Fence To Keep Out Or In

If you can call it a fence then the longest in the world is The Great Wall of China

. Of course it is not a fence in the modern use of the word but the object was the same and that was to keep people out and in particular that applied to the marauding Mongolians.

In farming the same principle applies except that it also is designed to keep livestock in. Ramblers are tolerated by most farmers but not when they climb and destroy fences only when they stick to designated footpaths and use styles and gates which should but are not always left shut.

The Great Wall of China was built over a period of well over a thousand years begun in the seventh Century BC and finished a mere seven hundred years ago. We had a similar wall in the U.K. built by the Romans and named after the Emperor who had it built; Hadrian.

Hadrian's Wall was to keep the Scots away as the Romans finally realised that Scotland was hardly worth the effort and the Scots would never be tamed!

The wall was the longest in Europe at seventy three miles and there the similarity ends with The Great Wall of China is concerned as that one is a whopping three thousand and seven hundred miles in length.

This means the wall in China is over fifty times the length of the one dividing the Old Scottish Border with England.

Farmers in the UK often cite the fact that they need wire fencing to keep the livestock in and not necessarily to keep people out and in most cases this is believable but there is no taking away the fact that there is far less paranoia about people roaming open country areas on The Continent than there is in Britain.

Britain may be fortunate in having protected public rights of way but a visit to somewhere like Germany will show there is no real need for these rights of way as with fewer fenced in areas of countryside people can walk more or less where they like.

The absurd situation where a Dutchman can own a few hundred square miles of Scotland and refuse access to any British born person would never be allowed in most other countries.

Fencing supplies can mean wooden structures or barbed wire as well as electric fencing. Electric fences need some care as the wrong voltage can produce a lethal shock to humans and animals.

During the First World War the Germans erected an electric fence three hundred miles long between the Dutch and Belgian border and with their usual ruthless efficiency sent several thousand volts down the line which killed several hundred people as well as countless numbers of animals.

Obviously the correct setting is supposed to give the animal or human intruder a simple mild shock at a level that deters any further contact with the wire.

by: John Samual

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