barbed wire

[squirreltail 15]

New kids on the block decide to fence off couple of acres, just to the left of us.

Grafting hard few days, done a good job,I watched the posts go in then the sheep fencing, leaving the top foot to hold single strands of wire

Then it arrived, BARBED WIRE.

I asked why that wire and was told thats how you do it.

Pointed out smooth wire does the job, but no it had to be the threatening kind.Why does anyone have to use the stuff? I fenced off the same round our land and used smooth wire on top..BAN IT BAN IT . The damage it can cause is horrific .

What they going to keep in the field? a horse. If someone wants to get in the field they can hop over the wooden gate.Is the BARBED WIRE peculiar to Britain and Ireland and if so WHY.

[Guest JohnGalway]

Don't know why they'd need it for a horse really. I'm a sheep farmer, not those soft lazy lowland types but the mountain-jumping-in-one-leap kind. We use it and need to use it. It also puts off the bobble hat brigade. So before you call on a ban on something, please realise other people use it for valid reasons.

[bill88 6]

New kids on the block decide to fence off couple of acres, just to the left of us.

Grafting hard few days, done a good job,I watched the posts go in then the sheep fencing, leaving the top foot to hold single strands of wire

Then it arrived, BARBED WIRE.

I asked why that wire and was told thats how you do it.

Pointed out smooth wire does the job, but no it had to be the threatening kind.Why does anyone have to use the stuff? I fenced off the same round our land and used smooth wire on top..BAN IT BAN IT . The damage it can cause is horrific .

What they going to keep in the field? a horse. If someone wants to get in the field they can hop over the wooden gate.Is the BARBED WIRE peculiar to Britain and Ireland and if so WHY.

Spot on mate,i seen a friends dog cut to piece's after chasing a rabbit into cover.The barbed wire was in three strands,starting a about 8 inche's off the floor,all of it hidden by grass.What was in the field ? f*****g rapeseed.

[ferret15 0]

i keep horses myself and have seen what this stuff will do to a horses legs i wouldn't put my horses in a field with anything other than post and rail or electric tape one of my greyhounds caught her nose right between the eyes she pulled back a pealed all the flesh from her nose she had seventeen staples to put her back together !!

[Groverdog 0]

Ive got barbed wire round the horses field thankfully theyve never had any bother with it. When i was a nipper i was once told (no idea if its true or not) that barbed wire was better than plain because horses & cows more likely to see it and there fore less likely to run through it??? Bugger of stuff to get over on shoot days tho being a short arse!

[bullet 132]

a know its bad shit but if a horse or cow rubs it arse/back on it will stop then from damage'ing the wire that holds them in, and yes ive had injured dogs through barbed wire, seconldy its the owners fields to do what the hell they like

[squirreltail 15]

a know its bad shit but if a horse or cow rubs it arse/back on it will stop then from damage'ing the wire that holds them in, and yes ive had injured dogs through barbed wire, seconldy its the owners fields to do what the hell they like

 

 

SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE ENGLISHMAN

[Hob&Jill 258]

What would a 'true Englishman' say?

 

I hate the stuff, But you can hardly blames farmers for wanting the best protection for there stock, its there living after all.

[Guest MOLLY]

The worst ive seen is a field on my old permission, they have the normal barbed sheep wire, then just 3ft behind it another one....supposedly to stop the bull from jumping the 1st one? A lurcher would land directly on top of the 2nd one

MOLL.

[montague 0]

This is what it did to my bitch a couple of months back. Feckin' horrible stuff

[Guest MOLLY]

Jesus christ where did the skin go

MOLL.

[montague 0]

Jesus christ where did the skin go

MOLL.

It was hanging by a thread. She healed in about a month.

Good old staple guns She has the smallest scar now.

[gaz 284]

The work of satin if you ask me,feckin hate the stuff,ive seen some bad tears,rips and punctures ect over the years with the stuff but what really gets on my tits is the old rusty stuff left discarded when a fence is renewed usually in long grass and the like.......fecking deadly ,especially if the dog goes into shock after a nasty injury with it but what can you do ? its the landowners right to use what he wants on his fences im afraid,it part and parcel of the game............allways better to know your ground and you will have less chance of any drama

[bullet 132]

The work of satin if you ask me,feckin hate the stuff,ive seen some bad tears,rips and punctures ect over the years with the stuff but what really gets on my tits is the old rusty stuff left discarded when a fence is renewed usually in long grass and the like.......fecking deadly ,especially if the dog goes into shock after a nasty injury with it but what can you do ? its the landowners right to use what he wants on his fences im afraid,it part and parcel of the game............allways better to know your ground and you will have less chance of any drama

well said :clapping: