This cattle fence has 4, high tension wire with plastic posts. I wear electronic muffs and the amount of stuff going thru those lines makes my muffs snap, crackle, & pop! What is the safest way to cross said fence? Thank You Campfire Members & Happy Holidays to you and Yours!
This cattle fence has 4, high tension wire with plastic posts. I wear electronic muffs and the amount of stuff going thru those lines makes my muffs snap, crackle, & pop! What is the safest way to cross said fence? Thank You Campfire Members & Happy Holidays to you and Yours!
Place the forearm of your rifle or shotgun on the top wire and press it down enough to step over it.If you happen to get bit, it's not as bad as a spark plug wire.
I will look for a forked or branched stick, to push the wires lower and then step over. If one does happen to be near the charger, then I will disconnet or turn it off momentarily.
Some run up in the 9 k volt range but have low amps. That being, they don't really hurt one, but they do get your attention.
Mine is right around 8000 volts at the far end...more than that closer in. If you wear thick rubber boots and don't touch anything else (like a fence post) you can push it down and cross it....BUT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING THAT WILL GROUND YOU!
You could also have a coated wire with uncoated ends that you could use to ground it to a metal fence post and cross downstream of the flow. Any shock should be minor...but make sure you remove the wire after you've crossed or you've shorted the farmer's fence and made it useless.
Or pole vault, those fences scare the crap out of me. Even if the guy who owns it is with me and he swears it's off, it's always him first. My pet phobia.
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.
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.
^^ 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.
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.
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.
I will look for a forked or branched stick, to push the wires lower and then step over. If one does happen to be near the charger, then I will disconnet or turn it off momentarily.
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.
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.)
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.
This cattle fence has 4, high tension wire with plastic posts. I wear electronic muffs and the amount of stuff going thru those lines makes my muffs snap, crackle, & pop! What is the safest way to cross said fence? Thank You Campfire Members & Happy Holidays to you and Yours!
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!
This cattle fence has 4, high tension wire with plastic posts. I wear electronic muffs and the amount of stuff going thru those lines makes my muffs snap, crackle, & pop! What is the safest way to cross said fence? Thank You Campfire Members & Happy Holidays to you and Yours!
Take a stick about 2 feet long. Lay down on the ground to go under the fence while laying flat. Look for a bit of a low spot. Use the stick in both hands to push up on the bottom wire of the fence. Do kind of a rolling motion to get from one side to the other.
the above is the safest. lay a piece of plastic down to help you slide under. the hose trick will get your crotch warmed up with my fence! rubber gloves had better be linemans gloves [ with a 10,000 volt rateing] or you will drop that idea too.
rock chuck - darned near lost another keyboard on that un.
