Two good ol' Nebraska cowboys were given the task of rebuilding a barbwire fence on an 80-acre pasture. First they removed the clips and stays from the old top wire on the long side; a quarter mile long. Being a progressive outfit, they were using modern agriculture technology. They backed their pickup to the gatepost on the southeast corner of the pasture. That allowed them to hook the ranch's homemade wire winder to the free length of wire. The homemade winder contraption was secured to the pickup bed and powered by a 5.5 Briggs and Stratton gasoline engine they robbed off an old lawnmower.
They jerked the little engine to a coughing start with a few tugs on the manual cord then each jumped up on the tailgate, one on each side of the winder. They appreciated the modern machine marvel that replaced the pain-in-the-buttocks of rolling 1,320 feet of rusty bob wire through the overgrowth, rocks and trash, by hand.
They were daydreaming of goin' to the Zorn Theater in Benkelman, just takin' it easy. They were stirred out of the fantasy when the wire began to tighten; the little engine that could was going all out and starting to whine!
To paint a better picture of the situation, it would help to know:
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