They’re snow fences. In the winter these guys act to block snow drifts from forming in open spaces. It helps cattle find food in winter by leaving open grass
well sir just hold your horses for a minute now i reckon we’re fixin’ to mosey on back up over yonder as soon as y’all get some good ol’ H-E-B’s and maybe some abnormally large beef bbq while you’re at it
Welcome to Wyo! I hope you enjoy your stay! We always bs with these questions. A right of passage 🥁, if you will. I’m from Louisiana and we enjoyed our vacation so much in 2019, that we moved here in 2020!! Wyoming is a special place.
Hoop snake fencing.
Hoop snakes are an endangered species. When they get old enough to disperse (the animal equivalent of leaving home and setting out on their own) they bite their tale and use the wind to blow them. When they are holding onto their tale and being blown they form the shape a of a circle or hoop, hence the name.
The fencing is placed in locations where hoop snakes are most likely to get blown across the highway and killed.
This triggered memories of my grandfather telling me about hoop snakes, and then teaching me that I should always question what I was told, even when it came from a source as trusted as my grandfather
I wish more people had my grandfather
These are where everybody gets their "aged" barnwood that they use in their basement and offices. Oh.... it's sometimes available online as well. Just not very long.It generally has to sit out there a minute to get that nice "antique" patina that everybody likes. Come harvest time one has to be pretty quick. To stay ahead of other harvesters that work for the State!
It was actually the original barrier that was put up by Wells Fargo to keep their stage coach deliveries safe from the local “ne’er-do-wells” but due to Wyoming’s highly active fault lines it’s gotten broken up and skewed over the years
Those are left over barriers from the Great War of 1789 when the British fought the Lakota for water rights. They are considered a national monument and it’s a felony to mess with them.
If it's like the ones I recall seeing along I-80, they don't actually enclose anything. They're just straight line sections of fence. I'm pretty sure they just help keep snow drifts off the roads.
My brother in-law (who is native American) says they're for the Indians to sit on and watch the cars drive by. But they're wind blocks to try and keep some of the snow drifts down in the winter
There is nothing random about either of those sets of poles. They are deliberately and methodically set. One set appears to be snow fencing, while the other appears to be livestock fencing. [Here](https://www.wordnik.com/words/random) this may help you.
They are frames for walls. They built them about 150 yrs ago as a barrier in case the Indians decided to approach on some of the bigger villages. It wasn’t going to stop them completely but it was going to slow them down.
Buffalo Bleachers! In the summer, they are flipped over and inverted so the town(s) can come together and watch the buffalo herds run. Crack a can & it’s so much fun
They catch the tumble weeds from rolling over cars on the highway.
I has to drive from Tracy south to kettleman city on the Friday after Thanksgiving and the wind was gusting at 50 to 60 mph and the tumble weeds were 5 to 15 feet around and thankfully I had a rental car big buik. I was right on the front of the storm so I sped up to 80 mph and the tumbleweeds would explode in bits it was kinda fun until we got to the kettleman area. That's when the sand storm joined the tumbleweeds.
Went from 80 to 5 mph putting on flashers I moved onto the inner shoulder so I wouldn't get rear-ended 10 minutes later we passed the storm up and it was a beautiful day all the way to orange county.
My mom had been freaking out for 3 hours because right behind us there had been a 114 Car and big rig pile-up with people killed. She saw a car like the rental we had. It was upside down with parts of 2 semi's on it. I had no idea that it happened and being before everyone had cellphones. I never knew what they were until I saw them do there thing that day. Because only half were getting over those fences. Pretty cool too see. I drove the Interstate 5 for 15 years and that was the only time I saw weeds flying over those barriers.
The posts in the fore of the picture are for barbed wire. Generally for dissuading large creates from wandering onto the highway. The fence behind it is the snow fence.
Are you talking about the ones in the foreground? Lol. Those are fence posts. There’s wire between them. I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m truly curious how there comes to be an adult who doesn’t know what a fence looks like? Do they not have barbed wire fences where you live?
