Yessir it do. I figured it was worth a try. If no luck I'll be putting rods in for sure.Does the barbed wire fence have metal T-Posts?
Side note - I been getting feed from your buddy Butch the last couple months.
Yessir it do. I figured it was worth a try. If no luck I'll be putting rods in for sure.Does the barbed wire fence have metal T-Posts?
As Lucky_P said, the fence will act as good ground as long as the soil stays damp. It will not work so well when it gets dry.Yessir it do. I figured it was worth a try. If no luck I'll be putting rods in for sure.
Side note - I been getting feed from your buddy Butch the last couple months.
Use a posthole auger and bore the top 4 feet. Then you only have the drive the bottom 4. Add and mis well some sodium bentonite to the soil as you fill the part that you dug with the auger. That effectively gives you a ground rod the diameter of the auger in that top section.I've borrowed a Speedrite S-1000 to see if I like it.
I'm going to try grounding it to an existing barbed wire fence. Anyone do this with success?
It's rocky as ****. So hoping I don't have to drive ground rods. Probably will though.
Most have a plug for a small transformer to charge the internal battery when needed, just a small gel battery wired to a suitable plug would get you out of trouble if you got caught short in prolonged overcast weather.Like a marine battery?
I think most of those are made by the Kiwis.The folks down under, where Ken is located, make some darn good chargers. Stayfix used to have a 64-joule model I wanted. I believe Stafix was acquired by Speedrite and they discontinued the Stafix brand. Speedrite charges are very good too. I have a couple of their fence testers.
New Zeland is down under toI think most of those are made by the Kiwis.
Ken
That's a slick idea!Use a posthole auger and bore the top 4 feet. Then you only have the drive the bottom 4. Add and mis well some sodium bentonite to the soil as you fill the part that you dug with the auger. That effectively gives you a ground rod the diameter of the auger in that top section.
If you are lazy like me, you can make an extension out of heavy pipe and bore deeper.That's a slick idea!
Just across the ditch or Detch as the Kiwi's pronounce it from us.New Zeland is down under to