A BRACKETED FENCE.
fence with 2 boards, 3 barbed wires, 2 plain wiresFig. 100.—One Panel Of Improved Wire Fence.
Fig. 100.—One Panel Of Improved Wire Fence.
Fig. 100.—One Panel Of Improved Wire Fence.
iron bracketFig. 101.—Iron Bracket.
Fig. 101.—Iron Bracket.
Fig. 101.—Iron Bracket.
The features shown infigure 100are: first, in having two six-inch boards at the bottom. Second, in placing the wires very close together. It being necessary to have barbs only on one side of each space between the wires, plain galvanised wire may be used for every alternate strand, thus greatly lessening the expense. Third, by the use of strips and short stakes, the posts may be placed sixteen feet apart, and the fence remain as perfect as if there were posts every eight feet. Fourth, to make thefence man-proof, make use of a bracket of three-eighth-inch iron, or of one by two-inch wooden strips.
post with iron bracketFig. 102.—Attached Bracket.
Fig. 102.—Attached Bracket.
Fig. 102.—Attached Bracket.
post with wooden bracketFig. 103.—Wooden Bracket.
Fig. 103.—Wooden Bracket.
Fig. 103.—Wooden Bracket.
The form of the brackets is shown infigures 101,102and103. A barb-wire is attached to the short arm of the brackets, which are fastened to the posts in such a manner as to stretch two wires on the same horizontal plane, and fifteen inches apart. The material required for each panel of the fence shown infigure 100, are: Two posts, three barb-wires, two plain wires of No. 12 galvanized iron, two six-inch boards, sixteen feet long, three stakes about three feet long, and sharpened at one end, four strips, four feet long and one and one-half inch square. To build the fence: Lay off the ground by setting small pegs eight feet apart, then dig the holes, and set the posts at every fourth peg. Drive the sharpened stakes into the ground at the three pegs between the posts, so that the top of the stakes will be nineteen inches above the ground. Nail the boards on the first stake near theground, and the second one three inches above the first. Then mark off the place for each wire on the first post, fasten the bottom wire, and put up as far as the first stretching post; then add the other wires, using first a barb-wire, and then a smooth one. The wires should be fastened to the posts with long staples. The strips are to go in the middle of the eight foot spaces; they should not quite touch the ground; fasten them to the boards with nails and to the wire with short staples. These strips can be made of poles or saplings, and the stakes of short or crooked pieces from the posts. To attach the man-proof part: If the brackets are of wood, nail them to the posts, sawing off the horizontal arm to fifteen inches from the top wire, as infigure 103; stretch the wire and fasten to the end. If the brackets are of iron,figure 102, spike the horizontal arm to the top of the post, then put up the barb-wire loose under the oblique arm, and stretch it. Then spike the foot of the obliquearm to the post, and slip the wire into the angle, and close the bracket by closing the arms on the wire.Figure 102shows the method of attaching the iron bracket to the post.