Another barbed wire fence story

[6GUNSONLY]

I still have two scars on my thigh where I had to hurriedly navigate a barbed wire fence because my uncle Del's old pasture bull was hot on my heels. I was about 10 years old at the time.

 

[Mobuck]

^^^I have one of those 60 year old barbed wire scars on my left thigh. Back in the 60's the only livestock water we had in several pastures came from wells. I was hand pumping water for some thirsty bulls and they kept knocking over the piece of rain gutter we used to channel the water from pump on one side of a barbed wire fence to the water trough on the other side. The gate was 100' away so I'd step up on the side of the water trough and step over the top barbed wire. One bull jostled another that bumped into me knocking my foot off the trough. I fell astride the barbed wire and ripped a large gash in my thigh. By the time I got to Grandma's house the pants leg was soaked with blood but she was able to stop the flow and put in a couple of stitches. o_O Yeah, you had to be tough back then. How many 'modern day' 10-12 year olds would sit and let Grandma put stitches in a gaping wound using a sewing needle and thread????

 

[RoninPA]

In 1960 (I was 7), I ran my arm through the glass window on the back door, slit my wrist. Luckily it was a vertical cut, not across the wrist so it didn't do major damage and it was my mom who sewed it up with a needle and thread from her sewing basket (6 stitches). Looked as good as any surgeon could do.

When we were stationed at Minot AFB, ND, our base housing unit backed up to a farmers field. When it snowed and blowed in the winter the snow would drift up and over the 4 wire fence. I would cut steps in the drifts so the kids could go sled riding and would sail easily over the 4th wire. I told this to people who weren't country folk and they had no idea what I meant by a 4 wire fence. So I had to explain.

 

[wolfsong]

No scars from crossing them, but a few from stringing countless miles over the years. I have left large patches of shirts and pants behind, though. Kinda like Christmas decorations...

 

[Hvymax]

I saw a friend lose a nut climbing over a Chain Link fence topped with barbed wire when I was a kid. I decided that if I needed past a fence that bad I would just cut it!!!

 

[Watertender]

I saw a friend lose a nut climbing over a Chain Link fence topped with barbed wire when I was a kid. I decided that if I needed past a fence that bad I would just cut it!!!

A friend of mine was a shotgun man at a medium security prison and his job was to patrol the outer fence in a pickup truck. One time there was a convict who got into the razor wire and was wound up in it all cut to shreds including his nutsack. He held his shotgun on the moron while other staff members used a bucket truck to extract the convict from the wire.