A few of our readers knew about our mystery tool from the Antique Toolbox column Sept. 27 — some, from personal experience. The tool is part of the collection of the Landis Valley Village & Farm ...

Every year, each spring, my job was stretching up barbed wire. And every year I’d dream that we could put it up for hire. I like to call it stretching wire but it’s really fixing fence. And we never ...

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Clippers in hand, volunteers snap the metal lines of an old fence, its strands drooping and thorns rusted. Once they sever the wire from the posts, they coil it up and cart it away. These are the ...

ERSKINE, Minn. -- Cheri Hasbrouck loves fixing fences, especially if they're barbed wire. While stretching and twisting the unyielding wire is the bane of many a rancher's existence, for Hasbrouck ...