Here is your complete guide to how to Build a Pallet Fence. Explore the best practices in our complete article.
- Pallet fences aren't attractive, but beauty isn't their main purpose.
- Plan on placing the stringers -- the boards on top of the pallet -- parallel with the ground.
- It's possible to place the stringers vertically for a more traditional fence look, but doing so places the pallets' two-by-four struts horizontally, making the fence weaker and harder to build because there's no appropriate way to join the pallets together.
- Plant the stakes just outside the actual fence line, so that when you stretch a string between them, you can use the string as a guide to keep the fence straight.
- Insert a steel T-post inside the corner of the pallet.
- Use a sledge hammer or post pounder to drive the steel post far enough into the ground to bury the triangular fins at the bottom below the ground.
- Place another pallet flush with the second pallet, drive another post and join the pallets with two-by-four blocks.
