Novel Wire-Fencing.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 5

Novel Wire-Fencing.

It would often bo found convenient to be able to take down ft wive fence and put it up again when required, expeditiously and without loosening tho posts*, or injming them by the forcible drawing of the staples. Through the kindness of a subscriber wo are enabled to illustrate a mothod of achieving: this object, at once simple and efficacious. A correspondent of the Field suggests that this, plan of erecting wirefences would be very deniable in a hunting country, where both hoives and liders aie often seriously injured iii tivingto get o\er such fences.

But, .-qxut iroin hunting interests, all •w. ll admit the great convenience, for certain pirposes, ot easily iemo\ cable wire fences. Jfor instance, a farmer may wish to crop a portion of a large gia«*> paddock tor one season without having to keep live-stock oil" the rest ot the field that remains in grass, or permanently reducing 1 the area ot the field as a pasture ; or he may wish to utilise a largd iield of turnips by feeding off one portion uith sheep, and another with cattle, -without cuttiug up the land with a permanent fence, entailing extia. timo and labour in after-ploughing. In euch cases the plan here illustrated would meet the requirement? of the occasion. It consists simply in u«ing two staples for each wire on eacli post, placed close together, one above the other ; the wire is then stretched between the staples as shown, and kept ia its position by a piece of hooked wire run through both staples. With this hooked wire, the fence wiie can, if desired, be pinned to the ground, which, it is pointed out, " prevents it from coiling up in the dangerous way it will do wnen off the posts." Besides the ease of taking down and replacing the wires thus secured, it Feems to us th'it the plan has the further advantage of allowing a slack wire to be strained tignt without making it necessary to looson the staples, and especially would this be found useful where it was necessary to restrain barbed wire.