Built a half mile (N-S) of new 5 strand barbed wire fence last week. Using a Gator, Skid Steer loader, hydraulic post driver, cable fence stretcher. It will probably last 50 years if no cattle run thru it or wires get cut.
Then I compare that to the 1880-1900 builders of the rock wall that runs for a half mile (E-W) over worse terrain than I dealt with I don't feel like my efforts are all that impressive. They had dynamite, hand tools, and probably a horse drawn wagon. Most of that wall still very functional today.
Tom
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