Take a drive on rural roads hereabouts, and sooner or later the view will include an old rail fence. They run through woods and fields in a variety of patterns – reflecting a time when necessity ...

Arail fence is one of the easiest to construct because its components - posts with holes for horizontal rails - fit together like pins in a slot. While its original use was to keep livestock from ...

There are more than several styles of rail fences, too, some more time-consuming to construct than others, but none really insurmountable.

In earlier times, fences of all kinds were more often built to keep things out. A newly built rail fence wasn’t as effective for protection from wild animals or marauders until it was allowed to ...