electric fencing posts and frozen ground - hoping for a miracle?

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im moving yards on christmas day (only dayi can garentee off :o) We are hacking Taz and Rio and Missy is coming down a few days later in a friends box (i think, i dont know its not my pony to arrange transport for so i dont know)

Taz and Rio's fields are next to each other - Rio's is 4'6ft post and rail (4 bars) and the rest of taz's field that isnt rios fence is posts with electric fencing

Rio is aways from all of the mares who are about 1500metres away behind a hedge. Taz is directly next to him and then there is 600 metres before any other horses. Rio also has a separate acess point to his field so he doesnt go along the track all the other horses do.

the owner of the yard is quite rightly a bit.. well i wouldnt say nervous but she knows if something goes wrong involving a stallion its very likely to go very wrong and we dont want to make any of her liveries feel uncomfortable with him around so i am fencing with 5 ft electric on the inside of his field but with the ground so frozen i cant see this happening any time soon :o so does anyone know of anyway i can get the posts in? or am i just going to have to leave him stabled until the ground defrosts enough to get posts in? we have a school so i can exercise him and it has 6'ft post and rail so i can loose school and no one else actually uses it at all so i wouldnt be in the way of anyone other than myself :o he doesnt want to go out anyway but i want him turned out although he is never on his own when he is stabled so i wouldnt have that problem

so any ideas? how will i get these posts in? also i think Missy is going in the field with taz so there will be a mare next to him but only until feb as then she will go to the other side so she doesnt come into season near him :o
 
Dip the post stake in a tub of boiling water. I hop up and down fast and manage to get most in :D

Is the fence electric at all? We have a run of electric on top of rails and long insulators on inside too. Nice failsafe (normally for idiots walking horses past to stop them geting too close, even if they shouldn't be there ;) )

Oh and don't let the electric touch the ground when on... I've been in the middle of a chicken enclosure and been shocked on frozen ground, not fun as no-where to avoid the shock!
 
there is a mains electric thing we are attaching it too so it will be electrified he is being fenced about 3 metres from the fence that joins his and Taz's field as Missy is a bit of a pain at times although its taz who takes most interest in him :o and this morning the pony at our current yard trashed the electric fencing and there was no way it was going in!!
 
StormyMoments said:
there is a mains electric thing we are attaching it too so it will be electrified he is being fenced about 3 metres from the fence that joins his and Taz's field as Missy is a bit of a pain at times although its taz who takes most interest in him :o and this morning the pony at our current yard trashed the electric fencing and there was no way it was going in!!
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Sorry I meant the post and rail. We have an inner fence like you've mentioned and then electric running along the post and rail by insulators in addition.
 
yeah i think it does - we have quite thick rope running along the top of our current fields but i fence away as that stuff wouldnt break if they got caught in it, they would just pull the fence with them :( so they dont go near it... will look at the thinner stuff though :)
 
Wouldn't worry to much. The thaw is on the way along with plenty of rain.
May get The odd night -1 or 2 but nothing like we've had recently, otherwise plus temps into the new year from tomorrow.
 
i am fencing with 5 ft electric on the inside of his field but with the ground so frozen i cant see this happening any time soon so does anyone know of anyway i can get the posts in?

Take a stake down to your local metal work shop/steel fabricators, smile sweetly, and ask if they have a piece of scrap steel rod about 12 inches long about the same diameter. Smile sweetly again, and ask if someone can kindly grind a blunt point on it for you. If you have a nice smile (and I'm sure you have), they won't charge you a penny as it is a two minute job.

Use your spike and a hammer to drive a hole where you want each stake. Take it gently and keep pulling the spike out so it doesn't get stuck. Put your electric fence posts in the holes. Once you've cracked through the ice (an inch or two?) on the surface, your posts should go in quite easily.
 
I regulary used to reposition, secure mine and have never had a problem with frozen ground, if anything I found it made them feel very secre. We had more issues when it was very wet and windy as the posts used to work loose in the wet mushy ground.
 
My post (above) was made in consideration of conditions here in the Highlands!

15 below is not unusual and they've had 25 below a bit further north (but not this winter -- yet!:eek:).
 
awkwardsitu said:
the ground is mud - you will have no problem.
and the school gets used by others...be warned!
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Now, this is just rude. Be warned? Lovely to know how welcome she ISN'T by the sounds of it.......

Ugh I take it back, what I said on the other thread. It seems there is bad feeling....
 
Just seen above post from my phone.

It was meant to say - be warned there are holes in school.

Was at yard but left as was worried about injury from them when juming or wet weather which exposes them.

Hope that clarifies.
 
Really.....? Your post doesn't read like that at all. The exclamation mark after the word warned suggests you were aware your sentence had finished...... Back tracking?
 
awkwardsitu said:
posts often fail to fully appear from phones

OP please be aware there are holes in school, hence I went. Be careful when schooling.
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Do they, I have never had that problem and I post almost exclusively from my phone.

Funny you resurrected the post which dates back several weeks as well. And you are a new user. How strange.
 
awkwardsitu said:
posts often fail to fully appear from phones
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Not that I've ever noticed :confused: Posting too early yes, but not missing out chunks of text whilst leaving punctuation in place.

'Often' is also quite a deduction considering you've made all of 4 posts on this forum since joining today. Unless of course it's only your username that's new.
 
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