@lemmy.world 4 months ago
…why are you in this community?
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Mildly Infuriating”