Roundpole fence

The roundpole fence is a wooden fence typical to the countryside in Sweden (in Swedish: gärdesgård, gärdsgård, gärsgård), Norway (in Norwegian: skigard), Finland (in Finnish: riukuaita, risuaita or pistoaita) and Estonia (in Estonian: roigasaed or teivasaed).

The fence requires an abundance of wood, which was never a problem in Scandinavia, as the trees generally came from the owners' own forests in the process of thinning them out.

The term ″roundpole fence" is somewhat misleading, as the rails between the pairs of uprights are usually split spruce logs.

For the diagonals, larger trees with a diameter up to 20 cm were split into four or eight rails of suitable dimensions.

Very young saplings were used to bind the rails to the uprights, the idea being to utilize trees of different ages.