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daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I love seeing this story… it reminds me of 30 years ago when I worked in the telephone industry. Heard about telephone copmanies rolling out service in very very rural areas - running signals over barbed-wire fences because it was too expensive to run dedicated cables. That did degrade the signal, but it worked.

I know it’s a completely different thing entirely, but it just gave me nostalgia remembering hearing about that.

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Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I know I has nothing to do with your story. But I just spent the weekend removing barbed wire fencing. And I just want to say, fuck barbed wire. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put that shit up should be wrapped in it and pushed down a steep slope.

And by whoever I mean my great grandfather. But also everyone else involved. All the way to the factory making it.

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- Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve put barbed wire up, I’ve taken it down. It ain’t that hard. Just cut it into lengths you can easily coil by hand if you don’t have a winding machine.
  
  Personally I think woven wire fencing is a bigger pain in the ass. All that grass and weeds growing through it and then rolling it back up.
  
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