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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1785795" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Don't know if you experience this issue where you are or not, but realize that <strong>if you have snow pack, the animals don't ground very well through that at all...</strong> even if you have an excellent ground system on your charger. Great grounding of the system is the only solution to try to overcome that problem, but great grounding will NOT solve it. You just have to recognize that as an issue, and work around it by not feeding/crowding the animals onto the electric fencing. Feed them away from it as much as you can, and keep them fed well, so they're not tempted to go out. Not much more you can do, IMO. I've got all new, 100% fully fiberglass post 3 wire HT perimeter fencing that's 4' high, buried under snow banks... cattle can walk right out over the fence on top of the banks, literally. I guess I could stick some "temporary" posts into the snow banks and string another wire up above what's already there... but so far instead, I just moved where I feed them to another area about 1/8th mile away from those spots, and they pretty much stay wherever the feed is put.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1785795, member: 39018"] Don't know if you experience this issue where you are or not, but realize that [B]if you have snow pack, the animals don't ground very well through that at all...[/B] even if you have an excellent ground system on your charger. Great grounding of the system is the only solution to try to overcome that problem, but great grounding will NOT solve it. You just have to recognize that as an issue, and work around it by not feeding/crowding the animals onto the electric fencing. Feed them away from it as much as you can, and keep them fed well, so they're not tempted to go out. Not much more you can do, IMO. I've got all new, 100% fully fiberglass post 3 wire HT perimeter fencing that's 4' high, buried under snow banks... cattle can walk right out over the fence on top of the banks, literally. I guess I could stick some "temporary" posts into the snow banks and string another wire up above what's already there... but so far instead, I just moved where I feed them to another area about 1/8th mile away from those spots, and they pretty much stay wherever the feed is put. [/QUOTE]
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