Electric fencing

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Views and experiences?

Personally am very wary of the stuff but then again farmers have a reputation of just shoving the bare end of the wires into a socket and hocking it up mains style
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Shocking! (sorry couldn't help it
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I love it
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I use it to subdivide paddocks and it is useful for fencing off areas to be weedkilled or fertilized. I didn't find the car battery powered energiser very effective so now have a mains powered one.
 
I think it's brilliant. I've been using it now for about 20 years. When we first fenced our field it last 6 months before all the posts were pushed and loose. We then put tape on the top and have only had to replace when the post itself rotted. My mare that was brought up with electric goes nowhere near fences which is great when she is in other people's fields. I can see nothing against it at all unless it is used when switched off and the horse isn't used to electric because then they can just go through it and it is very tough. It is also great for doing temporary fields for the summer when trying to restrict, or when out and about and just want an area around a horse box. If you touch it yourself you will find it doesn't actually hurt, just feels horrible. Other horses I have had who aren't used to it have been very quick to catch on and aren't hysterical about it, so it obviously doesn't upset them that much. Go on touch some I dare you!!

Best to buy good insulators for the posts though because tape will wear out in the wind, or buy the rope instead which is better in windy environments.

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Its a life saver for me but it has to used correctly to be safe. I have a sweet itch cob who would rip himself to pieces on anything solid so have to fence evrything off plus I have lots of fatties that need restricting in summer..
 
I use the wide green tape, powered off the mains, and it is brilliant. It is unobtrusive, hard wearing, doesnt flap about in the wind. The horses now cant rub on fences, or eat them, we have no rug rips, and it is so easy to strip graze, safe in the knowledge they wont try to break through, when they think they are fading away and you think they are fit to pop!
 
I have mine wired up to a lorry battery.... it nearly caused a heart attack when i touched it accidentally
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lol probably could use the stuff here as defib, when I say mains it really is bare wire in socket, no adapter whatsoever My ponio has two very small burn mark stripes on her bum from before I got her and I get very upset every time I see them
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. Fencing should NEVER EVER do that even mains stuff. Guess that's why am sensitive about it now. Thankfully horses have an adapter and tape albeit still very pokey and is checked with a multimeter every few days to check it's OK.

Very useful stuff really though. Spoke to the neighbour today and apparently the escape incident happened the night she happened to turn it off (their fence goes around our field as their sheep are in there). doh must remember to communicate with neighbour.
 
Always thought it was great until last night, very nearly electricuted myself, whoops, saw some bare wires and decided to have a fiddle, forgot the very minor detail of turning it off first.
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Reminds of of when I bought a fence unit by mail order - the pillocks sent it with charged batteries as I found out when I unpacked it. Or maybe I'm the pillock - but it never occurred to me that it would be sent in fully operational order. Wonder if it was legal to send it this way?

It gave me such a shock I'm psychologically damaged and can't touch a fence unit again - wonder if I can get compensation?
 
I can't bear electric fencing. I like solid fencing that isn't going anywhere. Although it is handy for emergency fencing but no way would I have a fields perimeter fenced with just electric.
 
I use electric fencing for subdividing my paddocks. The boundaries are fenced with post & rail and then the horses are individually fenced off using 40mm turbo tape and powered by a leisure battery. Electric fencings is fantastic stuff IMO but mine only gives enough of a zap to give the horses respect for the fencing.
 
I use it to section off the gate, as the gate leads you off onto a busy main road, Missy had no respect for the white tape ( battery was done at the time) When eventually got a battery, she tried chewing it while we where there setting it up, would not leave it alone , So hubbie though he would give her a nice surprise , so he stuck abit of grass onto it and turned it on, she decided to go for the grass and she got a lovely shock , she never did go near it again lol . She now respects the tape and its much safer for me and for them when Im taking them out of the field .

Also use it around the small paddock thats fenced off with proper fencing to stop her from chewing or bitting at the wood .
 
I use the tape and a battery powered small unit. I could not be without it as I strip graze my Welshie...otherwise he would have access to 2 and a half acres!
 
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