Posted by dave2 on May 01, 2010 at 13:16:57 from (139.139.35.70):
I'm guilty of being lazy and cheap on my fences....
I have several small pastures with the biggest being 1/2 mile around the line with all having 3 strands (1" tape).
Chargers are Parmak 6v solar (1.4 joule) and the 12volt auto battery (2.7 joule).
I've got a bad habit of grounding them to a tpost or using the 12 inch or so spike that came with them.
Could use some new tape on some of them, but after reading some, I think the time/money would be better spent on grounding to make the fencers work better (and probably compensate for the cheaper tape I'm using now.
Most cost effective thing available for me is 1/2" galvanized pipe. Farthest distance from ground system would be 300 yds (if that makes any difference). Any ideas on how I could set up a ground that would take care of my needs and keep the cost/material down? Have to do this for 12 places. Couple of them have a 4ft piece of galvanized pipe in the ground and work pretty good but could be better.
Any tips would be great.
Dave
PS,
in reference to my post yesterday about the kid not getting shocked, had a visitor today that we took by the horses. It had rained and was sprinkling a little while we were there. Guy asked the stupid ???? "is the electric on" while standing by a pasture with several horses in it. Wife being quick to point out my fence building skills (or lack of) says "yea, but doesn't work very good if at all"
Guy grabbed ahold to step through and about sh!t his pants........Wife was embarrassed as heck and I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna have a stroke.........
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