[Homestead] [Homestead=trees/fencing
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 21 07:59:21 EST 2009
>My backyard fence is concrete block and seven foot tall (5.5 on the sides
>and 6 on the front). I guess stone fences in new england would be the
>rural equivalent. Way too expensive for size.
>
New England drystone fences are free. The stones are picked from the fields
as they are plowed...there's where having lots of kids comes in handy. In
some places, stone is a better crop than anything the farmer plants. The
wall can take years to build. I'd love to have one, but I don't plow up
large areas, so I only have the stones from my garden area (I could still
build a nice little wall, though, just from them).
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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