1883.] A NEW DROPPER FOR COBRIMONY FENCING. 1 19 



A NEW DROPPER FOR COBRIMONY FENCING. 



iE have had brought under our notice a very important 

 improvement in the manufacture of Corrimony Fencing. 

 Upon the introduction of this economical style of strained 

 wire fencing by Mr. Thomas Ogilvy in 1873, it rapidly grew in 

 universal favour as eminently suitable for enclosing woods and planta- 

 tions, and there are at the present time many hundreds of miles in 

 use for this purpose in various parts of the country. 



The general features of the Corrimony system of fencing, and the 

 many advantages it possesses over other systems for traversing 

 undulating ground, and the cheap and 

 easy method of fixing it, are now so 

 well known, that it is unnecessary 

 here to enter on a minUte and detailed 

 description of the method of its 

 construction, and the variety of pur- 

 poses to which it has been applied. 



To properly secure the droppers, 

 that is, the vertical pillars that are not 

 fixed in the ground, has always been a 

 matter of some difficulty, and since 

 the days of the primitive wooden drop- 

 pers , many improvements have from 

 time to time been introduced to effect 

 this object. The plan hitherto adopted 

 by manufacturers has been invariably 

 to fix the droppers to the wires by 

 means of wedges. To effectively 

 secure the wedges is a tedious opera- 

 tion occupying considerable time, and 

 from the force of the wind, the attacks 

 of cattle, and other causes, there is 

 always a liability of the wedges work- 

 ing loose, and the cost of keeping the 

 fence in proper repair is an item 

 which must be taken into account. 



The patent 'Lockfast' dropper, 

 manufactured by Messrs. William 

 Smith & Son, of Inverness, which we 

 now describe, is a distinct departure from and a vast improvement on 

 any other system in use that we know of. 



Fig. 4. 



A Dropper fixed 



complete. 



Fig. 5. 



A new Intermediate 



Winding Pillar. 



