Re: RC: Barbed wire fencing

[RunRoskoRun@aol.com]

In a message dated 04/10/2001 4:23:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bgloverhrsewmn@hotmail.com writes:

<< 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- >>
In regards to this last part.....

My property used to house an old cow barn.  When I moved in I found bits of 
wire, metal, even nails, throughout the pastures.  It was exhausting looking 
for debris.  One day last spring I found my oldest gelding with a 4" nail 
driven 2" into his hoof and swollen to the knee.  The hunt for debris began 
again.  A friend then told me that lumber yards often have big magnets that 
they drag around to pick up all the nails and staples dropped in error.  I 
went and asked, and they let me borrow theirs.  Picked up all kinds of metal 
crap that I had missed with my bare eyes.  Granted, it doesn't really pick up 
the buried stuff, but if its on top or just below the surface it worked 
really well.
FWIW
Abigail Madden
Tiger & Rosko