Re: Electric Fencing information needed

["Tina Rushing" <tinarushing@coastside.net>]

I use a solar charger.  The solar charger does not produce as much ZAP as a
direct current charger but my horse respects it.  It is not as the sole
means of restraint.  I use it to protect the expensive lumber and keep my
beast away from tasty pedestrian fingers.  It's foggy here so there I have
to turn the charger off during sunless spells to let the battery charge up
(don't tell my horse, she doesn't seem to know that it is "off").

Insulators:  I like porcelain insulators and use porcelain "donuts" on wire
for corner strain insulators.  Plastic doesn't hold up.   Donuts and wire
are cheap.

Grounding:  in a dry climate you may not be able to get a good ground.  I
have my fencer grounded next to a creek, but in the summer it dries up and
the charge is noticeably reduced.  I am considering installing a second
ground rod to see if it will add some ZAP.  I'd like to hear privately from
people with experience.

Tina Rushing  tinarushing@coastside.net
El Granada, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: Maryanne Stroud Gabbani <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>; Equine-L <EQUINE-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2000 6:43 AM
Subject: RC: Electric Fencing information needed


>I recently started doing some research on electric fencing for friends here
>in Egypt. Wood is very expensive and hard to maintain. Pipe fences are also
>extremely expensive, although easier to maintain, making decent paddock
>sizes prohibitively expensive. I realise that may seem weird in a country
>that is 99% empty desert, but most of that is either inaccessible, has no
>water, or is owned by either the army or the antiquities department. We've
>been trying to figure out how we can fence in an acre or two (actually
>measured here in feddans, but close to the same size) without going into
the
>poorhouse. I've corresponded with Terry Wise of ElectroBraid, but do others
>of you use these materials and how do you like them? How do they hold up?
We
>have rotten electrical supply in the countryside so we would be looking at
>solar panels (LOTS of sun!) for power and probably local wood for posts to
>make life easy on carrying or shipping the fencing materials. Our horses,
>while being those wily high strung (?!) Arab types have so far shown
>themselves very adept at lifting pipe gates right off the hinges and doing
>other such creative acts to get out...not that they ever go very far. They
>are not the types to go crashing into walls of any kinds and are all raised
>with almost every variety of livestock underfoot, so this also isn't much
of
>a problem.
>
>All feedback most gratefully accepted.
>
>Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
>Cairo, Egypt
>maryanne@ratbusters.net
>www.ratbusters.net
>
>
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