Worst day ever was a 90-foot cedar fence in a Kansas windstorm

Got a job near Wichita last spring, supposed to be simple. Wind picked up to 50 mph while we were setting the 6x6 posts. Had three panels, about 30 feet total, just snap and blow over before we could brace them right. Cost me a full day and about $400 in ruined wood. Anyone ever had to salvage a job after weather wrecked it like that?

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andrewwhite6mo ago

That sounds absolutely brutal. I read a story once about a crew in Oklahoma using cargo straps as emergency wind braces on days like that. Sometimes you just have to get creative and eat the cost to save the rest of the job.

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jana_lewis166mo ago

Oh man, that's so true. You see some wild stuff when the weather turns. I watched a crew once use ratchet straps and a bunch of scrap lumber to tie down a whole wall section that was about to go. It looked crazy, but it held through the night. That kind of quick thinking saves the whole project sometimes. You just do what you have to do.

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