The rails on a split-rail fence fit into holes in the posts. When a rail rots, you’ll need to lift the post to get it out and ...

assembling the fence panels is much like snapping together LEGO blocks. Rails snap into the post slots and are held in place with locking tabs. Boards interlock with each other and are held in ...

Slide each rail through the slot far enough so that you can then back it into the slot on the opposite post. With a section of the fence installed, all that remained was to reseed the damaged lawn ...

(Also, by spacing the posts 7.5 feet apart, you’re leaving some wiggle room to cut the rails to size in case a post isn’t perfectly centered in its hole or a measurement is slightly off.) For a fence ...

GRANITE QUARRY — This kind of fence goes by many names — snake-rail, worm, zigzag or battlefield fence. But it’s a thing of simple, beautiful efficiency that old-timers would have said is ...

This is the familiar wooden post-and-rail fence, in which two or three horizontal rails are nailed or otherwise attached to wooden posts. These are quite high-maintenance, so rail fences are now ...

You will undoubtedly — eventually — see a round wreath-like coil of barbed wire hanging on a post. It is the rusty remnant of a barbed wire fence from an earlier day.