How to Install a Picket Fence

Supplies You Will Need

Tools You Will Need

• Level
• Gibbs posthole digger,
  for digging 10-inch-wide holes 32 inches deep
• Mason's line
• 7-foot tamping bar (or a 6-foot 2x4
• Shovel
• 7-foot digging bar,
  use flat end to cut roots; pointed end to pry out rocks
• Drill/driver,
  for screwing through posts into rails
• Circular saw,
  for trimming posts and panels, if necessary
• Tarp,
  to hold soil dug from postholes
• Tape measure