He worked as an arranger for Sydney music publisher W.H. Palings. They were usually on wooden stumps with wooden vertical palings between the stumps. There were no fence palings or posts in Kiandra in 1861. The palings and blackwood logs were transported out by rail. Clouts are also used in timber fence palings. H3 is the standard house timber and this grade is used for fence palings. The plates soon disappeared, but the original palings still remain in good condition. Timber was exported from the area for firewood, house building and fence palings. A grave with palings around in very shaky condition - no mark. Bill used local wood to build the hut and hand split the palings. Blackwood for furniture and palings, cut from the surrounding forests, was freighted to Melbourne. He ordered that the entire estate be fenced and palings be placed around individual trees. Hardwood split slab palings have been replaced or oversheeted with corrugated iron to the west. Palings were used for weatherboards, garden fences and roof shingling.