Post and Rail fencing with Electric???

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I have just had all my paddocks refenced with post and rail fencing but now want to protect it from the cheeky horses in it!! I am toying with the idea of putting a line of electric fence along the top or do i need to put one either side instead? It will just be a deterent for chewing and interaction between paddocks as I don't want to many social party events over the fence!! If anyone has had previous success with this please let me know.
Also I already have metal gates in place but want to continue the electric fence over these, hoew is this best done?? Sorry if I sound a numpty but have little experience of electric fencing!
 
You might like to take a look at one of the manufacturers websites, like Gallagher?We got lots of handy hints.
 
We got some little plastic clips that you attach to the fence posts, which you can put the tape into to run it round. You can get those big springs with hooks on that can go across a gate as well, but we never used these.
 
we have the red plastic bobbins on the top of each fence post and a line of polypropylene wire running along to top..... this has stopped them chewing it though they do occasionally go for the bottom rail.... if they are doing a lot in one area we just put a bit of wire up which deters them.

You can get 'stand off' insulators which will keep them further back off the fence but are sig more expensive.
 
Thanks, have bought lots of black insulators as they didn't have any double sided ones so am thinking just one line along the top should be ok? Just need to figure out the gateways really?
 
yup well we find one line along the top does the job :) been there 6 years so far.
we only have 2 slip rails.... never got round to purchasing a gate! and we just have a handle on the end which just hooks on to the last insulator on the run.

http://www.hotline-fencing.co.uk/ca...x?dpt_id=4c8f37d9-6414-43f2-89c2-d24b723bc23a

what you could really do with would be someone with plastic insulators so the gate would connect automatically and the wire stand up off the gate but I cant think of anyone who does one. All the above require opening separate to the gate below them which is a bit of a faff. All I would say is avoid the spring ones they loose their spring and have seen tails get caught.

do you have to run it over the gate? will the run not be complete otherwise?
 
I have bought a few bungee gates as it has to run over the gates to complete the circuit, we have a sort of an H shape to electrify with two metal gates and two sets of slip rails.
 
We have post and rail which has a thin piece of white tape along the top...downside is you can't lean on the fence!!! Also a piece along the 3rd (middle) rail to stop them rubbing on it. Also finds it helps to stop them getting close enough to kick or knock any rails out.
It stops at the gate but we have put a piece of white tape across the top and the horses haven't tested it so don't know it's not the same as whats on the fence!!!
 
you can get wire that you connect to the electric fencing spiral it down your wooden fence post dig a small channel out under your gate way spiral it back up the fence post the other side connect it to the electric fencing the other side of the gate and it carries the electric from one side of the gate to the other. hope this makes sense lol
 
I think its called conductor wire??

We have it at our yard its coated in black plastic you get a reel of it cut it to lenth strip a bit of the plastic off at the end so it wire touching the electric tape (same at both ends) and it carries it under ground so you dont have a break in the circuit
 
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That sounds like a good idea but do you not then have a problem with horses "chatting" over the gate? Is it easy enough to run the electric over the gate? Thankyou for all your tips!
 
hollyround said:
Thanks, have bought lots of black insulators as they didn't have any double sided ones so am thinking just one line along the top should be ok? Just need to figure out the gateways really?
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If you just want a compleat circuit after the gates then you just get some blue water pipe bury it under the gate and run a insulated wire to the next run of tape, you can have a tape gate as well if you want to keep them of the gates....
 
Just about to do same thing my question is - what is best on top (ok standing in to field) with stand off insulators - tape, rope or wire? Guy in shop tried to deter me from tape?
 
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