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Showerthought: I read that a standard 6-foot cedar picket fence uses about 1,200 nails, which I found in a 1998 trade magazine at my grandpa's house.
That number seems crazy high to me, so does anyone have a better count from their own work, maybe for a different style like chain link or vinyl?
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the_patricia21d ago
That "1,200 nails" stat from the old magazine is wild. I saw a modern guide for a basic wood fence that said it was more like 400 nails for the whole thing. Maybe building methods or nail types were just different back then.
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oscar_hernandez20d ago
Oh man, that's a huge difference. I bet the old stat counted every single nail, like for the pickets, rails, and posts all together. Modern guides probably just mean the nails for attaching the pickets to the rails, leaving out the structural stuff.
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