Selecting fence wire was a simple task when I was a boy during World War II. Daddy went into the ranch supply store, asked for barbed wire or net wire, and took whatever the merchant had in inventory.

When building barbed-wire fences, many people like to put one or two stays between each post, to help keep the wire tight and maintain proper spacing, which can also keep cattle from reaching through ...

Sometimes called “page wire” fencing, the woven wire system uses the same kind of wood and metal posts common to other fencing types. Barbed wire fencing begins with the same post arrangement as woven ...