Electric Fencing: has anyone used wire.

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Has anyone here used wire for electric fencing? Could you let me know your experiences and comments. I use tape and rope depending on the requirements of horses using the paddocks and fields. Someone has suggested I use wire (as it won't weather and break) but I am not entirely sure that would be at all safe. Just wondering what you guys think.
 
I have used high tensile wire for my poultry pen (which is a large pen so large runs of wire). IME it was a biatch to put up although it would probably be easier in longer runs with correct equipment. It is horrendous to tension and stretches like you wouldn't believe so constantly needing to re tension. I recently put up a fence to split the footpath from the horses, used to strands of HT wire along with barbed and one of the HT wires was snapped by a walker within 2 days.

I use rope for the horse paddocks and will use that in the new poultry pen that is going up rather than the HT stuff (despite having shed loads of the stuff left over). I don't think you can beat it for strength, ease of installing and conductivity.
 
are we talking steel wire? or just polywire, as in, thin rope? If the latter, I use it on the bottom strands of my electric fencing, it carries better zap, it's easier to put up and tension and is generally more lasting.
 
We use a mixture of wire and tape. The main paddocks are seperated by wire (we are in a huge field that is split in to two) so our herd of 5 are seperated from the other herd of 3. Then the bottom strip on the exit section is wire, the top is tape. We then have tape around the perimiter of our field and to section our Summer bit off
 
I use wire. It's aluminium wire made for electric fencing. It's better than tape, easier to use and join, lasts longer, conducts electricity further. I'm not 100% wire yet but will be one day, as I'm changing out the tape and chord when it short circuits and fails.

I'm leaving the old tape in place so they can see it though.
 
I used to keep my boys on a working farm - they used electric wire and I didn't have a problem with it neither did the horses. Gave one hell of a zap though!!
 
We use wire. It's better than tape doesn't rot or breakdown the current.
The horses know it's there and after one zap they keep away
from it.
You need to use proper tensioners and also insulaters on the posts so it doesn't earth.
 
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