Snake Rail Fencing

[Techno II]

AHA !....

Those 'X' shapes at the ends of the individual sections would give them more support from pushing beasties. (I reckon)

Nice one, Davy ! 

Cheers - Phil

And nice one, as well, Paul !! 

[Leman]

Is it just me, or are photoibucket picvtures being ruined for everyone by a whacking big statement across them saying they are being hosted by photobucket. I won't use photobucket for that very reason. Tried clicking on the above photo but nothing happened.

[fred.]

Yes - its their thing

It started a year or so ago when they pretty much blocked cross linking to photos. They kind of backed down to this huge water mark.

I think the main result was to move people to other services. The problem was for people with huge photo libraries in PB.

[Techno II]

Is it just me, or are photoibucket picvtures being ruined for everyone by a whacking big statement across them saying they are being hosted by photobucket.

It's a complete pain, Andy.

Cheers - Phil

[Raider4]

There is a certain irony to painting the matchsticks to make them 'look like wood'

No more than there is to painting the sword/spearpoint/bayonet on your little metal figure silver.

[pierre the shy]

It's a complete pain, Andy.

Cheers - Phil

You can view picture correctly, without the "Photobucket" label easily enough - just put your mouse pointer somewhere on the picture and right click, this should bring up a menu with "view image" at the top. now point at the veiw image entry and left click - hey presto you should be now be able to see the photo correctly...well works every time for me.

Looks like I won't have to ask Paul to respond after all 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Doing that opens a new tab, with no watermark. Ta La

[steve_holmes_11]

Davy ......Equines (the frigging sods ) and bovines (who have brains barely bigger than an a single celled organism),  take NO notice of anything if they can stick their heads/necks 'over the top rail'.....and push......They don't even need to push.

How snake rail fencing was considered of any use to keep big beasties in, is beyond me.

Cheers - Phil 

I don't know whether this was done, but it's not a tough job (for folks who fell trees and split logs) to cut a notch in the top of a rail which will assist in retaining the rail above.

[DaveH]

Reminds me that I have a load of matchsticks bought for the purpose of making split rail fences for my figures.

[Techno II]

Doing that opens a new tab, with no watermark. Ta La

Well, Huzzah !!! 

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well, Huzzah !!! 

Cheers - Phil

A modicum of sarcasum there MR Lewis 

[Techno II]

Nah !...  It's just nice to be able to get rid of that frigging logo.

Cheers - Phil.

[paulr]

You can view picture correctly, without the "Photobucket" label easily enough - just put your mouse pointer somewhere on the picture and right click, this should bring up a menu with "view image" at the top. now point at the veiw image entry and left click - hey presto you should be now be able to see the photo correctly...well works every time for me.

Looks like I won't have to ask Paul to respond after all 

Thanks, that works for me as well
I'm still annoyed at Photobucket and have moved to flickr for new piccies, although I'm getting closer to my free photo limit
I don't know companies that expect to be paid for providing photo hosting

[Heedless Horseman]

Thanks for the Photobucket thing! For me, it opens photo in a new tab...could be useful for referencing/comparing?

Getting back on the rails: Was just wondering if areas such as Russia, parts of Germany or other 'tree rich' regions, used the same idea?  Snake Rail could be a US invention, but could have been imported by immigrants. Rather think that for much of Eastern Europe and Russia, there have never been a lot of 'feild boundaries'?

[kipt]

Some of my ACW fencing:



GHQ stone fencing painted as brick.



GHQ stone walls



GHQ walls with added rail (called stone and rider)



Pendraken split rail



GHQ split rail



Homemade matchstick split rail and knocked down fence



GHQ post and rail (in back)



Pendraken post and rail



Timecast hasty breastworks



Battlescale hasty earthworks