What are some cheap alternatives for privacy fences? Seems like everything that comes up on Google are expensive manufactured products. Looking to get some ideas for some cheap alternatives, doesn't need to be pretty, just block view or be paintable (I have a lot of excess paint from an old project) to reduce welding sparks from blinding my neighbors or neighbors pets. Any ideas for some cheap diy privacy blocking view ideas?
>>2872826find someone tearing down an old fence and giving it away on cl/zuckbergplace. ive gotten assembled full 8ft panels multiple times by chance that were completely usable. worst are usually only rotten and punky the first foot up so you could just cut them off
>>2872826If it doesn't have to be pretty just collect pallets, you can usually get them for free from local stores/craigslist. Put posts in the ground and attach them to the posts so they are stable. If you want them to look nicer you can attach a more appealing facade to them for relatively cheap. Or plant ivy around them and train it to cover them, even tho ivy grows insanely fast it will still take a while for full coverage but it looks nice in the end.
>>2872826Find someone with an old dilapidated barn that wants it torn down and use the wood and tin to make a fence. Depending on where you're at in the country you should be able to find something around you to salvage for cheap materials. For example, I'm in a heavy agriculture area and a lot of hay is grown here. Years back people used to put up loafed hay which are huge "bales" or stacks of hay. There was a lot of loss to the weather, and wind as these stacks of hay were not tied at all, just pressed together, but it was a cheap as hell way to put up a lot of hay fast. Fast forward to today, and nobody uses loafers anymore. So they are all over the place and you can buy them for dirt cheap if you find the right person looking to get rid of one... I bought one exactly like pic rel for $360. There's 5 big ol hydraulic cylinders, some gears and gearboxes, a nice frame, lots of good steel, a huge axle, and a ton of corrugated sheet metal on one of these things... For less than the cost of what one of those cylinders would be. Plus the entire thing has an arched roof that a guy could easily convert into a little shed or livestock shelter. Look for some kind of deal like that around where you live. Surplus inventory, cheap building materials, etc. Hell if you don't mind doing some hard labor you could even get old tires and cut the treads off and then weave them together into a mat or even string them together between posts for a eco-friendly recycled fence.
>>2872870Dammit I forgot the pic!
>>2872867I didn't even think about this. This is a good idea.
