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<blockquote data-quote="daggerduke" data-source="post: 1235276" data-attributes="member: 23443"><p>I know what you mean there lol! Let me tell you a story.</p><p></p><p>I helped my brother about 6 years ago set up a small fence around his back yard to keep the dog from jumping out, a boxer/pitbull mix. He had chain link already, but the dumb dog was still getting out. I told him we need to put a hot wire around this and train him to fence.</p><p></p><p>We ran a single strand of that rope type electric fence wire around the top rail of the chain link, through about 40 or so insulators. We used one of my good spare units that I had acquired (Gallagher M800). WAY bigger than what he needed, but the dog needed to learn the hard way lol. We installed 2 ground rods we figured it would be enough since it was a really small area of around 600sqft give or take.</p><p></p><p>After getting this all set up, it was time for the test. We didn't have a tester handy, so I told my brother to just put the back of his hand up to it. After some coaching, he finally did it, but he said he barely felt anything....hmmmm.</p><p></p><p>So went and grabbed a tester, tested the fence and got a reading of around 6kv, so we knew for sure the fencer/and fence should be good.</p><p></p><p>After about 20 minutes of bs and some frosty drinks between a small group of us, I leaned over and was resting my arm on the metal corner post of the chain link. And without realizing it, I moved just enough and bumped into that hot wire............SNAP! I wasn't thinking and didn't expect it lol</p><p></p><p>After all that, my brother asked me why I got shocked so hard and he barely felt it. Hmmm, thought about it and talked about it, and my cousin said, look at his boots. Looked down and my brother was wearing his army boots. They have a thick rubber soles on them. He wasn't getting grounded well enough and wasn't able feel the shock like I did. </p><p></p><p>I asked him, take your Damn boots off and touch that fence..........He said that sure as hell ain't gonna happen lol.</p><p></p><p>So I feel your pain brother lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daggerduke, post: 1235276, member: 23443"] I know what you mean there lol! Let me tell you a story. I helped my brother about 6 years ago set up a small fence around his back yard to keep the dog from jumping out, a boxer/pitbull mix. He had chain link already, but the dumb dog was still getting out. I told him we need to put a hot wire around this and train him to fence. We ran a single strand of that rope type electric fence wire around the top rail of the chain link, through about 40 or so insulators. We used one of my good spare units that I had acquired (Gallagher M800). WAY bigger than what he needed, but the dog needed to learn the hard way lol. We installed 2 ground rods we figured it would be enough since it was a really small area of around 600sqft give or take. After getting this all set up, it was time for the test. We didn't have a tester handy, so I told my brother to just put the back of his hand up to it. After some coaching, he finally did it, but he said he barely felt anything....hmmmm. So went and grabbed a tester, tested the fence and got a reading of around 6kv, so we knew for sure the fencer/and fence should be good. After about 20 minutes of bs and some frosty drinks between a small group of us, I leaned over and was resting my arm on the metal corner post of the chain link. And without realizing it, I moved just enough and bumped into that hot wire............SNAP! I wasn't thinking and didn't expect it lol After all that, my brother asked me why I got shocked so hard and he barely felt it. Hmmm, thought about it and talked about it, and my cousin said, look at his boots. Looked down and my brother was wearing his army boots. They have a thick rubber soles on them. He wasn't getting grounded well enough and wasn't able feel the shock like I did. I asked him, take your Damn boots off and touch that fence..........He said that sure as hell ain't gonna happen lol. So I feel your pain brother lol [/QUOTE]
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