[TheForge] Portable pen for livestock

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I am to inherit a bunch of 3/8? iron rods that were from the 
historical Sawyer Adobe in SLO. They were used as the stakes for 
portable sheep pens at market according to the story. Speculation 
was that they supported a canvas pen...unsure about that ( 
updated version of hurdles?).
I cut off a sample. Heavy pitted corrosion( not wrought). Forged 
like near pure iron... soft,very forgiving....pete f

Saint Phlip wrote:
> Yeah, I've heard of them, and they're what gave me the idea ;-) I was
> thinking about what to do to keep the geese and ducklings confined,
> but being able to move them about so they can graze, and this lattice
> just happened to come across Freecycle, so I figured I'd cut up some
> 2" X 4"s I reclaimed in another Freecycle deal into 1" X 2"s, tack
> them on the ends, and use some round bar stock I can get cheap as the
> posts. Whole thing when I'm done will cost me about $25 for hardware
> and posts, and I don't hafta go scrounging in the poison ivy ;-)
> 
> On 5/20/07, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Phlip,
>> Have you ever heard of "hurdles"?  An old English
>> handicraft of weaving wythies over a series of rods.
>> end product is perhaps 4' square with a hole in the
>> center for "stringing" a bunch of them on a pole for
>> carrying about.  The bottom ends were pointed to jab
>> into the ground.  Portable fencing.  100% organic. 8^)
>> Bruce
>> NJ
>> --- Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>> > I have 9 40" X
>> > 48" pieces of lattice, as well as assorted scrap
>> > lumber, that is going
>> > to make a portable pen for my ducks and geese,
> 
>