Homemade Junk Fences

Junk tires are a plentiful fence-building material.

Building a fence out of junk requires creativity. The fence might not look pretty when it is complete, but as long as it fulfills the job of being a fence, then looks don't matter. Materials for building the fence can be found along roadsides, or in garbage dumps and dumpsters. Permission to sort through the junk should be received beforehand if you don't own it. Once the fence is built, you can keep adding to its junky decor with more junk.

Things You'll Need

• Refrigerators
• Pallets
• Tires

Instructions

1. Clear the area where you want to build the junk fence. Cut away all brush, shrubs and trees down to ground level along the fence line with a chainsaw.

2. Scalp the high spots with a shovel blade by holding the blade at a slight downward angle and digging away any hills and mounds in the soil. Pull and push a rake back and forth to fill in low spots with dirt. Level the ground as best you can.

3. Set junk refrigerators at all of the corners of the fence line. These will be used as the corner posts of the junk fence. They are big enough to lean other items against without fear of toppling.

4. Draw a line with the shovel blade between each of the fridges to create the fence outline.

5. Lay a row of wood pallets down along the lines between the fridges. Butt them together end to end until the first level of the fence is complete.

6. Lay a tire flat on every other pallet in the fence line. This means that one pallet will be empty and the next will have a tire on it.

7. Stack an empty pallet on top of each tire in the fence. Repeat the stacking of tires on pallets and vice versa on every other pallet until the desired height of the fence is reached.

8. Place a junk stove top oven, dishwasher, clothes dryer or washing machine on top of every empty pallet in between the pallet tire pallets.

9. Place junk microwaves on top of the ovens, dishwashers, clothes dryers and washing machines.

10. Place broken toasters, radios, computer monitors and any other junk items you have at your disposal on top of the microwaves until the junk forms an evenly distributed fence height.

11. Nail pie pans, broken face clocks, old license plates, old hub caps and plastic bottles to the wood pallets with a hammer as decoration.

Tips & Warnings

• Check your city's fence codes before building the fence, because some cities and neighborhoods have strict rules regarding what a fence can be made out of.