In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:52:35 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 28 Aug 2019 05:51:14 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

Ranchers and farmers know about these but for the benefit of city guys:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7394651/cows-JUMP-white-line-middle-road-cross-new-field.html
My parent's neighbors had a couple of the the actual steel
version. Horses walked
right over them if I remember correctly.

This is very helpful. I thought cattle guards were cattle in uniform
with a handgun or rifle standing next to a little guard house. (I guess
if they're cattle, the guard house would have to be bigger than normal.)

Actually, I already knew about cattle guards. There are a lot of them
in the USA, even in the east, and I've seen them and figured out what
they were, or someone told me first but I would have figured it out.

Step on a crack, break your mother's back.

We never actually said that when I was little, or ever. But I did hear
it when I was 30yo or more.