News — Australian fence post

The internet is littered with videos peddling all sorts of advice, reviews and information on fencing. But like everything on the internet, it's a case of "use with care". So how do you separate the wheat from the chaff, or more apposite, how do you separate the sheep from the goats? One solution is to head to the Australian web site of Tim Thompson (https://timthompson.ag/). Who is Tim Thompson? Tim has spent over 20 years teaching agriculture including setting up small farm operations in high schools to engage the kids, get their hands dirty, and to teach them first-hand a...

Spirally-twisted steel posts are widely distributed across Australia, but are not particularly common. They date from the late 1920s, and a persistent rural myth is that they were screwed into the ground. There are both right-hand and left-hand spirals, but left-hand posts are much more common. What’s the story behind them? The post and the patents The Corkscrew Post is a steel post with a distinctive shallow H-shaped cross-section, spirally twisted into a corkscrew over most of its length. Three patents cover the post, and more importantly, the machines to make them: George David Watson (engineer, 14 Mayfair Street, Lower...