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I use the recoil pad on my gun. push it down and cross gingerly. do it every morning and aint been nipped yet. I'm like nighthawk, I hate them fricken things and avoid a shock at all cost, trust no one unless they touch it first.

be safe and you'll have no problems. I don't even trust grounding it out.

Well what you need is two friends,one on your left and one on your right. Have them hold hands and pee on the fence at the same time. The current will go up one friend's stream, across their clasped hands, down the other's stream back into the fence. Because they are only in contact with each other and the fence they won't get shocked and it will leave a dead spot in the fence between them where you can safely cross.

Just don't cross the streams. It would be bad. I'm talking total protonic reversal.

^^ This ^^ that's how I've always done it. But I'm a little more Parinoid then most.
When I use this method, I won't hold the rifle by the barrel, just the wood part of the stock!

BTW, you won't pee on the fence more than once! We used to pull that stunt on our city slicker cousins that would come visit in the summertime.

Did their kids look like them?

I always grabbed my brothers arm just before I touched the wire. I never did get shocked doing it that way.

A chopper & a Farraday suit




Mike

If there's a PO'd male bovine on your side of the fence, you'll get over without a thought about getting shocked. If fact, before you're over, you'll be praying that it's an extra hot fence.

Check to see if all the wires have insulators. Those that don't are cold. Usually when we build 4 wire hi tensile fence, counting from the bottom up, #2 and #4 are hot. If that's your case, then you can crawl under/over the bottom wire or take a chance, push # 3 down a bit and go between 3 and 4.

Better yet is to find a gate. If you have to climb the gate, be sure you do so near the post it's hanging on. That minimizes the leverage you're putting on the gatepost with your body weight.

Dale

I have memories from somewhere about 45 years ago of steppig across an electric barbed wire fence on tip toes. Thought I would be fine since I was wearing rubber boots and the fence was not so tall. Well... I did not tip toe it quite enough and one of the barbs penetrated the crotch of my pants.... Did not take much time at all to finish getting over the fence! Last time that I tried that stunt.

Just be sure to use a forked stick that won't break just as your astraddle the wire. Did that as a kid and still remember jumping, and dancing while being shocked on my inner thighs and crotch area, until I finally grabbed the hot wire in my hand to get off the damn thing.

Why exactely would you be going over someone else's electric fence ?

Because with my fences I know where the gates are.





(Common here to get permission to hunt a farmer's land unattended, either he doesn't want to hunt or has chores to do. The fence may be on or off, cattle present or not. Common practice in this part of the country is to put up a temporary fence around a harvested field or temporary pasture and let cattle in. The fence stays there until it is wanted somewhere else.)

Same system here...we just use the gate.

Oh we have those but they may be a quarter mile or more away from where you would cross, if you can find them.

Places I know I'll cross regularly get a couple feet of old garden hose split lengthwise with a utility knife.

Don't do it near well traveled roads though.

A cow is a curious critter. She fools around with it long enough to realize a mouthful of the proverbial greener can be had and next thing ya know ZAP! and down comes the whole wire.

Pee on it first.

You will no longer have a fence-crossing problem.

Find the best spot and go under bottom wire.

Same way you go over concertina wire.. Thick piece of carpet remnant.

Weren't any of you ever a juvenile delinquent??

a woman horse trainer i had could touch or hold those wires with no effect at all ,,,,yes they were live.

norm

I am not sure what the answer is, but I can tell you *categorically* don't try to step over it while wearing damp hunting pants. Goretex maybe waterproof, and its not an insulator!