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 ...

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 decried by open-range proponents, rustlers, fence ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Paul Ehrlich considers his 60 acres along the Big Thompson a gift, but he does not cherish the rafters and tubers who, he says, frequently trespass on his ...

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 ...

Visitors to Fort McCoy are used to the sight of barbed wire. It sits atop the fences surrounding the cantonment area and other areas around the installation. It is used during training exercises today ...

Breathes there a native Texan who has never snagged a pair of jeans on a strand of barbed wire? Today barbed wire seems a natural part of the Texas landscape, but to our great-great-grandparents it ...