Here are some "Fun Facts" about fences that you probably haven't heard about....Enjoy!
Longest Fence on Earth
The "Dingo Fence" in Australia is the longest fence on earth. It stretches for 3,488 miles or 5,600 kilometers, from Surfers Paradise Queensland to the Great Australian Bight, in south Australia. It was constructed primarily to protect the sheep from the dingos and wild dogs.
Development of Chain-Link fencing
In the United Kingdom the firm of Barnard, Bishop & Barnard was established in Norwich to produce chain-link fencing by machine. The process was developed by Charles Barnard in 1844 based on cloth weaving machines (up until that time Norwich had a long history of cloth manufacture).
Anchor Fence (established in 1898) bought the rights to the machine, and was the first US company to manufacture chain-link fencing in the United States. Anchor Fence, also holds the first US patent of chain-link. The machine was purchased from a man in 1845 from Belgium who originally invented the wire bending machine.
