This is the best video that I have seen and I have watched about 30. Good insulator over view. Great advice on both what did and did not work for you. Direct and to the point which makes it brief and to the point. Covered grounded and ungrounded fence and various possible connections and materials. THANKS
I've seen an awful lot of instructional youtube videos and NONE of been BETTER than this one. I knew hardly anything about electric fences before viewing this video but now I'm confident I can install one (or more). BTW, I, too, appreciate the Made in America charger and will get one now that I know at least one company makes them here. Thanks for an excellent video!
Thanks for the video, Lewis. I'm about to install and setup my 1st electric fence on this part of the land. Have a great Independence Day. God bless America.
DEFINITELY prefer the screw on to the clip on!! When I first put my electric fence up all I could find were the clip on ones. I can't tell you how many times I had to go out in the cold and sometimes dark to fix fence because those clip on trash would break! Not to mention how many I broke in the cold just trying to replace them! They are a total waste of money. I have also had a lot of nail on kind break on me. I had lots of trouble with deer running through my fence. I had mostly bare wire to begin with. Even though I flagged the wire, they still ran through it. Tried a yellow/black twisted poly, nope, they still ran through it. I seemed to have better luck with the white tape. So this year I am completely redoing my fence with white tape on the top and white twisted poly on subsequent strands. I am hoping the deer will jump it rather than run through it.
You got a decent set of arms. I'm retired now but came from a family that tossed bales onto the wagon with a pitchfork. We were always trying to knock the guy off the top of the wagon! lol.
Great video! Great idea on the middle wire as a ground, the instructions of the solar pack say to install a grounding rod every 10’...$$$$! Because you do the middle wire as a ground how often do you put a ground rod? Also what brand of solar pack dc system do you recommend? Thanks again for the great content!
I just put in one ground rod. At least for cows, I've seen fences be off for weeks and the cows still avoid it. We have x4 Parmak chargers, besides changing $30 batteries, they have lasted several decades
Thanks for posting this. Very good information. Can you tell me what you used to connect the hot wire to main fence? Is that a clamp? Looked as if you used a crescent wrench to tighten it. Do you mind to send a link to it? Thanks again. Great video.
I think you might be asking about this www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/american-farmworks-galvanized-electric-fence-line-clamp-pack-of-3-1213240?store=2387&cm_mmc=feed-_-GoogleShopping-_-Product-_-1213240&gclid=CjwKCAiAxp-ABhALEiwAXm6IyYQspftWnApkMJeuFz5NQo304b2W-b2wB0YKZ6rQVz36LXZ05I5ocBoC5mkQAvD_BwE
Thank you for explaining the different types and proper ground, I literally on the fence "pun intended" on whether to use solar or hard wired power, I have 10 acres I will be using for a couple horses and a few goats and was looking for what would apply best. Seeing your cattle lets me know that your fence has to be good. You explained the ground very well as I am new to this and didn't quite understand how it worked. Only question I have is your grounding rod was what 6' at least, is that a necessary length? and can I use a rebar pole for a grounding rod? Thank you in advance.
A good ground is real important with an electric fence. I recommend an actual grounding rod. At least something that doesn't rust because iron oxide is an insulator.
I'm having trouble with my first electric fence. Does a lane/run of wire need to be looped back to itself? Or just dead-ended? I have them looped with no voltage coming through. If I just attach a test 1 foot wire to my box, the wire goes live. But not on a run for a round goat pen. I have checked 5x and have no wires touching metal stakes, nor trees, nor any sticks laying on the ground. It's driving me nuts. I do have those gate disconnects and starting to wonder if they have a defect. Any thoughts? Maybe I should dead end each run so the end is not reconnecting with the start of the wire run...
I don’t think I’ve ever looped it back to itself. Maybe that’s the problem. Can you alter just one run and hook it up to just that and see if it fixes it?
