After planning, changing, planning and more waiting, on Feb 7 2011 the first big changes came to our land - installation of a driveway pipe crossing over the drainage ditch, and our entire front fence!
The
first excavator arrived and wasted no time breaking ground.
We marked a center line between two trees on the council strip, and asked the driveway and fencing teams to work around that.
The driveway was simple enough, but for the fencing we had to work outwards from there - a four meter vehicle gate, a foot gate on one side and a matching panel on the other. We had chosen to have a feature entrance with the not cheap "colonial post and rail" fencing for a few panels either side of the gate, then angled fencing back towards the main front fence line, where it eventually returns to the more economical standard split post fencing.
Our excellent fencing team from Glenn Mumbersons Rural Fencing who
previously built and rewired our other fencing wasted no time getting out the auger and getting stuck in to it.
The driveway was done faster than expected, although builders started turning up for a chat in the days afterwards and told us that the five meter-wide driveway we had opted four wasn't really going to be wide enough for them to turn their trucks in, and as such we later had to get council back to enlarge it to seven and a half (an extra pipe length).
The following day the fencing was taking shape:
And on the third day the finishing touches were going on, such as all the wiring and the chicken wire to keep the animals (ours and others) where they belong:
More pictures soon of the finished product including the gorgeous sandstone walls a local mason built for us.