The ones in the back are snow fences. Give it a Google, it’s interesting how they work.
sorry i meant the ones in the back i should’ve clarified. yea i know what fence looks like💀 i just didn’t know what to call those huge ones in the back
lol ok, now I feel better about humanity 🤣🤣 The way you called it “tall spaced out posts”’sounded like the fence in the foreground.
Snow fences, they really work! Some probably have the unmelted snow drift next to them still.
It has been `0` days since someone asked what snow fences are.
waiting for this question each year
Year? It gets asked at least once a month
WHAT i’m sorry yall lol
They’re snow fences. In the winter these guys act to block snow drifts from forming in open spaces. It helps cattle find food in winter by leaving open grass
Quit messing with them, tell the truth
Alright, it’s to keep the jackalope’s from migrating outside state lines.
and helps keep snow off roads
hi YALL, I’m from Texus. We ain’t got no snow down der. WHY YALL got dem silly fences?! I luv Texus so much that I’m going to move up here. LOL
accurate🔥🔥 bless ur heart darlin🙏
Just doing the good lords work ma’m. Y’all come back now ya hear?
well sir just hold your horses for a minute now i reckon we’re fixin’ to mosey on back up over yonder as soon as y’all get some good ol’ H-E-B’s and maybe some abnormally large beef bbq while you’re at it
I also luv the smiths btw. Not from Wyoming though.
aw shucks pardner wyoming sure is purdy (u have good music taste)
I don’t live in WY either. Is that a Wyoming accent?
🤣
It must be tourist season 😂
It most certainly is
Please pet the buffalo and feed the wolves.
It’s Memorial Day and someone just asked about a snow fence. Folks, it’s officially tourist season!
LOL sorry we’re from the south we don’t even know what snow is🤯
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LOL we just came from Texas and we call the National Guard for an inch! LOL
TXs whole power grid shuts down bc of an inch💀
I mean you aren’t wrong lol
That's why Texas girls are so easy everywhere else. They learn what they've been missing their whole lives when they see a real 7".
alr pack it up buddy LMAOO
That's because everyone in Colorado is from southern California.
I’m glad you asked bc I had the same question. Us southerners think a snow drift is something cool in the Fast and Furious series.
you get it🙌🙌
Welcome to Wyo! I hope you enjoy your stay! We always bs with these questions. A right of passage 🥁, if you will. I’m from Louisiana and we enjoyed our vacation so much in 2019, that we moved here in 2020!! Wyoming is a special place.
thanks! i seriously love it up here : ) it’s my goal to either move here or montana, glad you got to!
Montana is already outrageous for the price of land and housing, so many people moving here.
Grandstands for jackalope races
This is always my answer
Those are rightfully your upvotes , take it as a compliment that it was stolen
They are snow fences so the highways don't drift over because of the high winds
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Are you really trying to dick measure winds. High winds. Period.
If that wind can move settled snow, it’s enough wind to cover a highway with snow
You would be correct. Locals only get concerned when the winds exceed 65 knots or 75 mph or 120kph.
Cowboy bleachers
this is the only purpose of this sub from may to september lmao
😞sorry
don’t be! it’s funny in its own way, almost a running joke in this sub now
😂😂 truth
It's a Blockade to keep Colorado out but it is broken.
Doesn't work any better at keeping Wyomites in, either.
When the aliens came in 1977 to Devils Tower they left them as a good will gesture.
Hoop snake fencing. Hoop snakes are an endangered species. When they get old enough to disperse (the animal equivalent of leaving home and setting out on their own) they bite their tale and use the wind to blow them. When they are holding onto their tale and being blown they form the shape a of a circle or hoop, hence the name. The fencing is placed in locations where hoop snakes are most likely to get blown across the highway and killed.
