OK, I'm back. Has everyone been good?

I feel your pain Two Guns. I just got shocked again about an hr ago. . even with my rubber boots on, it hurt like heck. Unlady like words came out of my mouth, and I fell to my knees. This was 4.5 kv and I guess felt like a bumble bee sting. I put cut off switches at every gate but thought I could tie the new wire in without touching it. Not smart. The cut off switches are worth their weight in gold , Besides helping isolate shorts , they help in these cases. The energizer takes the high amp electricity from the breaker and turns it into low amp so only low amps are on the fence. it can be high volts hense the pain but low amps so it won't kill you. I would thing if you hit your head it might trigger a seizure in some folks, so I would avoid that too.Get you one of those fiberglass poking sticks. You can press down the fence with those and cross just fine as long as you can swing your leg over clear. Bordercollie</p>
 
These fences sound dangerous......Sure hope there are noyoung children in the vicinity of these high tension wires..High voltage/low amps or not, anything that can kill a 300lb heifer or set a grown man flat on his butt could easily harm a small child...BTW..way back when I 1st received electronic training, a compulsory safety session advised that current as low as .5A could stop the heart or cause it to spasm under certain circumstances.</p>


Just my two milliamps worth.</p>
 
when I was still raising hogs at the old farm I had an electric wire strung aroung the barnyard pen to keep them from rooting the fence. Built my own arch for the wire to go over the gate.(6ft.6" tall). was loading hogs on a trailer one hot june day and the last one was not wanting to load. Grabbed my steel pipe snare and snagged me a back leg and dragged him to load him. When I backed up on the trailer my sweated up neck hit that hot wire and it knocked me and the hog down in the S***. Let me tell you I have been hit with blackjacks that were mild compared to that. Then I had to chase that hog around till I could dive on the snare and pull him back on the trailer. Since I got my built in shocker(ICD) the docs tell me not to be around spark plugs,magnetos and welders. Needless to say I went and bought one of them test lights for the fence. I make sure it is turned off before I run the weedeater along the wire also.<br _moz_editor_bogus_node="TRUE" /></p>
 
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probably started balking and gave up and her heart eventually quit from the pain.</p>
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I, Two Guns, is a victim of an electric fence >>>>
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After telling a farm hand to go down and turn off a certain section of a electric fence, was going out into the swamps and woods on the place. From there, I really don't know what happend. </p>


Being the outdoor type of person, always carry a weapon of some sort. That day, for I was carryinga full-sized rifle. During the so-called "crossing the fence" . Something happened. Felt like a bolt of lightning struck me. For I have never, ever thrown down a weapon in my life until now !!! After understanding I was not dead, was laying flat on my back,only inches away from these hot wires, my body shaking . Knowing damn well I'vejust managed to get brain damage, nerve damage, and damage not even known yet, yep, I was hurting. For I've just thrown my weapon about 20 feet on the other side of this hot wire. Not understanding what really happend other that the farm hand, that always does what he's told, best person in the world, just forgot to throw the breaker, or was he just getting back at me for laughing so hard the other day for scaring him with a snake. We will never know the truth, but what I do know is that fence was still hotter that it ever was ..... After trying collect myself, I had to get that rifle. So I slowly but surely, climbed my spanked ass into the RTV and went to the breaker myself and threw it so the weapon could be retreaved .</p>


We next had a meeting at the barn. All the farm handslook as if they hadsympathy in their eyes, ( I thought ). There was not even a crack of a smile,not a word spoken,for it was not the time for that.Of course, nobody knewnothing. Even the responsible farm hand looked as he didn't have a clue. </p>


A few days went by, and like everywhere else on planet earth, people talk. Talk of the town was all about me testing the electric fence that horrible day.</p>


