When building a barbed-wire fence, a person needs an easy way to unroll the spools of wire. Many methods have been used, such as putting the wire spool on a stationary bar and then pulling the wire ...

Our property neighbors 2 parking lots and at one time there was a nice strand of barbed wire that bordered our fence. At some unknown point, one of the supports rusted away and now its curled up in ...

One day as I was driving from my home near Kraemer Lake, I noticed a small herd of cattle in a pasture fenced with barbed wire. It brought back memories. Wire had been a much-used commodity on our ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Minturn – Ever since Joseph Glidden patented barbed wire in 1874, the “devil’s rope” has been the object of contention: beloved by cattle ranchers but ...

When the shiny new six-strand barbed wire fence – paid for by the Nature Conservancy – went up around 3-1/2 miles of the Covell Ranch on the northeast side of Cambria in November, along with the ...

Behold the humble barbed-wire fence, the five-strand sentinel of Texas woods and plains. Untold thousands of miles of barbed-wire fence divide the state, so ubiquitous outside the city centers that ...

AMARILLO – Don’t assume that a grass fire has damaged the barbed wire on a fence. That’s the message of one Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist in Amarillo to ranchers who saw wildfire rip ...