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    rogerjenkins Guest

    Default Somewhere here there's a boundry line,----

    This is probably the best place for this, ( if not please move to the most appropriate location ! )

    Below photos show my boundry with my neighbour. Luckily we are good friends all round. If it was, " Suburbia, " Feathers would most probably be flying as to who owns what, & where, - or it would be headlines on some tellie Current Affairs program somewhere, or,............!!

    Official Surveryors have been through,- and gave up, and left things as they found them

    Best description,- It's a Geniune Classic Aussie Backyard Fence, and deserves to be preserved as such, as they are becoming a rarity in this day, & age.

    Roger

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    I can see a heritage order on that one

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    The pictorial definition of 'approximate'
    Cliff.
    If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.

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    Someone's obviously sneaking in, digging up the post holes and moving them at night.
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    Looks perfickly orright to me! I'd only worry if it had trmites!

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    Looks perfectly fine to me.
    I used to live in a little resort village. I had maybe 3m grass from my front door to the bush.

    Anal surveyors said: "Nope. You have 20cm."

    Me: "So what do you think you can do about the guy down the road who has had his house in the surveyed road allowance for 40 years? Go away. Flock off. Don't ever come back."

    Apparently they took heed of my sage advice.

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    rogerjenkins Guest

    Default That fence was put together about 1960, or thereabouts !

    Both houses were built from surplus SA Housing Trust materials round about 1957 - 58 by a couple of guys who were local contractors for the SA housing Trust at that time. Three other houses next street back, were also built of similar materials at about the same time,- all on allotments of about 1200 sq metres, ( no two are exact ).
    Each boundry fence is different. All are, " Wonky," in design. The posts are roughly-sawn from old Jetty / Wharf sleepers. The rails are a mix of Stringy-bark, & various other hardwoods, with a, "sprinkling," of old floorboards; matchboards, and various other timber planks, to which is attached in various attachment forms, a mixed variety of old corragated-iron, old mouse-proofing sheets, ( from the old Grain-stacks that were on the foreshore back in the early 1960's ), rusty wirenetting, pieces of barb-wire, plain wire, and whatever else that happened to be handy to the fence constructors at that time !!
    Must take some more photos of our Classic Aussie Boundry Fences in this town,- My neighbours rear boundry fence is almost as, " Straight as a dog's hind leg, " - literally !!!!
    There's several more," Classis, " located in the Port Vincent Main Street,-
    One backyard even has, ( wait for it ), a Leaning Shed, which is part of the leaning and crooked back fence, both of which have been there for, " Yonks. " Then there's another backyard fence here which has a, " kink," in it to go around a rather large sprawling Gum Tree, which just happened to be growing right on the boundry some time in the past,- and there it did stay, and whoever the boundry fence builder was, they took the easy way out by going round it !!!
    Other towns on the Yorke Peninsula Region of SA also have some, " Classics, " too,- and IF one looks around most country towns, you are bound to find even more !!
    Roger

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    1957-1958? That's practically brand new! My place was built 1912, Still, you can run into some creeps who need every square centimeter (the guy next door). What ever. Fill your boots.

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    I grew up in a suburb of Hobart, until the early 60's.
    The fences were "variable" to say the least.
    We also had little gates in our fences, so children and adults could pass between properties.
    When, we moved to the country, 1962, there seemed to be no boundaries, just a general agreement, despite every land owner knowing "exactly" where his/her land title occupied..
    Modern Australian bureaucrats and regulations have a lot to answer for, in the increasing rates of depression, among st older and freer thinking Australians.

    I love your fence.
    Good on you for being friends with your neighbor.

    Paul.
    I FISH THEREFORE I AM.

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