@LewisRenovation great suggestion- so I have 5 runs. If I hook a single wire from box to a run, each one of them works fine. As soon as I connect a 2nd run together, the power drops out (using a tester). As soon as I take some pliers and pull the jumper wire off the 2nd run (so it's a single powered run again), the voltage comes back. Like what in the heck. Is my box weak? I have 3 6' ground rods in also
@LewisRenovation oh, forgot to mention I killed the full connected loops. Each run ends an inch from it's start point in the goat fence. Then I was planning to drop a jumper wire down to each run to connect the voltage across each of the 5 runs. That's where I'm stuck. Thinking of buying a new box tomorrow
I always wondered, does the cow need to stand on the ground to completethecircuit? if the cow is smart enough to drag a piece of dry wood to stand on, and not touch middle wire, can it cross over?
Smart cows know how to push some other cow through the fence, breaking the fence. Breed your cattle for meat or for milk (or if show cattle, for beauty), but not for smarts. We knew a dairyman who had a smart cow and broken fences.
Not necessary to be a complete loop. Electricity travels through the cow and into the ground. But grounding the charger is really important to make it work.
Do you find that the cows actually do touch the hot wire and the ground wire at the same time? I have one steer that always tests the fence, but he just gently uses the tip of his nose.
Your probably using smaller diameter low strength. Find some high tensile wire and the deer can't break it. www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/high-tensile-smooth-wire-200-000-psi-4-000-ft?cm_mmc=SEM-_-Google-_-DMTDynamicCompStores-_-AllSiteTSCCompExtAd&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-rj9BRCAARIsANB_4AD9mQsNFl1D6Esn4KlCkNeXIyhe_6LstqVqt_KO5HVRzMAPPkbVrJcaAjkWEALw_wcB
The middle wire is connected to the ground on the charger. So if a cow touches a hot wire and the middle wire at the same time, the fence will shock the cow between the two wires
I like the insulators that are not the screw on ones. but I'm in a heavily treed area and when a tree falls on my hi-tensile fence it pops the insulators off without bending my t-posts up
@@LewisRenovation ok I'm asking because I'm thinking about inventing something. In order for it to work though thieves would get shocked trying to cut it.
Brother Lewis, I still don't own a tiny piece of land on my name, but I'm my burning desire to be like an American farmer drives me write to you.. Can you guide or spoon feed me?
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This is the best video that I have seen and I have watched about 30. Good insulator over view. Great advice on both what did and did not work for you. Direct and to the point which makes it brief and to the point. Covered grounded and ungrounded fence and various possible connections and materials. THANKS
Very nice comment. Thank you!
Thank you for putting in the time to make this video, God bless you.
Very nice comment. Thank you
I've seen an awful lot of instructional youtube videos and NONE of been BETTER than this one. I knew hardly anything about electric fences before viewing this video but now I'm confident I can install one (or more). BTW, I, too, appreciate the Made in America charger and will get one now that I know at least one company makes them here. Thanks for an excellent video!
Thanks for the high praise. Hopefully your fences turn out well. Do you have a lot of fences to build?
Thanks for the video, Lewis. I'm about to install and setup my 1st electric fence on this part of the land. Have a great Independence Day. God bless America.
Happy 4th to you as well!!
me too
DEFINITELY prefer the screw on to the clip on!! When I first put my electric fence up all I could find were the clip on ones. I can't tell you how many times I had to go out in the cold and sometimes dark to fix fence because those clip on trash would break! Not to mention how many I broke in the cold just trying to replace them! They are a total waste of money. I have also had a lot of nail on kind break on me. I had lots of trouble with deer running through my fence. I had mostly bare wire to begin with. Even though I flagged the wire, they still ran through it. Tried a yellow/black twisted poly, nope, they still ran through it. I seemed to have better luck with the white tape. So this year I am completely redoing my fence with white tape on the top and white twisted poly on subsequent strands. I am hoping the deer will jump it rather than run through it.
Good luck with the deer. They're probably the biggest negative for electric fence.
@@LewisRenovation I hear that. If nothing else, they taste good. 😉
i would have not thought about this and the people at the store have no clue - now i know which insulators to buy -
You got a decent set of arms. I'm retired now but came from a family that tossed bales onto the wagon with a pitchfork. We were always trying to knock the guy off the top of the wagon! lol.
Thanks! We still do square bales but usually no pitch forks :) hope you're enjoying retirement.
