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66 • AUGUST 2011 • WORLD FENCE NEWS Through the Years with World Fence News August 1986 Here are some articles and items that were being covered in the August 1986 edition of World Fence News, 25 years ago this month. • The cover photos for August showed pictures of the Statue of Lib- erty (the Twin Towers also show up behind Lady Liberty). These were taken during the Liberty Weekend cel- ebration. Several fence companies helped with the fence renovations and crowd control fence to get ready for the celebration. • The customer wanted a 10-foot Check out World Fence News Online! www.worldfencenews.com double drive gate, but Jim Hart sees that he’ll never back that mile long bass boat through anything narrower SWAN-BOND Fused-Bonded Wire than 25 feet. The oddball customers are out of hibernation. • WFN contributing editor Herb Borner passed along some expert ad- vice on working with barbed wire, in- cluding making connections to terminal posts and gates and some tips on stretching barbed wire. • Pete Martin gave some valuable tips on avoiding the most common headaches in automatic gate operator installations. • WFN contributing editor Jim Lucci examined one of a supervisor’s most unpleasant tasks: firing an em- ployee. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it, but above all, Lucci stresses, don’t let it become emotional. • The first truck entry into the truck contest that year was a Ford sub- mitted by American Fence Co. of Cot- tondale, Ala. August 1991 Here are some articles and items that were being covered in the August 1991 issue of World Fence News, 20 years ago this month. • The cover photos for August showed a fence job in the Mojave TEMPORARY FENCE PANELS 3,000 + PANELS of 6 X 10 & 6 X 14 ARE IN STOCK 800-688-SWAN (7926) COMPARE AND SAVE ON WE SHIP COAST TO COAST www.swanfence.com 600 W. Manville St., Compton, CA 90220 A ugust 1986 co ver A ugust 1991 co ver