BARBED WIRE FROM BATTLEFIELDS.
. A British, company is engaged in the salvaging of the barbed wire from the battlefields." A special apparatus has been invented for the purpose, and the company referred to has forty of these at work in different- parts of the country. One truck and trailer carries the whole of the plant,, which can work on the most uneven ground. 'A. stout* wire rope with a number of hooks is worked" by a winch. As the barbed wire is drawn up it passes "through two sets of rollers, and the .salved metal appears in "blocks of onl? ::foot to eighteen inches square, and -weighing from seventy to eighty pounds. 'For smelting it sells for about 25 dollars a ton. There are 100,000 tonVflrat' can be removed.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3637, 25 November 1920, Page 6
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129BARBED WIRE FROM BATTLEFIELDS. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3637, 25 November 1920, Page 6
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