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Electric fence is still the way to go. It's pretty easy. Go to American Livestock Supply on line or Tractor supply. They have the parts. You need the machine, electric poly wire and the plastic guides you nail to wood to guide the electric wire thru, comes with the nails. From HD or Lowe's, you need about 25 feet of real thick galvanized "wire", thicker than a toothpick, and 3- 8 foot metal rods, like rebar, and 3 clamps
Have hubby hammer in the rods into the ground 8 feet apart, 3 of them in a line. Leave about 8 inches above the ground. That's it for him. Now you. Hang the machine in a waterproof box or something. I nail the machine to the side of a shed near an outlet. Connect the thick wire, it will go from a wing nut on the machine, to each rod, and secured with the clamps holding it against each rod. Done with that. That's your ground,
Now put your plastic guides up. Should nail on posts or something, I've even run it around the windows. Run poly wire thru the guides and secure on the machine with the wingnut for it. The wire does not have to return to the machine, you can just end it. Turn it on. The meter on the machine should tell you if it's working well. The shock wire should not touch anything but the plastic guides.
If something touches the wire while being in contact while standing on the ground, the animal completes the circuit: electric from the machine goes thru the wire, goes thru the animal, goes into the ground, picked up by the rods, and back to the machine.
If you can hammer nails, use a wrench to tighten clamps, and cut a wire, you can do this without hubby, after he hammers the rods in (need a ladder). I've done this 3 times in 20 years. If you want, I can go to a website and put a list together of what you need. If it can deter cows and horses and dogs, it will certainly deter a racoon.
Electric fence is still the way to go. It's pretty easy. Go to American Livestock Supply on line or Tractor supply. They have the parts. You need the machine, electric poly wire and the plastic guides you nail to wood to guide the electric wire thru, comes with the nails. From HD or Lowe's, you need about 25 feet of real thick galvanized "wire", thicker than a toothpick, and 3- 8 foot metal rods, like rebar, and 3 clamps
Have hubby hammer in the rods into the ground 8 feet apart, 3 of them in a line. Leave about 8 inches above the ground. That's it for him. Now you. Hang the machine in a waterproof box or something. I nail the machine to the side of a shed near an outlet. Connect the thick wire, it will go from a wing nut on the machine, to each rod, and secured with the clamps holding it against each rod. Done with that. That's your ground,
Now put your plastic guides up. Should nail on posts or something, I've even run it around the windows. Run poly wire thru the guides and secure on the machine with the wingnut for it. The wire does not have to return to the machine, you can just end it. Turn it on. The meter on the machine should tell you if it's working well. The shock wire should not touch anything but the plastic guides.
If something touches the wire while being in contact while standing on the ground, the animal completes the circuit: electric from the machine goes thru the wire, goes thru the animal, goes into the ground, picked up by the rods, and back to the machine.
If you can hammer nails, use a wrench to tighten clamps, and cut a wire, you can do this without hubby, after he hammers the rods in (need a ladder). I've done this 3 times in 20 years. If you want, I can go to a website and put a list together of what you need. If it can deter cows and horses and dogs, it will certainly deter a racoon.
