The Rural Voice, 1993-05, Page 31nineteenth century, however, did not
completely eliminate snake fences.
Many of them are still used in
Ontario today.
Why did this simple fence design
persist, whereas other designs, like
the Model T Ford, came and went?
There is no single answer to this
question.
The zigzag fence was made of
white cedar trees, which grew in the
Great Lakes - St. Lawrence forest
region. These cedars, when cut down
with crosscut saws and split into rails,
provided weather -resistant wood for
the building of fences.
Farmers hauled the rails to
location and put them in place
between fields and neighbouring
farms. For those farmers with cedar
trees, it ensured a cost-effective, if
labor-intensive way of constructing a
fence.
Unlike stone and stump fences,
these snake fences could be opened
up easily to enable farmers to enter
another field with equipment, or to
change pastures for their cattle. And
because of its simple construction, it
could easily be diverted around trees
which happened to be in the way.
The most important feature of
these fences, however, was their
durability. The fact that many such
fences constructed in the early part of
this century still stand, attests to their
„«durability.
In my research I came across
The style of the fences was altered to
make them more sturdy.
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