Sorry gang for being a bit off topic here... I went to an old farmstead
today to salvage some woodwork before the house was to be dozed in. I'm
needing it for a kitchen and bathroom remodeling in my house. I was in the
pantry off the kitchen getting some nice old pine shelving and up from the
top shelf fell this piece of wire about 40" long. There are four fastenings
as you see here, spaced about every foot. This is the only one that
confirmed this was a barbed wire configuration. I've seen wire collections
before but this seems quite complex.
There is the horseshoe "U" with a #9 wire running through the slot, plus the
#12 wire with barbed twist running thru at 90 degrees, and then the wedge
resembling a square nail is driven in to cinch it all tight. By chance any
rednecks in the groop know anything about this? I know some of these wires
go back into the 1850's.
Bucky, in Nebraska
