Palisade Palisade A palisade—sometimes called a stakewall or a paling—is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure or enclosure. Palisade derives from "pale", from the Latin word "", meaning stake, specifically a stake used to support a fence. A palisade gangs these side by side to create a fence entirely made of pales. Typical construction consisted of small or mid-sized tree trunks aligned vertically, with no free space in between. The trunks were sharpened or pointed at the top, and were driven into the ground and sometimes reinforced with additional
Fence Viewer portion of the fence must be made, repaired, or maintained by each party. Fence Viewers may also be asked to determine where a fence must be placed when a fence cannot be placed squarely on a property line. Three Fence Viewers are appointed by the selectmen each year. They must be qualified voters of the town and must be sworn into office. Fence Viewers examine fences and other boundaries within the town when requested to do so by the selectmen. For more than 100 years farmers across the state of Nebraska relied on fence viewers to play the role of