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2. Split-rail fence - Wikipedia

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   Simple split-rail fence Log fence with double posts (photo taken in 1938). A split-rail fence, log fence, or buck-and-rail fence (also historically known as a Virginia, zigzag, worm, snake or snake-rail fence due to its meandering layout) is a type of fence constructed in the United States and Canada, and is made out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails and typically used for ...

3. Wood splitting - Wikipedia

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   In woodworking carpenters use a wooden siding which gets its name, clapboard, [2] from originally being split from logs—the sound of the plank against the log being a clap. This is used in clapboard architecture and for wainscoting. Coopers use oak clapboards to make barrel staves. [1] Split-rail fences are made with split wood.

4. Agricultural fencing - Wikipedia

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   Log fences or split-rail fences were simple fences constructed in newly cleared areas by stacking log rails. Earth could also be used as a fence; an example was what is now called the sunken fence, or "ha-ha," a type of wall built by digging a ditch with one steep side (which animals cannot scale) and one sloped side (where the animals roam).

5. Home Depot's stock-split history - AOL

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6. Fence - Wikipedia

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   Typical agricultural barbed wire fencing Sioux Mems Pro2 Split-rail fencing common in timber-rich areas A chain-link wire fence surrounding a field Portable metal fences around a construction site A snow-covered vaccary fence near Ramsbottom in Greater Manchester, UK Between fence and hedge: Acanthocereus tetragonus, laid out as a "living fence", rural area, Cuba

7. Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial - Wikipedia

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   It was here that Abraham split rails for his father's 10-acre (4.0 ha) field, and also "hired out" to split rails for neighboring pioneer farmers, inspiring his later political nickname, the Rail Splitter. Split-rail fences were used by pioneer farmers to confine their stock, or to prevent free-range livestock from getting into and damaging a ...