Picket fence

“Procure pickets two inches wide, by half an inch thick, and six feet long; nail them to two rails, three inches square and twelve feet long; at each end of every rail, U-shaped pieces of stout hoop-iron (hogshead iron is best) are fastened by screws, so as to form staples, through which posts seven feet long and two and a half inches in diameter, pointed at both ends, are thrust and set firmly in the ground.” — Harcourt, 1889

Keywords

fence, wall, picket, gate

Galleries

Fences and Gates

Source

Helen Harcourt Home Life in Florida (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton and Co., 1889) 304

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