A few of our readers knew about our mystery tool from the Antique Toolbox column Sept. 27 — some, from personal experience. The tool is part of the collection of the Landis Valley Village & Farm ...

Every year, each spring, my job was stretching up barbed wire. And every year I’d dream that we could put it up for hire. I like to call it stretching wire but it’s really fixing fence. And we never ...

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ERSKINE, Minn. -- Cheri Hasbrouck loves fixing fences, especially if they're barbed wire. While stretching and twisting the unyielding wire is the bane of many a rancher's existence, for Hasbrouck ...