Doing a garden fence and this was very helpful. I do have one question on how do you do corners when using t posts?
You pretty much have to put a wood or pipe post in the corners
beautiful work Bro🙂🙂
Thank you!
Very useful and helpful, without so much "yack, yack, yack" like in many other vids. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you. I try not to yack yack too much :)
Great video! Great idea on the middle wire as a ground, the instructions of the solar pack say to install a grounding rod every 10’...$$$$! Because you do the middle wire as a ground how often do you put a ground rod?
Also what brand of solar pack dc system do you recommend?
Thanks again for the great content!
I just put in one ground rod. At least for cows, I've seen fences be off for weeks and the cows still avoid it. We have x4 Parmak chargers, besides changing $30 batteries, they have lasted several decades
@@LewisRenovation If you're going to have the middle wire as ground use clips to the t-post. That way each t-post becomes a grounding rod.
Thanks for posting this. Very good information. Can you tell me what you used to connect the hot wire to main fence? Is that a clamp? Looked as if you used a crescent wrench to tighten it. Do you mind to send a link to it? Thanks again. Great video.
I think you might be asking about this www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/american-farmworks-galvanized-electric-fence-line-clamp-pack-of-3-1213240?store=2387&cm_mmc=feed-_-GoogleShopping-_-Product-_-1213240&gclid=CjwKCAiAxp-ABhALEiwAXm6IyYQspftWnApkMJeuFz5NQo304b2W-b2wB0YKZ6rQVz36LXZ05I5ocBoC5mkQAvD_BwE
Thank you for explaining the different types and proper ground, I literally on the fence "pun intended" on whether to use solar or hard wired power, I have 10 acres I will be using for a couple horses and a few goats and was looking for what would apply best. Seeing your cattle lets me know that your fence has to be good. You explained the ground very well as I am new to this and didn't quite understand how it worked. Only question I have is your grounding rod was what 6' at least, is that a necessary length? and can I use a rebar pole for a grounding rod? Thank you in advance.
A good ground is real important with an electric fence. I recommend an actual grounding rod. At least something that doesn't rust because iron oxide is an insulator.
What post spacing would you recommend when using metal t posts and high tensile wire as a perimeter fence?
You could easily get away with 50' spacing. Probably even more if you wanted
It’s amazing how your dog has evolved such specific camouflage to blend in exactly with your garage floor. That thing is a tripping hazard :)
Lol, that's funny.
lol
Great video, loved seeing your farm.
Thank you!
I'm having trouble with my first electric fence. Does a lane/run of wire need to be looped back to itself? Or just dead-ended? I have them looped with no voltage coming through. If I just attach a test 1 foot wire to my box, the wire goes live. But not on a run for a round goat pen. I have checked 5x and have no wires touching metal stakes, nor trees, nor any sticks laying on the ground. It's driving me nuts. I do have those gate disconnects and starting to wonder if they have a defect. Any thoughts? Maybe I should dead end each run so the end is not reconnecting with the start of the wire run...
I don’t think I’ve ever looped it back to itself. Maybe that’s the problem. Can you alter just one run and hook it up to just that and see if it fixes it?
@LewisRenovation great suggestion- so I have 5 runs. If I hook a single wire from box to a run, each one of them works fine. As soon as I connect a 2nd run together, the power drops out (using a tester). As soon as I take some pliers and pull the jumper wire off the 2nd run (so it's a single powered run again), the voltage comes back. Like what in the heck. Is my box weak? I have 3 6' ground rods in also
@LewisRenovation oh, forgot to mention I killed the full connected loops. Each run ends an inch from it's start point in the goat fence. Then I was planning to drop a jumper wire down to each run to connect the voltage across each of the 5 runs. That's where I'm stuck. Thinking of buying a new box tomorrow
@@frontporchpickin289 maybe you’ve got a bad box, because if the work individual, I’d think they’d work when jumped together
@LewisRenovation confirming back it was indeed a bad/weak box! Thanks!
I always wondered, does the cow need to stand on the ground to completethecircuit? if the cow is smart enough to drag a piece of dry wood to stand on, and not touch middle wire, can it cross over?
