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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1041979" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p><img src="http://diggersvalley.co.nz/p2013-3/last3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Most of the new fences are three-wire, since that keeps the calves and the cows where they should be. Calves sometimes push under two-wire, if there's a bit of ground deviation making the gap bigger.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://diggersvalley.co.nz/p2013-1/wiltedBFt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Around a protected tree, four posts, two wires. We had to fell the tree, since it was going to come down, so re-erected the protective fence to allow the stump to regrow. The tree only fell on the wires, so no big damage to clear up.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://diggersvalley.co.nz/efence.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>On the right a four-wire, partly in the hope of stopping the sheep. (Sheep still run through if they're determined enough - even with five wires sometimes.) On the left, a two-wire up the side of the drain. Sometimes the calves get in there, especially the little ones, but I turn off the power to the bottom wire so they just wander back through again. If they go under by accident while coming along the lane, and get a shock, they'll often go silly and not come back through and end up in the drain.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://diggersvalley.co.nz/elecfencebull.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>I'd just let this bull's mate through into the cows and he <em>really </em>wanted to go too. If the fence wasn't electric, I'm not sure he'd have stayed where I wanted him. The top wire's a bit slack, probably as a result of the drought (ground drying, posts moving a bit) and the heat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1041979, member: 5956"] [img]http://diggersvalley.co.nz/p2013-3/last3.jpg[/img] Most of the new fences are three-wire, since that keeps the calves and the cows where they should be. Calves sometimes push under two-wire, if there's a bit of ground deviation making the gap bigger. [img]http://diggersvalley.co.nz/p2013-1/wiltedBFt.jpg[/img] Around a protected tree, four posts, two wires. We had to fell the tree, since it was going to come down, so re-erected the protective fence to allow the stump to regrow. The tree only fell on the wires, so no big damage to clear up. [img]http://diggersvalley.co.nz/efence.jpg[/img] On the right a four-wire, partly in the hope of stopping the sheep. (Sheep still run through if they're determined enough - even with five wires sometimes.) On the left, a two-wire up the side of the drain. Sometimes the calves get in there, especially the little ones, but I turn off the power to the bottom wire so they just wander back through again. If they go under by accident while coming along the lane, and get a shock, they'll often go silly and not come back through and end up in the drain. [img]http://diggersvalley.co.nz/elecfencebull.jpg[/img] I'd just let this bull's mate through into the cows and he [i]really [/i]wanted to go too. If the fence wasn't electric, I'm not sure he'd have stayed where I wanted him. The top wire's a bit slack, probably as a result of the drought (ground drying, posts moving a bit) and the heat. [/QUOTE]
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