Too cocksure for my own good.
Have launched back into the fence job I started just before chicken pox ironed me out (into the fourth week now and still vague/fevered, just no longer spotty) and in the enforced downtime my palings started to do their own thing. It means when you nail them up, you often need to put a clamp on them and tap with a scrap of wood and the hammer to take out sideways bowing.
Anyway, I’ve pinned the top of a paling with about a 20mm sideways wonk in it, clamped the middle to the rail and started bullying it straight. Coming along nicely, got my vertical gap from 20mm down to about 7mm in the centre. Told myself “one more hit and I’ll live with the result”.
A good sharp blow and CRACK! The mongrel split heavily on a knot, ruining the paling.
