{"id":39478,"date":"2020-06-03T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39478"},"modified":"2020-06-03T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:44:14","slug":"yard-work-fence-and-gate-repair-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-fence-and-gate-repair-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work: fence and gate repair, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about fixing the gate and fence: the tutor continues&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>Following from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-fence-and-gate-repair-part-0\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>: In the warmth of June, I finally decided to reinstall the gate. One of its hinges was ready to re-affix, while its other was still stuck on part of the old post. One of its screws was seized, the square indent rounded: I had to remove it some different way.\n<\/p><p>\nI braced the piece of post bearing the hinge between two heavy bricks on the ground. Next I got the reciprocating saw, fastened a demolition blade and started on the post. It hit the place the screw must have been, but wouldn&#8217;t proceed further, so I quit the saw.<\/p>\n<p>I got a wedge and drove it into the cut, separating it further. Soon the side with the hinge broke off from the main post. Next, I got a hacksaw and cut the screw: the hinge was free. All told, it probably took about 20 minutes, unfastening that hinge from the post.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue:)<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about fixing the gate and fence: the tutor continues&#8230;. Following from yesterday&#8217;s post: In the warmth of June, I finally decided to reinstall the gate. One of its hinges was ready to re-affix, while its other was still stuck &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-fence-and-gate-repair-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work: fence and gate repair, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yard-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39481,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39478\/revisions\/39481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}