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sn9
2y ago
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Wooden fences tend to be only a plank thick, so there's no savings like there are with brick walls where the savings come from getting to build a single layer thick.
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Maxion
2y ago
Raw lumber is much cheaper than sawn lumber, though. It's OK to use more, as long as the volume increase and price decrease works out favorably.
helb
2y ago
Yeah exactly… I guess there might be some waviness/height/length ratio where the extra length and the absence of posts evens out.
sn9
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2y ago
John Cook actually goes into the math of that here:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...
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