PORTABLE TIDE FENCE.
floating fence sectionFig. 144.—Section Of A Tide Fence.
Fig. 144.—Section Of A Tide Fence.
Fig. 144.—Section Of A Tide Fence.
Figure 144represents a fence for tide-creeks. It is made usually of pine, the larger pieces, those which lieon the ground and parallel with the run of the fence, are three by four-inch pieces, hemlock or pine, and connected by three cross-bars, of three by four-inch pieces, mortised in three feet apart. Into the middle of these three cross-pieces, the upright or posts are securely mortised, while two common boards are nailed underneath the long pieces, to afford a better rest for the structure, when floating on the water or resting on the ground. Barbed or plain wires are stretched along the posts, which are four feet high.