Strip grazing - electric fencing tips and shortcuts?

[Lplates]

Hi, sorry if this is a dopey question, but I was wondering if anyone strip grazes with an electric fence and if so, if there are any tips to make it easier.
At the moment I have it in a rectangle attached to either side the field shelter at one end, but I am a newbie at this and having to move pretty much the whole thing every time I want a few more feet. I am sure that with time I will discover the shortcuts, but having never strip grazed before, I am on trial and error here.
Previously it was just a fenced field, but am worried about Cushings pony and laminitis.
I have got just the very basic fencing kit, e.g. battery, energiser, 10mm tape, 2 x gate handles, earth spike and posts, but wondering if there are any extras which would make life easier, e.g. tensioners, connectors etc.
thanks

 

[Tiddlypom]

Do you have the start of your run mounted on reels, which themselves are hooked on a termination post? If so, you can allow more tape out whenever you want to increase the grazing area.

Like these

http://www.rutland-electric-fencing...eDealersOnly=False&SiteID=2&SiteCategoryID=35

 

[WelshD]

I dont have the reels mentioned above but I hear they are very good. I strip graze in one of three ways

Make the fence line wavy or zigzagged - this allows me to move one post in and another one out to reveal fresh grass, this means I can reveal about twenty patches of fresh grass before moving the fence

Use excess tape and take up the slack on different posts, I know people say that this makes the fence less powerful but it works for me, that way I can let out extra tape and move the posts

The most sucessful way I have strip grazed though is this:

Make an outer rectangle of fence

string two lines of tape across inside one short side like this [I ] attach to the long sides with proper metal connectors and the line across will pick up the current, attach a 'supporting' post near the connectors to stop the across lines pulling in the perimeter lines

Then you literally slide those connectors along the long sides to reveal a fresh strip of grass as little or as much as needed, move those 'supporting' posts along with the lines, when you get to a post on the perimeter fence you remove that post, slide the connectors along then replace the post

(I hope that makes sense!)

 

[Marion]

We strip graze all year round, find it easy as we have grazing split into 3 narrowish long paddocks with a movable short electric fence. All electric fencing, all connected so run off one fencer by the gate, we just make sure the short fence touches the other fencing.

 

[BBP]

As above, I have whatever the back line of my fence is going to be, like a hedge for example, and then run two parallel fence-lines forwards from it. I then have a shorter piece of fence at the strip grazing end that I move each day and just make sure it's in contact with both the side fences so it is all connected when I turn the energiser on. I find it really simple that way. I'll then put another short tape across the back as time goes by to allow the back to recover. That way they can then start at the back moving forwards again next time.

 

[Lplates]

Thank you so much - all brilliant advice, am going to zigzag this week and planning on buying connectors so I can do the other method, which sounds so much easier than the stupid way I am doing it now, which is driving me batty.