snake rail fence...? They were a common fence style in rural east coast Canada too in 'olden days' and were what surrounded most of the pastures at my grandfather's farm where I grew up. Your description sounds like them.

Here is a link that might be useful: snake rail fence

snake rail fence...? They were a common fence style in rural east coast Canada too in 'olden days' and were what surrounded most of the pastures at my grandfather's farm where I grew up. Your description sounds like them.

Here is a link that might be useful: snake rail fence

oops - hitting refresh when this page is still open is not a good idea... :-)

I love those fences and we have them here, too. We need to keep deer out of cultivated part of our lot and sadly couldn't use these; the deer would jump them with one bolt.
I had checked out how to build them and happily the article is still online. While split cedar is the wood used here, the construction method would seem to be the same.

Here is a link that might be useful: Building a Fence The Rail Way

Great web site and link, thank you so much.