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Simple split-rail fence Log fence with double posts (photo taken in 1938). A split-rail fence, log fence, or buck-and-rail fence (also historically known as a Virginia, zigzag, worm, snake or snake-rail fence due to its meandering layout) is a type of fence constructed in the United States and Canada, and is made out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails and typically used for ...
Log fences or split-rail fences were simple fences constructed in newly cleared areas by stacking log rails. Earth could also be used as a fence; an example was what is now called the sunken fence, or "ha-ha," a type of wall built by digging a ditch with one steep side (which animals cannot scale) and one sloped side (where the animals roam).
Typical agricultural barbed wire fencing Sioux Mems Pro2 Split-rail fencing common in timber-rich areas A chain-link wire fence surrounding a field Portable metal fences around a construction site A snow-covered vaccary fence near Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester, UK Between fence and hedge: Acanthocereus tetragonus, laid out as a "living fence", rural area, Cuba
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The term ″roundpole fence" is somewhat misleading, as the rails between the pairs of uprights are usually split spruce logs. However, the upright poles are always round, young spruce trees with a diameter of 5 to 7 cm. For the diagonals, larger trees with a diameter up to 20 cm were split into four or eight rails of suitable dimensions.
A majority of California voters agree, viewing the high-speed rail favorably, according to a 2022 poll by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and The Times. The poll found that 56% of ...
Reporting on the "Fence-Post Horizon" in 1897, W. N. Logan noted fifty thousand stone posts in Mitchell and Lincoln counties alone. [4] Since then, the informal name "Fencepost limestone bed" has come to have a stature equal that of the adjacent members. [10] The greatest use of the Fencepost limestone, for fencing and building, was from 1884 ...
Florida State University wants out of what it sees as a raw deal with the Atlantic Coast Conference – and it is not going to go quietly and doesn't want pay more than a half-billion dollars to ...