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Hot take: I swore by using a 6-foot level for every post until a rocky slope in Boulder ate up a whole afternoon.
What finally convinced me was watching an old timer set a perfect line in ten minutes using just a string level and a plumb bob, so now I ask, what's your go-to trick for uneven ground?
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brian86518d ago
Honestly used to be a total snob about my laser level. Thought anything else was a step back. That changed after a fence job on this awful, washed out hill. Saw a guy use two stakes and a tight string with a simple line level. He had a straight reference line in maybe two minutes, and everything just hung off that. It was such a clean fix for the slope. Now I keep that exact setup in my truck at all times, it just works when the ground won't.
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the_avery18d ago
You mentioned that guy with the two stakes and a tight string. That's a classic. When you're hanging everything off that line on a bad slope, how do you handle the actual post placement? Do you measure plumb down from the string for each hole, or do you set the line as your top rail height and work up from there?
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