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just got first electric fence up and its working a treat but, what do people who get extreme winters or are on hills do during the darker wetter months, is it bring in every night, or leave out and if it is leave out, how does it fair?

we have the very strong posts with 20mm tape

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i find that the tape slackens off and i walk the fence everyday and tighten it but i have found that the rope does not flap about and is better.i have a mixture of both and also a mixture of poly stakes and wooden posts.
 
I find it is generally ok all through the winter, but after storms, I walk the fenceline and just refoot all posts, check for tree branches falling on it, etc.

I have more trouble with a very localised dapple grey storm, tbh, as she disconnects the battery.
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We just check it daily and as Mrs Mozart said, twist it around each loop and face every other post in the opposite direction. We only occasionally get the odd fence post let go of the tape after very strong winds.
 
alternate dierction of posts

loop tape round ever 5th or if windy more posts so if pulls out cant go streamig across field, though this does make retensioning more difficult.
 
I have changed from tape to rope. Our fields are on the side of a hill and very exposed and i found that the posts were being blown virtually flat in high winds when the ground was wet. Since changing to rope I have had no problems.
 
In good weather I check the posts about once a week and re insert them if loose. I do the same the day after after very windy weather. We have quite a long run and have put a wooden fence post about every 4 plastic stakes and put the plastic tensioners that hold the tape taught on the wooden post and find this works really well. I occasionally re tension the whole length of tape to keep it tight.
 
Ditto chanding from tape to rope.

Had way more experience with electric fencing than I'd ever like and I HATE tape with a passion, esp the 40mm stuff. Wide catches it like nothing on earth and you spend your entire time putting posts back in securely and re-doing the tape.

Get rope. Much easier. I use 6mm rope for the top strand (for visability) and electric twine for the bottm strand and electrify that one.

Other tips:

Bang in a couple of wooden fence posts at either end of a straight line to tension the wire. And in the corners. Makes like so much easier!

Your electrified strand should not be touching ANYTHING with any water content so that includes wood, grass, weeds, non-plastic ropes. Don't wrap it round trees or wooden posts, or let it touch the ground or weeds. It should ONLY be touching plastic.

I would only electify one line - which depends on whether your horses are more likely to go over or under. I do the bottom strand (the twine one, as it's got lots of wire filaments in it) as my pony likes to army crawl under.

If there is a break in the rope/tape, you need to reconnect it carefully and make the wire filaments from each end are well connected. Just a quick knot isn't enough.
 
We have 40mm tape and we live in the windiest place ever! It's survived two very harsh winters so far and all that happened was that the bottom row slackened off, but that was after a very heavy snowfall (the bottom row was totally submerged by snow!). It was sufficient to tighten it again once the snow had gone down a little.

The battery of our electric fence is powered by a small solar panel and, during storms or if it hails, we always remove it as we were told when we bought it that hailstorms can damage the solar panel.
 
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