Cuttin_up
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Like a lot of other folks on here we are having a hot dry summer which I'm sure is part of my fencing problem I'm having. I've got a polywire fence that I'm using as interior fencing to divide out pasture. It's a 3 wire fence with the middle wire being my ground wire. The charge is running anywhere between 6700 to 7000 volts. My ground rod is set in the pond. My problem I'm having is some cattle are slipping thru. My first assumption is my ground because I feel 6700 volts is plenty hot enough. How do you test your ground? I put my tester on the ground wire and I'm getting no reading, which tells me it is OK. This is the only way I know to test it. Should I make my middle wire hot and add 2 ground wires after my 1st and 3rd wire? That to me seems like over kill. Any thought/suggestions/recommendations as to where my problems could be? I know there are work arounds for you folks who have to deal with grounding problems everyday.