onefarmer
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ShadetreeRet
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Yep, lol. That ain't all it will tear up either! When I was about 10 or 11, Dad had a single strand of barbed wire that he would pull up and hook occasionally to keep the livestock out of a certain area. One day I went around the corner of the barn in a dead run and that darned fence was up! I tried to duck under it but didn't quite make it, It cut my lip almost all the way through. Over sixty years later, I still have scars on my upper lip and the end of my nose.
The stuff can be dangerous. A fellow I went to school with was helping his Dad build fence. His Dad sent him back to the house for something. He was riding a trail bike. He came flying back to where they had been working. He did not know his Dad had stretched the first strand of barbed wire. The boy hit it with his chest and it broke the ends loose. It sprung back and wrapped him up in barbed wire. To make it even worse he did not have a shirt on. He was not seriously hurt but had about one hundred stitches all over his upper body. He was not pretty without his shirt on after that.
Ultradog MN
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It looks like it's flipping you the bird.
Now ya"ll have went and done it! Now that you have alerted OSHA to the unacceptable level of danger presented by naked barbed-wire, the next executive order coming down will be that every strand MUST be painted with florescent yellow paint - make that powder-coated, on account of it will last longer and cost more!
I keep digging up old pieces of it on our property. It was farm land probably 60-80 years ago that has all grown up. Nasty stuff. I don't think I have ever handled it and not had at least one cut or scrape to show for it. I guess it has it's purpose but I'm sure it's damaged lots of livestock over the years too.
A snowmoblier was decapitated a number of years back by some.
A snowmoblier was decapitated a number of years back by some.
ShadetreeRet
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And, another thing, around here (mostly small farms) a lot of folks were too lazy to dig post holes, so they just nailed the barbed wire to a convenient tree. Years later the tree had grown around it and there was little or no evidence of the wire being there---until you hit it with a chain saw!
Nancy Howell
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I hate the stuff. Its gotten a couple of pairs of my jeans, too.
Doesn"t seem to deter livestock much. I"ve watched cattle push fences, stick their neck through and watched our neighbor"s bull raise his head over the fence, then lower it. Staples popped all down the fence.
Seems all its good for is cutting, gouging and sticking the person stringing it.
I"ve become a big fan of electric. Easier and cheaper to put up and maintain. Livestock leave it alone. No fence posts leaning over, etc.
Doesn"t seem to deter livestock much. I"ve watched cattle push fences, stick their neck through and watched our neighbor"s bull raise his head over the fence, then lower it. Staples popped all down the fence.
Seems all its good for is cutting, gouging and sticking the person stringing it.
I"ve become a big fan of electric. Easier and cheaper to put up and maintain. Livestock leave it alone. No fence posts leaning over, etc.
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onefarmer
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I do use barbed wire but it is electric. So the best of both. Cows leave it alone.
still the best day in and day out when you start running for miles, instead of acres. theres no wire fence that will hold a cow or bull if they decide to go through it,unless it has enough voltage to kill one dead instantly. youll see a lot of electric fence here,nearly all of its temporary.
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