The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California

Fences

Below is an individual drawing of a transverse sleeper, or cap, bored with three inch diameter auger holes to receive the stakes already mentioned.

THE left hand drawing shows a log fence whose logs and sleeper-ends hae become so rotted that it will be necessary to dismantle the fence, bay by bay, cut the logs shorter individually, create new sleepers or caps, and rebuild the entire fence in the shorter logs, and probably with new stakes as well.

The other two illustrations depict other log fences of similar construction and were like the ones on pages fifteen and seventeen, drawn in meticulous and loving detail by Dr. Jefferys, in Peel County, Ontario, Canada.

ANOTHER splendid example of a log fence of the very definitely bull-nay order, with transverse sleepers and stakes. A sturdy barrier to be sure, and one that the crinkly-horned, bad-tempered cow might just as well forgo.

STILL another interesting treatment of the end of a pioneering log fence, showing the bottom member resting on stone, and stones reinforcing the transverse sleepers and weighing them down in place, as opposed to the more arduous method of boring auger holes and driving vertical stakes. Note how the ends of these particular logs are rapidly decaying, which will mean arduous rebuilding.

A CAREFULLY-BUILT, staunch log fence, with the log ends resting on each other, and supported by stout stakes driven deeply, but with no transverse sleepers. The stakes were renewed from time to time. The height was about six feet, as borne out by the figure of the farmer in overalls.