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2. Barbed wire - Wikipedia

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   Barbed wire. Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. Its primary use is the construction of inexpensive fences, and it is also used as a security measure atop walls surrounding property. As a wire obstacle, it is a major feature of the ...

3. Agricultural fencing - Wikipedia

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   Most agricultural fencing averages about 4 feet (1.2 m) high, and in some places, the height and construction of fences designed to hold livestock is mandated by law. A fencerow is the strip of land by a fence that is left uncultivated. It may be a hedgerow or a shelterbelt (windbreak) or a refugee for native plants.

4. Wire obstacle - Wikipedia

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   Wire obstacle. In the military science of fortification, wire obstacles are defensive obstacles made from barbed wire, barbed tape or concertina wire. They are designed to disrupt, delay and generally slow down an attacking enemy. During the time that the attackers are slowed by the wire obstacle (or possibly deliberately channelled into ...

5. Joseph Glidden - Wikipedia

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   Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire. Glidden began work on ways to make a useful barbed wire to fence cattle in 1873. He made his best design of barbed wire by using a coffee mill to create the barbs. Glidden placed the barbs along a wire and then twisted another wire around it to keep the barbs in place, in a ...

6. Elk calf caught on barbed-wire fence in Colorado. See its ...

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   The video shows Officer Travis Sauder carefully climbing over a fence to reach the calf near Colorado Springs. The calf seems to nervously stir at the potential threat as he approaches, and video ...

7. Fence Cutting Wars - Wikipedia

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   The Fence Cutting Wars occurred near the end of the 19th century in the American Old West, and were a series of disputes between farmers and cattlemen with larger land holdings. As newcomers came to the American West to farm, established cattlemen began to fence off their larger tracts of land with barbed wire in order to protect them from the ...