By Mike:
This post is an ongoing project. We are about 1/3 of the way through with the project, but wanted to show how big of a difference it makes having part of the fence down.
This is a look facing north in our back yard shortly after we moved in. You can’t see much of the fence yet because there is a giant, overgrown bush in the way!
Got the bush taken care of. Now it’s on to the fence itself.
A view looking further back into the yard shows more foliage to deal with later.
Board by board, fence is slowly beginning to come down. I decided to remove it one board at a time for two reasons. First, I didn’t want a hasty demolition to mean leaving behind nails in the yard that might get caught in a lawnmower someday. Second, a disassembled fence is easier to haul away in a truck bed than a messy pile of broken boards.
A close up view of one of the pieces of wood shows one of the many reasons we needed to get rid of this fence. You can see the wood is completely infested with ants.
You can just see how much more open this will make the yard feel once finished.