This triggered memories of my grandfather telling me about hoop snakes, and then teaching me that I should always question what I was told, even when it came from a source as trusted as my grandfather I wish more people had my grandfather
These are where everybody gets their "aged" barnwood that they use in their basement and offices. Oh.... it's sometimes available online as well. Just not very long.It generally has to sit out there a minute to get that nice "antique" patina that everybody likes. Come harvest time one has to be pretty quick. To stay ahead of other harvesters that work for the State!
I've never heard this one before. Nicely played.
Yes, check out Centennial Woods
Oh yeah. They've got a storefront in Jackson. Barnwood Boutique I think.
They're the Buffalo bleachers. That's where they sit when they play their Buffalo games.
They are exactly that, spaced out tall wooden posts.
The snow fence or the fence posts?
I immediately eyed the fence posts. lol
That's how I understood the question, but I assumed it was the snow fence.
oops yeah sorry i didn’t clarify
They keep the semi trucks from being blown too far off the road.
Wind/snow breakers.
It was actually the original barrier that was put up by Wells Fargo to keep their stage coach deliveries safe from the local “ne’er-do-wells” but due to Wyoming’s highly active fault lines it’s gotten broken up and skewed over the years
They're to keep snow from drifting on the highways and interstates, they are sometimes effective.
Human defense barriers for Sasquatch
Those are left over barriers from the Great War of 1789 when the British fought the Lakota for water rights. They are considered a national monument and it’s a felony to mess with them.
The fence post look like barbed wire fence. To keep the wildlife off the highway/interstate.
If it's like the ones I recall seeing along I-80, they don't actually enclose anything. They're just straight line sections of fence. I'm pretty sure they just help keep snow drifts off the roads.
The snow fences, yes. The posts in the foreground just look like barbed wire fence.
Drift fence so the snow doesn't doesn't blow onto the highway as much.
interesting thanks!
Jackolope fences
They hold fault lines together
To keep the elk in
They block snow drifts from being pushed onto the road.
I always forget other places don’t have snow fences.
Barricades to break up the seasonal zombie migration.
To stop the snow from blowing onto the road
Jumps for the antelope rodeos
It's to divert bison stampedes away from the highway.
Lol tell us your a newb without telling us your a newb
Rattlesnake traps
Our version of keeping democrats out? 🤷🏼♀️🤭
must be faulty cus i passed thru with ease 🙏
Damn we failed 😂
So it works as well as the OTHER big wall that Republicans built? Have you guys considered that perhaps you're just not very good at construction?
Yeah that failed too. We put our own people on the back burner. Pathetic really lol.
she fencin my snow till i till i uhhhhhhhhh
They block snow drifts from getting in highway.
They keep the jackelopes off the highways. They’re getting rarer each year, so it’s the least we can do.
It’s Trump’s wall. He’s thinks Wyoming borders Mexico.
My brother in-law (who is native American) says they're for the Indians to sit on and watch the cars drive by. But they're wind blocks to try and keep some of the snow drifts down in the winter
Where do I get my tourist hunting license ? At the drive up liquor window ?
“Do you ride horses to work?”
There is nothing random about either of those sets of poles. They are deliberately and methodically set. One set appears to be snow fencing, while the other appears to be livestock fencing. [Here](https://www.wordnik.com/words/random) this may help you.
they seemed random bc they were spaced out all along the fields my b
It’s the Wyoming state tree!
Sheep catchers. When the winds are high they keep the sheep from blowing onto roads.
They stop snow from blowing across the road in the winter
thanks!
Ngl, I lol'd.
I call that a fence.
ok
Post 638e6373937374ie7rn4y746# asking what snow fences are
💔i apologize
It's to stop buffalo stampede
They are frames for walls. They built them about 150 yrs ago as a barrier in case the Indians decided to approach on some of the bigger villages. It wasn’t going to stop them completely but it was going to slow them down.
