Barbed wire is the type of fencing commonly used on farms to confine livestock, keeping valuable animals safe from predators, motor vehicles, deep water, and other hazards. Good quality barb wire ...

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 ...

In 1876, Gates bet a group in San Antonio, Texas, that he could build a wire pen on the grounds of the Alamo that could contain a group of longhorn cattle. Fencing materials were scarce in Texas and ...

__1867: __Lucien B. Smith patents barbed wire, an artificial "thorn hedge." It's an idea whose time clearly has come, but not quite in this form. Smith's design called for spools of four short, sharp ...

Justin Macy never charges extra for solving the “who dunnit” question in hit-and-run car accidents that trash the barbed wire fences he fixes. “I can’t tell you how many license plates I have pulled ...

Manufacturers of barbed wire and other fencing products are seeking to have import duty on raw materials — galvanised wire — dropped from 25 percent to 10 percent to avert a shutdown of production.