Something else with a reason. These green fences are put up all over the place around here to protect hedges and bushes from the town's snowblowers. (It costs a fortune to spend winters up here LOL)
Farmer's walls are a different kind of fence and are ubiquitous throughout New Hampshire. Consensus is that these walls were built not as boundaries but to prevent sheep from wandering about. A good question is why these walls were built from rocks and not lumber as both are plentiful in the Granite State. Perhaps the Yankee desire for hard work and durability is the answer. By the way, it's actually been recorded that in the first half of the 19th century approximately 800,000 to 1 million sheep were being raised between New Hampshire and Vermont.
Farmer's walls are a different kind of fence and a... (show quote)
A useful way to use rocks cleared from their fields.