Dado Time
The fancy cattle panel fence that we want for our backyard is ready to move from design to the implementation phase. That means dados, and a lot of them. What is a dado and where does it go in this design? A dado is a groove cut into the face of a board. In this design, each of the 2x4s on the outside of each panel has a dado cut into the middle of one of the faces. The dados provide a slot for the metal cattle panel to sit in after assembly. It is essentially like making a giant picture frame. In this case, however, the picture is replaced with cattle panel fencing. I used cedar 2x4s for each of the separate panels in the fence. In the end, I had 5 different panels, one of which was smaller than the rest for a fence gate. The fence gate…