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[TVC]

Off to the Laughter Loft for our monthly dose of comedy, including Ian Cognito tonight.

 

[User19783]

I've got 350 to catch up

Have I missed anything?

 

[hopless500]

I've got 350 to catch up

Have I missed anything?

Nope

 

[EltonFrog]

I've got 350 to catch up

Have I missed anything?

You better get your finger out then.

 

[Hill Wimp]

We are sitting in silence.

It's bliss.

 

[slowmotion]

That looks like Red Brand fence and barbed wire. My father drew wire there.

I wandered down to the fence again this evening to say hello to my new friends. I reckon the wire knots are Monarch, but I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Great Fight..

 

[TVC]

I've got 350 to catch up

Have I missed anything?

Depends, do you like cats?

 

[Lullabelle]

If you like a comedian who makes you then Ian Cognito is your man. Check him out but not if easily offended.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I wandered down to the fence again this evening to say hello to my new friends. I reckon the wire knots are Monarch, but I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination. View attachment 350013 View attachment 350015

You can get Red Brand in Monarch, or Square Deal knot. looks like a 4 point Sierra barbed wire as well. When my dad came back from playing baseball in the minor leagues, he put in to be removed from lay-off, as it was the Depression. Still pretty depressing for a few more months, then they called him back one week-end, he'd been out playing ball and working somewhere else and hadn't heard the news. They called him straight back to the wire mill, not the yard. When he got to work, it was a changed place. There were guard towers, patrol boats in the canal, and barbed wire all around the plant. They told him at the gate, when he got a badge to allow him entry(for the first time) that Mr. Chamberlain had not received a reply, and they had huge contracts for barbed wire.

 

[slowmotion]

You can get Red Brand in Monarch, or Square Deal knot

Square Deal looks pretty nifty. Cross Lock comes close to art! I would love to see the knitting machines in action.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just cycled to the pub with my foot in a cast. And then back. A slow speed epic, during which I discovered bare toe overlap, a phenomenon (provoked by pîss-poor Porsche parking) I'd never ever imagined before.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Square Deal looks pretty nifty. Cross Lock comes close to art! I would love to see the knitting machines in action.

Here's making wire, Wire mill starts at about 4:30, place used to be full of men and wire drawing tables and lead-zinc baths and loading stumps, but everything looks robotic nowadays.
Still 1100 working there. I'd guess there is little film of the fence making process, it may be proprietary. Fenceline Supplies markets this fence in the UK, IIRC.

 

[Reynard]

Tonight in Tescos I picked up, amongst a few other items, a sausagemeat stuffed roast-in-the-bag chicken for £1.50 and a large tub with a medley of green veg with herb butter. That'll do me nicely for tomorrow - all I need to do is rustle up a tray of roasties.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4781958, member: 9609"]in all my puff I have never considered different types of knots on fencing wire - this is probably going to knock another half mile per hour my speed - is there just the three for me to collect or could there be more ? I do like the look of the 'square deal' but now need to see them in real ife[/QUOTE]
Same here. If it wasn't for my new Monmouthshire bovine pals, I would never have known about any of this.