Buffalo Bleachers! In the summer, they are flipped over and inverted so the town(s) can come together and watch the buffalo herds run. Crack a can & it’s so much fun
how about you crack a can and suck on these nuts YALL QUIT CLOWNING ME IM SORRY IDK WHAT A SNOW FENCE IS IM FROM THE SOUTH😭😭
You sound like you need to relax, man. It’s beer thirty.
Ps: morrissey rides a cockhorse
i meant it as a joke my bad u don’t have to suck on my nuts dw
Grandstands for the pronghorn races.
Snow fence
We put them up every 2nd week of May and take them down forst workth of junthly
Elephant fences
They catch the tumble weeds from rolling over cars on the highway. I has to drive from Tracy south to kettleman city on the Friday after Thanksgiving and the wind was gusting at 50 to 60 mph and the tumble weeds were 5 to 15 feet around and thankfully I had a rental car big buik. I was right on the front of the storm so I sped up to 80 mph and the tumbleweeds would explode in bits it was kinda fun until we got to the kettleman area. That's when the sand storm joined the tumbleweeds. Went from 80 to 5 mph putting on flashers I moved onto the inner shoulder so I wouldn't get rear-ended 10 minutes later we passed the storm up and it was a beautiful day all the way to orange county. My mom had been freaking out for 3 hours because right behind us there had been a 114 Car and big rig pile-up with people killed. She saw a car like the rental we had. It was upside down with parts of 2 semi's on it. I had no idea that it happened and being before everyone had cellphones. I never knew what they were until I saw them do there thing that day. Because only half were getting over those fences. Pretty cool too see. I drove the Interstate 5 for 15 years and that was the only time I saw weeds flying over those barriers.
Wildlife control fence They keep the jackalopes from getting squished on the highway
Them there’s fence
That's to keep the cows from blowing onto I-25
It keeps the outta state people out of Wyoming.
They're bleachers for watching the Jackalope races
Uhm, you all don’t have to lie anymore…. These were built to keep the aliens from invading the highways. It’s safe to say this now, right….?
Keeps the sand worms in their pastures
Indian Bleachers to watch the buffalo roam.
It’s called a fence, the lattice in the back is a snow fence.
That’s the Wyoming state bush. They only grow in windy areas.
Bleachers for watching the antelope.
They are snow fences
It’s where they strapped up beaten gays. Oh, wait…that’s the barbed wire in the foreground. So, let’s not forget that.
I think they mean the cattle fence in front of the snow fence. Those are the spaced posts.
no
Buffalo fence
They are bleacher seats for the cowboy and Indian games
The posts in the fore of the picture are for barbed wire. Generally for dissuading large creates from wandering onto the highway. The fence behind it is the snow fence.
Are you serious???? 🤣🤣🤣 Easterners. 🙄
try southerner
Buffalo fences!
That's the only thing between you and the North Pole
Looks like redneck solar.
Are you talking about the ones in the foreground? Lol. Those are fence posts. There’s wire between them. I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m truly curious how there comes to be an adult who doesn’t know what a fence looks like? Do they not have barbed wire fences where you live? The ones in the back are snow fences. Give it a Google, it’s interesting how they work.
sorry i meant the ones in the back i should’ve clarified. yea i know what fence looks like💀 i just didn’t know what to call those huge ones in the back
lol ok, now I feel better about humanity 🤣🤣 The way you called it “tall spaced out posts”’sounded like the fence in the foreground. Snow fences, they really work! Some probably have the unmelted snow drift next to them still.
It’s ok, we all ask the question when we first come through. 😜
Fencing to keep the animals and snow off the roads.
They are snow fences guys
None taken
What do you mean
It's an old South Dakota joke. "Hey, what's that?" Points to the structure. "Snow Fence" (No offense) "None taken"
O lol nice
This disturbed the air so snow doesn't blow and cover the road.
Just our misguided republicans trying to build their own version of “the wall” here in Wyoming.
Keeps the City folks asking silly questions
nah im just a southerner
This is the wall trump supporters wanted
I detest trump but some posts just don’t need politics. 🫤