Fences

We have been keeping an eye out lately on fences, since we are making a couple of new ones. So It was interesting to see, while I was away, how they were collected or reproduced. Especially those made in a similar fashion, of wire and pickets.

The Sheep's Back Museum at Narracoorte has obviously collected an example, which it has in storage:

The Millewa at Merringur has also collected an example, in split pine logs, and erected it:

Old Tailem Town has erected what seems to be a reproduction fence, which is quite interesting, as the sticks are grouped within loops of wire:

None were sighted at Swan Hill, but they had erected a solid but sympathetic fence using Murray Pine logs. It serves very well as a divider between a public and a work area.

Sometimes we need to think outside the almost universal belief that the only form of old fence is post and rail.