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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 ...
In woodworking carpenters use a wooden siding which gets its name, clapboard, [2] from originally being split from logs—the sound of the plank against the log being a clap. This is used in clapboard architecture and for wainscoting. Coopers use oak clapboards to make barrel staves. [1] Split-rail fences are made with split wood.
On all but the Ute Place side the cemetery's boundaries are marked by a wooden split-rail fence, with openings for some of the trails. At the main entrance, midway along the south bound, is a sandstone tablet with the names of the Civil War veterans buried within. Curving narrow paths, most of them having evolved through use rather than any ...
Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to ...
The property also includes a carriage house, a hog pen, a smoke house, a corn crib, a 270-foot-long (82 m) stone wall, a cedar split-rail fence, and the remaining 141 acres (57 ha) of the original 145-acre (59 ha) farm. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]
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Split-rail fence, made of timber, often laid in a zig-zag pattern, particularly in newly settled parts of the United States and Canada; Vaccary fence (named from Latin vaca - cow), for restraining cattle, made of thin slabs of stone placed upright, found in various places in the north of the UK where suitable stone is had. [5] Vinyl fencing
The split rail fence at the near end of the barracks denotes the foundation outline of another barracks yet to be reconstructed. The quartermaster building. The interior of the quartermaster building showing materials used during Dragoon and Civil War reenactments staged at Fort Tejon.