Hi Kat and Ride campers; I hate barb wire, having vivid memories of my dad's favorite riding horse, a big red quarter horse, got his leg caught in some old wire on the trail and shredded his leg. He was a roping horse, and felt the tension, kept trying to back up. What a bloody mess that was, and I was four years old, I still remember. Kat made me worry, because like her, I have an old place, built in 1923, and we found lots of old wire buried in the dirt. It did break, but we found long sections of it, and had to use a metal detector to find some of it. What a job. I still have a couple of rolls laying around to be disposed of soon. (We are refencing the pasture) I would just say, watch out for old stuff that old ranchers may have just thrown aside when they were fixing fences long time ago. It may be even partially buried, and makes a real boobie-trap. Beth G.