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Drought and electric fence
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<blockquote data-quote="Dusty Britches" data-source="post: 1771851" data-attributes="member: 1900"><p>I wished I had seen this when you originally posted it, MM. I was having the same problem and my fence charger normally would knock you off your feet.</p><p></p><p>With the drought, the ground was not strong enough to complete the connection for a shock. So I read the Gallagher manual. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Run your ground wire from the charger to the rods. And from the charger to the fence as the bottom strand at 16-18". Run the hot strand at 24-28" inches. Connect the bottom strand directly to every metal post you can. I already had 2 strands connected to each other so I only had to disconnect the bottom one and at each end, it T'd into a barb wire fence, which I tied into. Shazam! That lit everything up! Now, every time the calves tried to walk through the fence they would hit both the ground and hot at the same time and it would create a great shock. I switched all of my electric fences over to this method. I can even run it off battery or A/C.</p><p></p><p>It gets dry every year and this new method will remove some worry for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dusty Britches, post: 1771851, member: 1900"] I wished I had seen this when you originally posted it, MM. I was having the same problem and my fence charger normally would knock you off your feet. With the drought, the ground was not strong enough to complete the connection for a shock. So I read the Gallagher manual. :) Run your ground wire from the charger to the rods. And from the charger to the fence as the bottom strand at 16-18". Run the hot strand at 24-28" inches. Connect the bottom strand directly to every metal post you can. I already had 2 strands connected to each other so I only had to disconnect the bottom one and at each end, it T'd into a barb wire fence, which I tied into. Shazam! That lit everything up! Now, every time the calves tried to walk through the fence they would hit both the ground and hot at the same time and it would create a great shock. I switched all of my electric fences over to this method. I can even run it off battery or A/C. It gets dry every year and this new method will remove some worry for me. [/QUOTE]
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