Fig. 94.
Fig. 95.
BUILDING WIRE FENCES ON UNEVEN GROUND.
Fig. 96.—Fence On Uneven Ground.
One of the great perplexities about building wire fences on rolling ground, is how to make the posts in the hollows remain firm, for the pull of the wire in wet weather, or when the frost is coming out, lifts them and causes the wire to sag, and they cease to be an effective barrier. Posts should not be used in the lowest depressions, but in their place at the lowest spots a heavy stone should be partially sunk into the ground, about which a smooth fence wire has been wrapped, as seen in [figure 96]. When the fence is built, the fence wires are brought down to their place and the wire about the stone is twisted first about the lower wire, then the next, and so on to the top. This prevents the wire from raising, and does away with all trouble of the posts being pulled out by the wires. In fencing across small streams the same plan is successful.
CHAPTER VI.
FENCES OF BARB WIRE AND BOARDS.
COMBINED WIRE AND BOARD FENCE.
