Connecting mains electric fence to earth stake?

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I have set up some temporary electric fencing near my stables, and bought a small mains unit. The fence is all set up, I'm very proud of what a smart job OH and I did :p, I've bought the mains lead-out cable so that I can run it between the unit in my tack room and the start of the fence. However, there is a ridiculously short length of earth cable, it will barely make it past the concrete apron outside my tackroom, so no way I can use it to connect to the earth stake. Can you buy an extension for the earth wire? Can/should it be underground, or can it lay overground? Will it matter if it runs under the area where I park my landrover/trailer, and therefore will be driven over once in a while? Is the easiest way to do it to splice the existing wire in the middle (so I keep the crocodile clip at one end and the little round connector at the other)?

I have a battery unit that's currently connected, but that needs to go back down to my main field soon as my horses are now leaning on the fence, grrr..
 
No that's the problem, the fencer has to stay in the tackroom as it's a mains one, so not waterproof. The earth cable is far far too short to reach any area with enough soil to put the earth stake in, so I'm going to need an extension.

(If I confused the issue by mentioning I had connected a battery energiser, that's only temporary as I need to put that back down to my main field (half a mile away from this one).
 
you nead to buy a length of lead out cable, attach to enegizer and run out to the earth stake. ideally attach cable to building/or sink underground (though you really should push cable through pipe of some sort (blue water pipe is ideal) to give added protection.
 
yes you should be able to. my earth stake is 10 metres from my mains enegizer and is liked up with lead out cable. make sure you have good wire connection to enegizer and earth stake. basically you just need something safe to carry the current.
 
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