Had a go at Cleft Chestnut Fencing

[liamjordan]

This was our first time doing this type of fencing and i loved it! Looks awesome!

Fell and split all the materials ourself, was good fun and in such a nice location! My boss (my second cousint) great grandparents lived in that house so it added a bit more satisfaction to the job.

[Billy68]

good job shame about the house is that your next job

[tractorboy1]

Nice looking job

[tommer9]

Gorgeous mate!!!

[Tommy_B]

Sweeeeeet!!!!

[liamjordan]

cheers guys! heres a few more pics

[Joy Yeomans]

i will probably sound a complete idiot, but is the chestnut seasoned or not, if green do you have to cut your lengths longer to allow for drying/shrinking?

 

looks loveley ace, just the job.

joy

[easy-lift guy]

Really looks nice, bet the building could tell some stories from the past as well!

elg

[liamjordan]

i will probably sound a complete idiot, but is the chestnut seasoned or not, if green do you have to cut your lengths longer to allow for drying/shrinking?

 

looks loveley ace, just the job.

joy

you dont sound like an idiot, we didnt really know what we were doing making it up as we went along aha, the wood wasnt seasoned as such, it wasnt straight out the ground we fell it just over a year ago,

 

you can see in some of the pics some of the rails are right through the mortices so shrinking should not be a problem, they shouldnt come out of the two mortices

[Frankie Lawrence]

Maybe this is just an opinion of how people do it but when morticing the posts have two holes as a mortice and put a rail to the opposite side. Hope that sort of makes sense.chestnut post and rail fencing tate fencing

 

Looks good anyhow I hope im not telling a grandmother how to suck eggs:blushing: