TIDY FENCES AT WINCHMORE
Electric fences that look like real fences in miniature are being used for the break feeding oi both crops and pastures at the Department of Agriculture’s irrigation research station, Winchmore.
Designed by Mr W. T. Steer, farm manager, they consist of three and four-strand sections of a seven-strand cyclone netting which has been cut into two. Two circular plastic insulators fitted to the miniature wooden posts used on the fence are so placed that they hold the wire taut The posts with spiked points have a small horizontal metal bar at a low level so that they can be readily pushed into the ground with the pressure of a boot. To erect the fence the battens are spaced about half a chain apart and the netting is rolled out and strained and then clipped to the insulators. To tai down a fence 7 to 8 chains long and reerect it for a fresh break takes one man about 30 minutes.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28660, 9 August 1958, Page 9
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