Explore the intricate process of turning raw steel into barbed wire. From steel wire drawing to the final barbed twists, see how each step ensures strong and reliable fencing.

The best barbed wire is now coated in a mixture that’s 95 percent aluminium and 5 percent zinc. “That’s been used in utility wires, stranded cable, and things like that.

The 1887 Glidden Barb-Fence Journal wrote of the idea of using barbed wire to fence out Native people: “The government should by all means adopt for this purpose the Glidden ‘Thick set.’ ...

An 18” piece of barbed wire that’s worth $600 (it features barbs in the shape of cockleburs). A Raven’s nest built primarily of barbed wire.

Today, an estimated 620,000 miles of fencing, most of it barbed wire, stretches across the rural West, and its toll on the region continues to mount. Animals that try to jump over or wiggle under ...