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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> 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