Thread: Electric fence question...No gate tapes

off topic but has anyone tried solar electric fence unit?

Originally Posted by 1976_michelle

off topic but has anyone tried solar electric fence unit?

For a long time.

We used to use the biggest Daken units they had, running km upon km of multistrand fencing.

Worked really well, just had to check the water periodically in the storage battery.
All the internal fencing on the property we managed used electric fencing, and as the cattle were rotationally grazed (ie. lots of small paddocks) there were lots of fences that I had to keep up with.

The smaller (eg. 2km units) used to use a ni-cad which worked fine.
We'd use them on creek/river crossings.

Horses get to know what a hot tape is really quickly, and all of ours have been that well behaved that we can just run a tape to cut a yard or paddock up and they assume it's live, they won't go and try it.

Running cattle, there was always at least one that would let you know when the fence was down, and apparently goats are worse.
A good goat fence energiser sends an irregular pulse as the buggers time it on a normal fence and know when to push through.

Lou, I forgot to mention that we like the really wide tape for horses.

They can see it

Gallagher Permanent Electric Fencing Insulators

Hi Lou,
I would not muck about with Ebay. Have a look at the above link you will find all the information you need. Go to a reputable rural supply company they will have all the range and information you need. The Gallager stuff is great. If you dont want your horses on barb wire, just run tape or plain wire around the inside connected on your posts. You can get these brackets which connect to wooden or steel posts that run about 8-10 inches inside the post the that the tape or wire passes through. If you check out their range you will wee the proper cable to run underground and the proper locking bolt to join your wires. Do it once with the good gear and you will have it for ever.

My 2 cents worth

Cheers

Originally Posted by Piddler

Gallagher Permanent Electric Fencing Insulators

Hi Lou,
I would not muck about with Ebay. Have a look at the above link you will find all the information you need. Go to a reputable rural supply company they will have all the range and information you need. The Gallager stuff is great. If you dont want your horses on barb wire, just run tape or plain wire around the inside connected on your posts. You can get these brackets which connect to wooden or steel posts that run about 8-10 inches inside the post the that the tape or wire passes through. If you check out their range you will wee the proper cable to run underground and the proper locking bolt to join your wires. Do it once with the good gear and you will have it for ever.

My 2 cents worth

Cheers

I agree.

In the past we mainly used Daken and a bit of Speedrite stuff, but Gallagher make really good gear too and Thunderbird is ok. Used some of their star picket caps, etc lately and it's been fine.

Originally Posted by dullbird

i still cant see it only using the red lines if your talking about using the black lines as well then that would make sense but using the red lines no I cant see it becasue paddock 1 is disconnected to from all other pqaddocks the large black square where the house is (house is small black square) has gates...so unless I actually tape the entire boundary fence I still dont see how its possible even with your drawing to explain sorry

Sorry Lou my mistake, thought you were doing the lot.

As for the lightning protection gizmo, might be of limited use for a small inductive belt to the fence but in the real world if your fence is hit by lightning nothing will save it and your energizer from a zillion volts. All that will be left is a black smear.

You'll find that animals can be pretty clever in checking out whether a fence is on or not. One of my sisters mares backs up to the tape and gently brushes it with her bum, no zap and sticks her head through into the hay shed.

If you can afford it use porcelain insulators, they're heaps better than plastic.

Deano

Originally Posted by dullbird

so I cant just run the electric tape thats going to go around the field through the garden hose like you have suggested?

I was thinking a bit of plastic poly pipe in a U shape in the ground then I could put 90 degree bends in as it comes out the ground so rain cant get in and run the tape through that ....im talking small diameter stuff is that the same or is the garden hose material better?

Sure you can, I use fencing wire with ag poly pipe for preference as tape has a higher resistance than fence wire and it is easier to attach whatever you run on both sides of the gateway.

I also run the cheap garden poly pipe and then bend the ends back on themselves leaving a hot wire tail to connections and if im feeling like doing it properly I tape the ends of the pipes shut.

I used to do it right with poly pipe and high volt insulated fence cable but got caught short adding a gate one day and just went with poly and fence wire since then.

I now have 15 or so gateways done like this both at home and on my other place with zero loss of voltage on my fences which all run at around 8 Kva in wet or dry weather much to the disgust of my sneaky sheep.

Remember that there are different qualities of electric tape and as a rule I dont use actual tape to run "Hot" because of the voltage drops.

Geeze I love my missus lol
She has piccies!