How is your electric net fencing working??

Had one. Never worked. Not worth the money.

 

Mine works great, even with the leaves. THough, I keep goats in mine. Check with me again after the first snow!!

 

Tried the net around a small yard, it didn't work as well as I thought it would. I now only use a souped up hot wire. Had a neighbor's bull touch it once, he refuses to go near it again. In order for the fence to work properly, the ground below the fence should be damp. I have a drip sprikler system that covers the outside of the fence. Now all I have to do is keep the weeds down. Make sure your hot wires are not touching any of your fencing. This happens from time to time. At night when the DW and I are sitting on the deck we can hear it snap. When this happens we look along the fence line and can see where it sparks.

 

I have never used the elec netting but have elec fence up and have found that a lot of the viability of the fence is in the Charger! The small $20 chargers work great on small animals as long as the lines are clear but when something grounds the fence(Grass, Weeds , Leaves Etc.) then you no longer have a charge going thru the the fence! The price goes up to about $40 small animals and will shock thru some small coverage and it goes up from there to the $100 for Large animals and will shock thru heavier coverage even small fingerling trees (they will cut thru small trees trying to grow into the fence) These are called weed burners or brush burners and Pulse @ 1 shock intervals in .5 to 1 second intervals 50 plus pulses per minute (Warning you touch one of these grounded out and you will definetly know it. You will probabely wet yourself )

Ernie


Also the ground on these fences very sofiscated you need shielded wire for connecting grounds and from charger to fence! Grounding should be 3 poles 6 foot deep (Copper) 10 feet apart! Start at the charger go 10 foot and put a stake, then 10 foot and 10 foot (You can go parallel with the fence this is the best way) You dont have to worry about wetting the area around the fence all the time! You gotta remember that most chargers are rated for 2 miles of fence Minumum and go up from there to 100 miles contunuous. The grounding diagrams are included with the fence and will show you how to set up grounds (Following this your fence should always work barring power outage)

 

Mine is working great right now. We have electric rope fencing for our horse pastures. When the ground is very dry, frozen, or covered in snow, the fence does not work well. Grounding the fence properly is very important.

 

I love my fences. I have the poultry netting and have only had a few foreseeable issues with them. I've been using them for years, so I know when there is going to be a problem and resolve it before it becomes an issue. I have only had one unforeseeable problem with them and that was a charger issue and not a fence issue per se. I lost sunlight for a week and a half a couple years ago because of poor weather and my batteries went flat in my solar charger. I didn't see that one coming! Not really the fence's fault, though. Just bad luck and worse weather. My pigs figured out the fences were down and made their grand escape. There's nothing quite like chasing two ornery 400 lb. sows through the neighborhood.