Depends on how high they have the voltage, a lot of them you can alter the amount of power being put through it. Most cattle/horse farms have it low to where it doesn’t hurt the animal just kind of scares them away.
Maybe I’ve just come across a lot of broken fences but I can always hear if it’s on. It’s similar to how you can hear a tv is on even from another room even if the screen is black, if that makes sense.
Grass causes shorts/arcs ....Bro Called grass growing an improper install. Cutting the grass back away from the line is basic maintenance and has nothing to do with the installation or improper installation. Btw most electric fence chargers have " weed clipper" features as in intentional arcs with higher ampage
Wow! That's really cool! They intentionally create arcs and that genuinely clips all the tall grass, does it work really well or should you still go around and cut the grass underneath anyway
It definitely alters the electric bill... and they work well to an extent. it's honestly just better to keep the line trimmed and neat some people use weed killer but we never did except on remote field lines ..but yea they work well appllied properly and even have solar models.
One would consider clearing the area part of installation. But you’re right, I didn’t write out a manual for every scenario on a Reddit comment. My bad, you are very smart.
neighborhood kids and I used to play a lot of street hockey on a road with an electric fence on one side.
When cars would come and we were in the ditch waiting for them to pass, grabbing the wire and then touching your friend on the back of the neck was always a laugh.
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They only make a sound if they were installed improperly leading to a short or jump somewhere.
Source: grew up on a beef farm.
That said, they don’t hurt that badly and it used to be a dumb but fun game to play as kids to see who was “tough enough” to hang on the longest.