The Bottom Line Is : THEM DAMN ELECTRIC FENCES HURT LIKE HELL !!!!</p>


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it could have been worst pelosie or how ever you spell the beoch's name could have been water boarding you.lmao good thing you didn't have a round chambered. me and two buddys "they was negros" we was all buddies and all hunted well one day i had went hunting with them and we tied my piroque up to a "do not dredge sign" and well i tied it up good. we we was just about to start off into the woods when all of a sudden this old pickup truck came barreling down the crawfish pond levee next thing you know rounds start popping off into the water and the guys yelling %$#%#%%@%@%@%$!!!!!! well i wasn't gonna stay around to find out what he wanted . and my two buddies was waiting for me to untie the boat but man i just couldn't get that knot undone. well don't you know that dumb a-hole goes and toss his 12 guage up into the air across the bayou and it was like slow motion we watched it and when it started comin down we dove into the pond next thing we heard was the gun go off. right after that them two guys bailed out on me and dove into the bayou grabbed the gun and ran into the swamp . i finally got the knot undone and jumped into the boat gave it a push and it flew across the bayou and as it was going across the bayou i was runnin to the other side of the boat when the boat hit the other side i flew out grabbed the nose of it and slid it over the levee and into the swamp . the funny part is the freakin truck never showed upi don't know if the shotgun wentoff in his direction or not and he might have thought we was firing back at him.lmao we never went back to that spot!!!!!</p>
 
I looked at a few of those videos and the only one that looked real was of the 3 guys touching it . If something shorts out the fence, it may make a single pop noise for 1 sec then off 1 second then pops 1 second again and so on until the short is removed but nothing like buzzing-- not at all .. and about the "spark" it is more like a tiny arc from the wire to the object shorting it out and the spark is hardly visible in daylight . I have been doing this for 15 yrs and get shocked about 4 times a yr on avg. Muleman, my Dad got one of those in '95. Welding was his favorite thing -He really missed it. One doc said the newer welders were safer but by then his Parkinsons was too bad. You sure don't want anything disrupting you normal heart rhythm or you could be in trouble that is for sure. I 'd be willing to send you 20 or so feet of that used insulated wire for going under gates if you have a use. I am replacing some of the insulated wire here even though it is ok . It is just lighter than I need I think it is 16 g but not sure. The replacement wire I am using is heavier . Wish I could have saved the meat from that 900 lb heifer.I just hate waste ya know?. Bordercollie</p>
 
I have that same heavy wire under all my gates. Thanks. I ran it in 1/2 inch conduit for the main gate I run the tractors in and out to protect it from the tires when it gets muddy.</p>
 
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I looked at a few of those videos and the only one that looked real was of the 3 guys touching it . If something shorts out the fence, it may make a single pop noise for 1 sec then off 1 second then pops 1 second again and so on until the short is removed but nothing like buzzing-- not at all .. and about the "spark" it is more like a tiny arc from the wire to the object shorting it out and the spark is hardly visible in daylight . I have been doing this for 15 yrs and get shocked about 4 times a yr on avg. Muleman, my Dad got one of those in '95. Welding was his favorite thing -He really missed it. One doc said the newer welders were safer but by then his Parkinsons was too bad. You sure don't want anything disrupting you normal heart rhythm or you could be in trouble that is for sure. I 'd be willing to send you 20 or so feet of that used insulated wire for going under gates if you have a use. I am replacing some of the insulated wire here even though it is ok . It is just lighter than I need I think it is 16 g but not sure. The replacement wire I am using is heavier . Wish I could have saved the meat from that 900 lb heifer.I just hate waste ya know?. Bordercollie</p>
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i understand what you mean about waisting when i'm eating and i feel i am getting full i try to pick out all the meat and eat it first because i don't want that animal to have died for nuthing. a plant is a plant but a life is a life and if i take an animals life i am gonna make sure it was worth it and it's not gonna be waisted. not to make the thread take another turn but bordercollie i see you have that rtv in another thread stacked up with a load did you ever get your side rails fixed or figured out ? i remember you posting something about raising them up so you could haul some hay or something.</p>
 
Yea, If the critter isn't dangerous, I think if ya kill it then you eat it. If it is dangerous then you have to do what needs doing. You may have seen a thread about me talking to someone about their hay hauling. We don't use much hay here but do use cotton moat by the 18 wheeler load.. Once we get the small bales in the barn from buying them, I put them in the skid steer and put 1 or 2 in each feed mixer load for roughage. ....I welded up a toolbox to fit down the driver's side of the RTV to carry my tools in. You would have to put a bag over your head if someone thought you made it haha but it is dry and works for me. It would interfere with side rails so I really haven't thought about it much anymore. You may have seen the picture of the minerals and backrubbers on my RTV. It's true, I did look like the Beverly Hillbillies but the granny rocker was laying in my pickup (viewable on the side of the RTV) . I will try to post a picture on another thread of the RTV's most important use from when I first got it in "05. Thanks Bordercollie</p>
 
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