A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc.
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Interviewer: And sometimes they named them after the- the man who- Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: Whose special kind of fence that was. Speaker: Oh, they were- they were rails and pickets. They used some f-- wire with them. Interviewer: To keep them in place? Speaker: But they- when they, ah- when they used a, ah- nothing but a- the old zig-zag fence, well they just, ah- it was just rails and it took a- an awful lot of rails ... |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
Speaker: Oh, some- some parts that's about all they'll have, is- barbed wire. Interviewer: Mm-hm. A lot easier to put that up. Speaker: Oh my, yes. You can string around the- the- drive in pickets and string it around quick. Interviewer: Not nearly as much hard work as the- (laughs) Speaker: No. Interviewer: As the log. Speaker: Uh-huh. Interviewer: The rail fences. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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A straight log fence, if there were anything you'd have to have put pickets in. Or the logs would blow off. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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And ah, if it's not fun it's like, ah- when we went past Northern-College today they were all out there with the picket signs. And I said to a friend of mine, I said "You-know-what? In my life, if my boss didn't pay me what I wanted, I just went in and shook his hand and- and thanked him for the job and I moved on." |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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Interviewer: Is there a particular way of doing the ploughing? Do you go back and forth? Or do you go- Speaker: Y-- when you're- yes if you were doing that but at a ploughing match, there is a plot laid out for you with a picket on each end and then you've got to plough a certain width and you (sneezes) got to plough up against your neighbour and leave a respectable furrow. So there's a knack to it. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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Speaker: And he was quite a guy. He used to make a lot of wine. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker 2: Dandelion wine. Speaker: He could make wine out of most anything, I c-- think he- (laughing) he could have made it out of a- a picket (laughs) if he'd (inc) Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: But he- he'd a dill-- or, back kitchen about the size of this thing here and he'd- lined with crocks. And he- dandelion wine and rhubarb wine and beet wine. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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Speaker: And ah we had an auger there for drilling- well, they used to build fences. You see these- these fences with the pickets up them? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well they drilled the holes in them. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And we had a big machine there to drill them. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
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Speaker: There's at least four or five different styles of it. Interviewer: And do they all have different names, these styles? Speaker: There was one- the only different one that I know of we call it the Bol-- Bolton fence. He put his pickets in a little different and- but other than that they were just- they were called a split rail or- or a patent fence. But they just put in a picket different and- Interviewer: So a patent is different from a split rail? |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
Speaker: Just the black fence wire. It's ah, and you need an axe and a sledgehammer with you at all times. Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker: 'Cause you may have to split one. And you need what they call dummy pickets in order to hold up the first rail in order to get the pickets out. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Interviewer 2: Now is it dummy pickets? You take them out after? Speaker: You take them out, and then you just keep moving down- down. Interviewer: It's a fine art. |
A pointed stake driven into the ground for use in the construction of a fence or stockade, or to mark a position in surveying or military construction, to secure a tent, to tether a horse, etc. |
