Tell me how old this is...

notjustair · Mar 14, 2016

I walked the fence on the 80 at uncle Raymond's today. The cows will be moved up there in a couple of weeks. About half of it you can't even get the four wheeler in so you have to walk it. Spending the day walking that fence with a chain saw, a fencing bucket, and some extra T posts makes for a long one. It just isn't worth it for the few acres of good pasture, but you do it cause it's family.

Anyway, I took some pictures (this is with my iPhone so they might be flipped for you) so you could see Kansas isn't all tall grass prairie.

Better yet - someone tell me how old the barbed wire in the last picture is. I've never removed any wire, just added more. I've never seen barbs like that, though.

Dachshund · Mar 14, 2016

Contact the Barbed Wire Museum in Lacrosse, Kansas - they will tell you more info than you ever wanted.....
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Dave H (MI) · Mar 14, 2016

Does this link look like it?
Barb wire

casecollectorsc · Mar 14, 2016

Hope you come up with a year for the wire. Got some like it up here in E SD.

4play · Mar 14, 2016

Look into Scutt arrow plate barb wire patented June 18, 1878 by Hiram B. Scutt of Joliet, Illinois.

another close one but same era, might be Frentress split diamond, Patented December 14, 1875

JayinNY · Mar 14, 2016

Don't know, but you hand looks like mine! Lol.

Greg1959 · Mar 14, 2016

JayinNY- Naw, your head, heart and life lines are not even close. Your life line tells a story though.

JayinNY · Mar 14, 2016

Gee, I don't believe that stuff, but don't know what mine tells.

Alan K · Mar 14, 2016

I was wondering how you got trees to grow on a side hill like that lol.

JerryS · Mar 15, 2016

There is also a 'Devil's Rope' bob wahr museum located in McLean, Texas. Never thought I could spend two hours touring a barb wire museum.

Kansas4010 · Mar 15, 2016

I found some just like that walking trough my timber area. Like you I've wondered how old it was as well.

dzc3 · Mar 15, 2016

I have wire like that on my farm was told it was dated back to just after WW1

T in NE · Mar 15, 2016

Probably the original wire. No matter how much you stretch it, you can never get it tight. So brittle, you can hardly bend it, it just snaps.

jeffcat · Mar 15, 2016

Flippy. Boy that is old wire. A little treasure.

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