Barb Wire

Perhaps if I actually write something, even if short I will get back into the swing of things.

Currently trying to figure out all of my barb wire typologies. I live and breath the Harold Hagemeier Barbed Wire Encyclopedia. I thought barb wire was pretty bland, but the more you look at it the more you see there is HUGE amount of variety. It is a huge help. To give you an idea of how many when Hagemeier observed between 1853 and 1959 there were about 450 patents taken out of barbed wire in the USA. That is quite a few, and does not include foreign patents (no idea on this one).

Identification is not easy either. The one pictured above was identified by me as a Glidden Long and Short point barb and by a pro as a Glidden Viscous Long Barb. Guess we will get there in the end.