He had worked it out on paper, used the on-line fence calculator to estimate exactly how many posts we would need, knowing exactly how far apart the posts need to be (7 feet, 9 inches on center). Even with all that, we drove the little SUV and lawn tractor around and around, as the string lines were moved, changed, moved again. He weed-whacked some of Step #3 because the line was in the wrong place. I can't say how may times we walked around and around and around these new pastures.
With the fall line the string would hit the ground, and not be a true straight line. He needs straight lines, but the property isn't straight, the road isn't straight. Nothing is straight, but these fence lines are!
We then marked each and every post position with brilliant orange paint, 260 times.
We argued a lot, he moved the lines, I moved it back, and in the end we both got our way, and the horses will be the real winners in all of this.
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