electric Fence

sam

We used 5 strands of B/W for the dairy herd feedlot strung on wooden posts, no insulators. Worked fine.
Lately I've been only using 3 strands of B/W for the heifer pasture line fence and 2 strands of good non barbed stuff on plastic posts for dividing it up. As long as you keep the stuff hot and ungrounded most animals will respect electric fence made of either wire.
Let it get grounded or let the animals go hungry and you're asking for trouble.

And even if you get a "weed burner" fencer make sure to walk the fence regularly with an old corn knife or something. Sometimes thistles or burdock won't burn off.

For feed I use a 110v charger, 2-8 foot copper clad ground rods. Feeds trhough conduit under my alley to a single strand of smooth wire on top of 4 plank wood fence around the weaning pens, bull lots, etc. This then feeds a single strand on top of a woven wire fence for 2000 feet. Then it drops into a single wire electric (smooth 14 ga) on 6' steel post for 900 feet. Then it picks up accross the top of 4 wire barb wire cross fence with a single strand smooth on top. Then it grids into a T shape splitting a 75 acre field into 3 paddocks. Left top of the T dog legs for another 800 feet to a dead end in a porcelon insulator as does the othet top of the T. The first dead head becomes the feed to the line fence when I use it. Gates have 1 inch conduit under them, #4 copper with anti oxident paste and heat shrink tape on the connections. Gates are back fed so they arent hot when open. Voltage at the charger is 16,400, just over 14,000 at the end of the run.

My normal stocking is 70 head on 20 acres for two weeks, then rotate. At least 2 paddocks get cut for 1-2 cuttings of hay. Grazing for me runs March 15-Jan 15 if no snow.

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Dave

There is definitely some sniffing/snorting going on around here.

Allan

Dave

Dave

Tend to nature's calling. :>)

Allan

Dave

Or should I just run the plain old bared wire around the whole shoot'n mactch

I run one strand of barbed wire around the whole shootin' match about belt high using wood posts only on the corners and small steel posts about every twenty five steps or so.

I use glass insulators tied out at the corners and whatever I can buy for the small steel posts; usually just plastic insulators.

High human traffic areas need an insulated "hook" so that you can open and close this "gate" without getting shocked yourself. All it is, is a spring loaded "handle" that you hook on and off to the hot wire.

Don't use that puny drug store wire; cattle can't see the stuff if they happen to get spooked and they'll run right thru it before they realize they are on it.

Allan

Dave

But, did you notice how the critters were always listening to the wire?

Whoooie! That one made my decade! :>)

Allan

Kinda lost my cool there. But Bull manure is just that. :>(

Allan

That's pretty much crap top to bottom.

Allan

Allan

I know I'm probably gonna regret asking this, but what else would you use if not barbed wire?

Allan

Do they make electric fence wire without barbs??

I doh no
Bill

Allan

I know I come off that way.

But, I promise ya one thing, I never, ever post something unless I'm about 99% sure I'm right.

And, I call BS when I see/hear it.

Allan

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That yuppie stuff isn't worth a damn. I'll stay with the barbed wire.

Allan