As long as all four hooves are on the board, your exceptional cow can escape
@@LewisRenovation hahahah. thanks 😊 bud!
Smart cows know how to push some other cow through the fence, breaking the fence. Breed your cattle for meat or for milk (or if show cattle, for beauty), but not for smarts. We knew a dairyman who had a smart cow and broken fences.
Possibly dumb question, but does the fence wire need to make a complete loop, or does the ground make it possible to run it one way?
Not necessary to be a complete loop. Electricity travels through the cow and into the ground. But grounding the charger is really important to make it work.
Hi!❤ can i install ground stick about 100m from the fence? Tnx
Maybe, but I’m not completely sure. Doesn’t hurt to try though
Only helpful video I’ve found thanks!
Thank you!
Do you find that the cows actually do touch the hot wire and the ground wire at the same time?
I have one steer that always tests the fence, but he just gently uses the tip of his nose.
They touch them both if they try to push through.
@@LewisRenovation ouch. Well that’s good.
This has been helpful, thank you.
Your welcome. Are you starting a barbed wire fence project?
I don’t need an electric fence but now I want one lol
Lol, loads of fun
How do you fix the fence when it has been broken down. Deer running through it and snapping the wire.?
Your probably using smaller diameter low strength. Find some high tensile wire and the deer can't break it.
www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/high-tensile-smooth-wire-200-000-psi-4-000-ft?cm_mmc=SEM-_-Google-_-DMTDynamicCompStores-_-AllSiteTSCCompExtAd&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-rj9BRCAARIsANB_4AD9mQsNFl1D6Esn4KlCkNeXIyhe_6LstqVqt_KO5HVRzMAPPkbVrJcaAjkWEALw_wcB
I’m confused on hue you did the middle wire for a ground can you help me
The middle wire is connected to the ground on the charger. So if a cow touches a hot wire and the middle wire at the same time, the fence will shock the cow between the two wires
great video
Thank you
I like the insulators that are not the screw on ones. but I'm in a heavily treed area and when a tree falls on my hi-tensile fence it pops the insulators off without bending my t-posts up
I can see where the clip on type would be preferable in your case. Thanks for commenting.
Does the electricity shocks the cows from getting out?🤨🤨🐄🐄
It's a very uncomfortable feeling touching the fence. Cows will touch it once and stay away from them on.
If someone tries to cut a live electric fence with bolt cutters will they get shocked?
Unless they jump up in the air while they are cutting it, yes, they'll get shocked.
@@LewisRenovation ok I'm asking because I'm thinking about inventing something. In order for it to work though thieves would get shocked trying to cut it.
straight to the point
Thank you
Thank you! This answered some questions.
Happy you found it helpful
Thanks for the info!
Lot's a great info Joseph, thanks!
Your welcome. Good luck!
Ay you can use the rotory option in battery powered drills to drive ground rods.........
Good idea
Properly installed electric fences super good just don’t let my neighbor put one up he doesn’t know how to do it cows are always getting out
I have a similar neighbor with goats that keep crossing over
does the tall grass short it?
If you turn it on for the first time with tall grass it can cause problems. If the grass grows up to the fence, it just zaps it back.
You didn't show us the hands on testing procedure!
Great video!
I try to minimize the hands on testing a much as I can :)
Thank You 💚
Your welcome. Are you working on some fencing?
How far do the t post need to be apart
For high tensile, around 50 feet. For the poly tape, probably 30
Thx!
You're welcome
Thank you
Your welcome. Are you working on an electric fence project?
, will u guide me where to purchase?
Where do you live?
And you too my friend very good day
Many thanks!
If you have trouble squeezing those connectors, maybe I am not as weak as I thought. :=)
Dudes forearms... stout!
Thanks. Wife makes me eat spinach
Brother Lewis, I still don't own a tiny piece of land on my name, but I'm my burning desire to be like an American farmer drives me write to you.. Can you guide or spoon feed me?
Hopefully you get a piece of land someday. Take care.
Lol. You should get a piece of land first...rented, leased, owned, borrowed or however.
Did not show how to connect charge wire to fence electric wire.
It’s the same type of connection as the ground wire, just to the positive terminal on the charger
thank you
Yez sir... your welcome