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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1045586" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>My expertise is primarily as a user, not a fencer (partner does it), so I'm not really qualified to "write the book". We do charge all two, three, four or five wires on the electric-only fences with spaced posts. The others are standard post and batten permanent "conventional" fences with a couple of wires electric - in many cases we've added insulators to an existing fence and pulled a middle wire's staples out to use that one, or in other cases just added a whole new wire to the existing fence. When there's stock on both sides, the first option is better, so all of them can benefit from the experience of touching the hot wire if they try and push through or over. </p><p></p><p>You must have good earthing at the energizer end. We have at least six earth rods at a measured distance from each other in clay soils with about 70 inches of rain each year (in really dry conditions you have to work better at earthing, I understand). As long as your power is adequate, a five-wire fence will stop most animals - I'd not like to say all, since there's always the possible weirdo animal or incident. The only places I've had cattle get through our fences have been where there was a dip in the ground under a two or three-wire fence and a youngster goes for the gap. They usually get a zap to the back and won't go back through again.</p><p></p><p>I watched a R2 heifer a couple of days ago pushing over an old barbed top wire into the bush. The replacement for that fence will definitely have hot wires on top and half-way down, to stop them wrecking the new fence by browsing the tasty forest on the other side.</p><p></p><p>The down-side with electrics is that if your power is too low or goes off and your animals are "adventurous" they'll push through them pretty easily. My herd is stable and self-replacing, so by now I've eliminated the families likely to try things on when the power is off. There's one two-wire fence around a tree here which has never been electrified and still no animal has tried to go through it, so they're definitely trainable in good fence behavior!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1045586, member: 5956"] My expertise is primarily as a user, not a fencer (partner does it), so I'm not really qualified to "write the book". We do charge all two, three, four or five wires on the electric-only fences with spaced posts. The others are standard post and batten permanent "conventional" fences with a couple of wires electric - in many cases we've added insulators to an existing fence and pulled a middle wire's staples out to use that one, or in other cases just added a whole new wire to the existing fence. When there's stock on both sides, the first option is better, so all of them can benefit from the experience of touching the hot wire if they try and push through or over. You must have good earthing at the energizer end. We have at least six earth rods at a measured distance from each other in clay soils with about 70 inches of rain each year (in really dry conditions you have to work better at earthing, I understand). As long as your power is adequate, a five-wire fence will stop most animals - I'd not like to say all, since there's always the possible weirdo animal or incident. The only places I've had cattle get through our fences have been where there was a dip in the ground under a two or three-wire fence and a youngster goes for the gap. They usually get a zap to the back and won't go back through again. I watched a R2 heifer a couple of days ago pushing over an old barbed top wire into the bush. The replacement for that fence will definitely have hot wires on top and half-way down, to stop them wrecking the new fence by browsing the tasty forest on the other side. The down-side with electrics is that if your power is too low or goes off and your animals are "adventurous" they'll push through them pretty easily. My herd is stable and self-replacing, so by now I've eliminated the families likely to try things on when the power is off. There's one two-wire fence around a tree here which has never been electrified and still no animal has tried to go through it, so they're definitely trainable in good fence behavior! [/QUOTE]
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