chaded
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I was helping my brother in law clean up the farm he bought next to me today and I came across an old fence charger. Anyone ever see one of these or know much about it? I’m not going to use it but it had me curious.
Old Fence Charger
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BFE
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I'll buy it from you! That's the brand to old feed mill in town used to sell. They were good.
BFE
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/234665098599
We used to have a few of these.
We used to have a few of these.
Dave
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My Dad had one of those years ago. I can attest to the fact that they were real hot.
gitnby
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still using one...they were good
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It is a high impedance charger versus the low impedance chargers you see today. They will light you up..lol, but are very easy to short out.
Also very easy to start fires.
Beat me to it. We burnt a pile of round bales with one of those. You could trace the fire right to it. I would put that POS in file 13.
Lucky_P
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Fires, indeed.
First time Dad and Uncle put up an electric fence, was with one like that. Being cheap, they didn't want to buy posts & insulators. Had a bunch of old galvanized water pipe lying around that they cut into 4 ft lengths and drove for posts, then cut strips out of of old tractor tire inner tube and wrapped around the tops of those pipes, then fastened the electric fence wire to the innertube with a piece of wire.
Didn't take long for those inner tube strips to start smoking! Evidently, inner tube rubber is not an effective insulator for an electric fence.
Deer running through the fence and knocking it down started more than one grass fire for us until the low-impedence chargers came on the scene.
First time Dad and Uncle put up an electric fence, was with one like that. Being cheap, they didn't want to buy posts & insulators. Had a bunch of old galvanized water pipe lying around that they cut into 4 ft lengths and drove for posts, then cut strips out of of old tractor tire inner tube and wrapped around the tops of those pipes, then fastened the electric fence wire to the innertube with a piece of wire.
Didn't take long for those inner tube strips to start smoking! Evidently, inner tube rubber is not an effective insulator for an electric fence.
Deer running through the fence and knocking it down started more than one grass fire for us until the low-impedence chargers came on the scene.
