Fence-post.
A piece of timber or a structure of other material, planted vertically in the ground, to hold panels of fence. Ingenuity has principally been exercised in contriving modes of saving timber in fences for prairie countries, and in structures as substitutes for the usual wooden posts. Two suggestive forms are shown in Figs. 1953 and 1954. One is an iron post with a spiral rib which answers as a screw for inserting it. The other is an anchor-block, to which the vertical slat of a fence is bolted.Screw-post. |
Anchor-block and post. |