That's interesting and gave me a thought. Once I did see a herd of maybe 30 cows in a 30 ish acre pasture and the grass was nibbled down almost to the dirt as was the grass on the other side of the hot wire about 3' out and then it was maybe 2' tall, clean line as if you cut it with a mower. There was 1 strand of hot wire and it was no more than 10 off the ground. Never saw anything like that but the cows respected it. I was totally amazed.
So a thought would be to have the ground on the top at about 3', or maybe 30 and have the hot down at at 15. It would be nose high for a calf (that wouldn't need a big whack during the dry summer months) and on a cow, it would get a leg whack when it was grazing and stepped too far into it to contact both wires....nothing says the top needs to be hot.
I don't remember the rule on cattle as far as which way they turn when getting smacked, like when you have a hot shot and are woking them.....I know in the face and they will back up and in the rump and they will leap forward, but forget the location of the line of demarcation. Anybody remember?
That would keep me from having to run 3 wires and also would be a lightening deterrent. Also, it would be a a lightening protector like running electrical power distribution lines with the ground above the hot wire and a ground under/running down every utility pole.
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