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dustymom
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October 23, 2006, 02:24:50 PM |
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Obviously I have the wrong kind of electric movable fence - I have chicken fencing, but we were trying it before we moved on to the animals that really could use it to move around our "farm" - 6 acres. We bought poultry fencing - but to charge it with our solar charger or other - as far as we know, we have to add a new ground pole everytime - do you have to do that? Did we, once again, buy the wrong product? It seems such a pain to have ground poles everywhere in our yard. Great website, thanks! Marilyn
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paul wheaton
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western WA
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October 23, 2006, 03:49:55 PM |
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Yup, you gotta ground that stuff every time. The good news is that it usually comes out pretty easy. If not, a steel fence post puller will get it out.
I had this idea once, but I never got around to implementing it. I thought I would have "hot posts" all over the farm. I would bury underground electric fence wire next to regular electric fence wire. The regular stuff would be the ground. Each "hot post" would have a hot wire and a ground wire. Usually, you would just connect to the hot wire, but if you wanted to run a pos/neg fence, you could. The underground wires would be connected to a zapper running on AC power. Then, all of the portable fences would need to come close to a hot post to tap into the juice. You could have a pen that was a ways away from a hot post and there would be an above ground wire from the hot post to the pen.
Just a crazy idea.
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