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How to Cross a Barbed Wire Fence
From your Archaeology Guide
Archaeology survey often requires crossing many barbed wire fences; here's how to maintain your cool (and britches)
Difficulty Level:
Average
Time Required:
5 minutes
Here's How:
- Ask permission first! Never enter a farmer's field without his or her okay.
- Approach the fence cautiously, examine it carefully before making any attempt to scale it.
- Is it loose enough to crawl under? Do that--it is not dignified, but easy.
- Is there a field entrance nearby? Cross here, you are much less likely to tear your britches.
- If there's no field entrance and it's too tight to crawl under, find a sturdy post in the fence.
- Leaning on the post, test the bottom strand of wire with your foot.
- Carefully put your weight on it, one foot at a time.
- After you're certain it will take your weight, put one foot on the second strand from the bottom.
- Press down on the top wires and swing your bottom leg over the top of the fence.
- Shift your weight onto the inside foot and swing the other leg over the top.
Tips:
- Do not damage the fence; you are in the field at the forebearance of the farmer and s/he will not be happy if you do any damage.
- Look out for electrified fences. These are single unbarbed strands; test them lightly by quickly tapping them with your finger.
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