When I was a kid my Grandfather had a decoration he hung on the wall with various kinds and shapes of Barbed Wire affixed to it. I was always interested and had a veiled respect for this display because it could hurt me if I touched it and it also seemed strange that a man would display what seemed like garbage on the wall. Well, now that I am a little older and realize that the barbed wire isn’t going to jump off the display and cut me I find it a fascinating thing to photograph. I ran across some while I took my little Gold Country drive the other day. I hope you enjoy the different perspective and the good excuse to use my macro lens.
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 
There were a lot of innovations in barbed wire. Google enlightens: https://flic.kr/p/dn31FQ or ‘barbed wire types’.
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I should try to identify my barbed wire types! Thanks for the photos. Not too far off from my grandfathers little display.
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Interesting to see the intricacies of this wire. Love the story about your Grandfather’s artwork. 🙂
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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
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Fascinated at your grandfather’s interest in barbed wire and love your pics.
I’ve a huge thing about barbed wire, having spent so much of my life crawling through barbed wire fences for one reason or another.
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Sounds fun and interesting and dangerous!
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Heey, I have a collection of barbed wire, too. I could be your grandfather’s age…where things like that seemed cool! I have some on an old barnwood piece of wood, and others just in a drawer.
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His was on barnwood too! I sincerely doubt you are my grandfathers age!
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I think there may have been a kind of fad for doing that back in the day…on barnwood, looking rustic.
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Definitely. Although I think back then it wasn’t considered rustic. It was just what people did because it was what they had laying around. Or at least that’s what my grandfather did on his ranch. He re-used EVERYTHING.
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You might be right…maybe it wasn’t thought of as “rustic”…it just WAS rustic, and cool! Still is. You are making me homesick for barbed wire and barnwood!!
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it remained me a hike in Nepal, the wire was quite high, and I didn’t see it and hurt my head… that’s was painful…
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Oh my, your head? It must have been high. What are they driving to keep in or out?
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it’s was really not visible…
after i felt pain and saw blood, I was thinking “running away from a prison has to be difficult” 😉
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It sure is! I suppose that is the point. Did you have any hound dogs running after you at the same time?
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fortunately no 🙂
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There is a Barbed Wire Museum in LaCrosse, Kansas. Looks more interesting than it sounds!
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I’ll be darned. Someone made a museum about it?! That’s hilarious.
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You could probably visit some time?
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Maybe, it’s pretty far away. But, it would be a fun little thing to see on a trip across the country!
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I love barbed wires, it always creates nice pictures !
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Thanks, I had fun with it! Glad you liked it.
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My main acquaintance with barbed wire has usually been up close and personal! Most recently it was clearing old barbed wire off of our property which once served as a ranch. Very heavy gloves required. Beyond that my experience has been crawling through barbed wire fences. Always a challenge with many a scratch as an award. 🙂 –Curt
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Right up there with crawling through blackberry bushes!
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Yes! 🙂
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An interesting subject. A symbol of many things. I remember, how, as kids, in Normandy, we’d slip under the barbed wire separating one field from the other. And I just realized how similar the French word is: “Barbelés” (Plural always)
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Love the similarities in language. What is it in Spanish?
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Totally different I’m afraid: Alambre de púa. 😦
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Weird. It should be similar!
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Yep. Dunno why.
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We should write a letter to complain…
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Like your sense of humour. 🙂
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