Robbell Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Just looking through the gallery and its apparent that there are regional differences. eg:- our friends north of the Border use round strainers, square posts (stobs) and the strainer tops are champhered off , post knocking is called chapping. what other differences have we spotted on our travels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon McMillan Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 You call a Maul a hammer, a stay a prop, a spike a crow bar and a wire twister a twizler lol Plus everyones got Landrovers down your bit while its mostly pick ups up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premnayloon Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Yep we call barbed wire pikey wire, Gate catches often referred to as snakes, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontrowfencing Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Gate catches round here are snecks, quite similar, in our local dialect which is now nearly gone, would almost be the same as how you would say snakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D A MacDougall Fencing Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 For me a stays , a ranse,crow bar a pinch bar our a guddel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hampsvalleyboundaries Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 We call a stay a strut here. And a stay block a dead man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Post Driver Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I was up in the Scottish borders a few weeks back and noticed a fair bit of plain wire fencing, some with droppers. Pretty rare down south here, I've seen some of the all metal kit on estates and motorways http://www.jbcorie.co.uk/stock-dropper-fencing.html I see Lee Hampton and D A Macdougal put some multi strand plain wire up, tidy work too. Similar to what the kiwis put up, who came up with it first? Scottish farmers emigrating out there or vice versa? Or just coincidence as its the most suitable for the terrain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D A MacDougall Fencing Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 post driver don't no who came up with multi wire fence first.but i do no the kiwi s are the best at it and it's well worth learning there ways . cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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