RE: [RC] fencing question- D battery chargers? - SHEILA A WALSH
Any electric paddock experts out there that can tell me where to buy a D battery charger to keep my horses off my trees? I have the posts in and the electric tape strung; now I just need to find a little battery operated fence charger that I can turn on, when I turn them out.
tia,
Sheila
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:08:04 -0500 To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx From: marv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] fencing question
At 10:19 PM 11/2/2009, vjhogen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need to get some opinions on fencing. We bought our house 4 yrs ago, it was fenced with 4 strand barb wire. We ran a two strand hot wire fence around to make two dry lot areas. This has worked fairly well, but I noticed last winter that the white tape was stretching and not holding a charge very well. We are ready to redo the fencing. I don't like the white tape, so I am ready to change materials.. My horse shoer was telling me about high tensile and he swears by it. What are peoples opinions of it. We are ripping out old barb wire fence lines and replacing those with whatever we go with. Our place is ten acres 9 of which is pasture. We currently have an 8 acre pasture and two seperate dry lots plus a large corral off of the barn with no climb fencing. The corral is in good shape, so it doesn't need any help. What kind of luck have people had with fencing options. I love the look of vinyl, but that isn't an option right now.. Our entire place is fenced in with barb wire, we have a gate on the drive way. Should we keep that the way it is, and just run new fencing lines where we want them inside?
Thanks, you guys are always full of good info..
We used hi-tensile for years and had a good number of cuts and two complete de-glovings which cost a lot of time and money. They both recovered completely much to the total surprise of the vet school.
Here we use the poly rope with thin wire running through it. We have the tape for the top mostly so the horses can see the perimeter but a few flaps in the wind annoyingly causes shorts in it. In order to keep it charged we have to run jumper wires from the next strand down to keep it hot. This can be time consuming.
We do occasionally have some escapes but it is because our horses are fence-wise (most of the time) so we don't do too much upkeep on it and they just worm out of it when it needs repair. Plus the deer hit it and tear a strand loose now and again but it is simple to fix.
Using it as an inner perimeter to your barb wire sounds like a plan. Tearing that stuff out can be nasty.
I have had barbed wire at a number of places in the past and only had one cut when the mares ran a new gelding into it. That cut was clean so I doubt any barbs came into contact with the horse.
Marv "Knowledge tells you whether the caterpillar is going to be a moth or a butterfly." Walker Horse Info & Training DVDs ~ http://MarvWalker.com
