Posted 28 days ago
Grantcody
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Found these on my property in northern Minnesota. Super cool after finding out what they were and not just scrap.
WW1 corkscrew fence posts | ||
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WW1 corkscrew fence posts | ||
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Posted 28 days ago
Grantcody
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Found these on my property in northern Minnesota. Super cool after finding out what they were and not just scrap.
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Grantcody, Cool. :-)
I hadda look those up:
*snip*
In the December 2015 issue of Farm Collector, an article on the Vaughn post auger suggested that the U.S. Cavalry used the augers to create temporary horse corrals on the Great Plains. More likely, the fence posts with the corkscrew-style design are surplus World War I barbed wire anchor posts.
These posts were set in no-man’s land, the region between the opposing armies’ trenches, with barbed wire strung through the loops forming an entanglement to slow the advancing enemy. The barbed wire barriers were set up by wiring parties that ventured out under cover of darkness. The noise of hammering a traditional fence post into the ground was found to draw the enemy’s attention, so screwing these posts into the ground was much quieter and therefore safer.
*snip*
https://www.farmcollector.com/field-notes/screwy-fence-posts-zmnz16aprzhur/
Cool find! Time to break out the metal detectors
I am amazed that Keramikos found these, he is a lifesaver at times. I hope you had the decency to thank him !!~
PhilDMorris, No thanks needed. :-)
Grantcody posted just enough information in the title to pique my curiousity. I didn't know what was special about WWI corkscrew fence posts, so I had to investigate a bit.
I decided that if I hadn't previously known what was special about WWI corkscrew fence posts, there might be others in that same boat, so I linked what I'd found with an excerpt.
I've learned so much from Collectors Weekly Show & Tell.