Electric Fences

[sawguy21]

We are over run with the beggars too. The yuppie acreage owners howl about hunting and killing Bambi until they nail one with the beemer. We are now seeing mountain lions as they are following the deer along the river valleys from the mountains.

[SwampDonkey]

There was an apple orchard here that put up 10 foot high page wire to keep deer out. That was after they shot about 6 deer I think. They were eating the apple flower buds. I don't think they electrified the fence either. It cost a fortune and I think they got assistance from government to save their orchard.

[DR Buck]

Went to a VA dept of Ag display a few years ago.  The had a beautiful vegetable garden growing right in the middle of the woods with no fence.   When I ask how they kept the deer out, they showed me their solution. 

4 foot T post with an old nylon stocking hanging on it with a bar of Irish Spring soap in them.  They were spaced about every 10 feet around the garden display.

[Roxie]

DR_BUCK....I heard on the news a week or so ago that your county was named the county with the cleanest air in the country.     Must be a nice place to live! 

[SwampDonkey]

Dr_Buck,

My father did that with his pear trees and the deer kept on nibling the buds.  >:(

[Faron]

We use electric fences to contain our  cattle, but the deer just hop over and come and go as they please.  Occasionally they get messed up and tear one down, especially one that hasn't been up long. 
Twenty years or so ago, during a busy planting season, we had a bull trying to get into a feeder cattle pen.  My brother hung a weed chopper in a little-used shed on my barn, and just hung the wire up the quickest way he could to get power out to the fence.  A few mornings later, a storm came up as I was doing my morning feeding.  I ducked into the north end of the shed, and walked to the south end to watch the storm. After a while the door blew open on the other end, and I started back to close it.  Bam!  I was on my knees wondering just what the heck had happened!  For just a little while, I was utterly convinced I had been hit by lightning.  It was odd, though, because I was pretty sure I was still alive, but I heard no thunder, and if I was alive, I thought I should hear something!  Finally, I looked up, and there was that DanG wire.   :  It had caught me just under my cap bill, and gave me a really good whack.  I found a proper route for it real quick. :D

[pigman]

Faron,
Those weed choppers are extremely dangerous. My Brother killed a 1600lb Charoiais cow with one of those things. They wood constantly short out on things and build up amps trying to burn them off and get real dangerous.
Bob- kin to a killer

[Faron]

Bob, Yes, and I have seen more than one fire started by them.  These new low impedence (or is it high impedence, I forget) chargers are far  superior to anything in the past.  They sure hurt if you accidentially get into one, though.

[Roxie]

On the farm I grew up on, we had a pool that was sectioned off from the cow pasture by an electric fence.  Teenage boys used to slip down to the pool for a midnight skinny dip when it was really hot.  One night my girl friend and I decided to sneek down and steal their clothes.  In order not to be noticed we came from the west, and had to jump over the fence which was downhill from our launch point.  I cleared it easily, but my friend slipped in the WET grass and sat on the electric barbed wire fence.   :D  Her shorts were stuck to it, and you never heard so much squalling in your life! 
This is my Dad after the calamity was under control......

[Bro. Noble]

I hate electric fences.  Have ever since I crossed one and overestimated the length of my legs >:( :

[chet]

 :D  :D  Yer supposed ta stand on yer tippy toes when strattlin' dem things.

[Faron]

After a night of frog hunting,  my high school buddy underestimated the  length of his legs as well.  We were, naturally, pretty wet, and being dark, we could see the sparks jumping down his legs every time that thing hit. :D :D :D  All he could manage for several seconds was to jump in the air, but every time he came right back down on the fence.  Finally he managed to fall over, and get loose.  Since he was our good friend, my brother and I helped him by getting out of the way and laughing. ;D
Our farm was pretty close to town when we were kids, so our friends would sometimes come out and tag along while we did our chores.  We had a couple of air rifles with metal frames and cocking levers with wooden stocks.  We checked fences with them by holding the stock and shorting the fence to a post.  Invariably our friend would think that was pretty neat, and want to try it.  They almost always grabbed the cocking lever and...... ;D :D 8) 8)  Wasn't very nice, was it?

[Ianab]

If you watch farm dogs in NZ they always run around with their tails held low to the ground.... :D

Watching the young ones learn the reason for doing this is often amusing, although you do feel sorry for them  :D

One of our dogs managed to touch a live wire over a drinking trough with her ears while getting a drink... direct path through the ears and out the tounge  . After she came back down to earth the look she gave us.... "but I wasn't doing anything wrong"   

Our fence energiser was one of the late model Gallager ones, digital readouts, remote controls and LOT of power. If it was driving into a short circuit someplace out on the farm you could hear the wires vibrate on each pulse. It sure improved the standard of my fence repairing tho, no place for sloppy twisted together connection. If you didn't have a good clamped joins on the main feeds it would just arc and burn through the wire in a few weeks.

Ian

[Corley5]

I fenced my punkin patch with two strands of white fence ribbon.  One strand at 32" and one at 48".  I didn't think it would stop them and was setup to put another strand at 16" and one at 64" but I never had another problem 8)  I still can't hardly believe it worked but my fence supplier said that the white tape fluttering in the breeze is just as good a deterent as the current in it.  This was a 1 acre patch of ground.  A 10 acre woodlot would be a different story