I will never forget.... An old boyfriend brought his dog to my place. He let him out of the truck, so he could run a bit. Dog ran around, came up to us, and raised his leg to a fence post. OMG the yelling that poor dog did! He then gave my friend the dirtiest look I have ever seen from a dog. Got back into the truck and stayed there......
Back when I was a kid we had an old 69 Dodge Power Wagon farm truck and it didnt have anything inside except metal besides the seat. Me Mom and Dad were going up the mountain to home and a bee flew in the truck. Mom freaked out and threw the door open to get the bee out. The door opened against the electric fence and electrified the whole truck. LOL It was an interesting evacuation.
Last winter me and my younger son were up feeding the goats and my son who is close to 6' tall went to lean over to get something from the other side of the fence. When he bent over he touched the fence with his neck right on the adams apple. LOL You should have heard that bellow.
I will never forget.... An old boyfriend brought his dog to my place. He let him out of the truck, so he could run a bit. Dog ran around, came up to us, and raised his leg to a fence post. OMG the yelling that poor dog did! He then gave my friend the dirtiest look I have ever seen from a dog. Got back into the truck and stayed there......
poor thing, really made me laugh.
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My story is about my aunt and uncle who lived on a dairy farm. The kids would go out and bring the cows in to be milked, my uncle would milk and my aunt (little ole short lady about 4'6") made us breakfast and while we ate, would clean up the milking equipment. This was late spring so grass was growing around the milk barn so uncle put up a hot fence around the barn (no need to mow). We were all eating breakfast when we heard this scream, all ran out to the back porch and my aunt (wearing a dress and apron) was hopping back and forth over the hot fence, the flab on her legs would swing into the wire and she would hop in the other direction - now we kids thought that was funny, she didn't.
I put the electric fence up last year and you'd think I'd be able to remember it's there, but this last winter I was trying to fix a stock tank water heater, it was supposed to screw into the stock tanks drain plug. It was leaking, and rather than go in to the pasture and work on it I knelt on in the wet puddle, reached through the fence careful to avoid the hot wire with my hands and arms, leaned forward to see....
And accidentally touched the hot wire with my forehead!!
OUCH!!!! I had a headache for a week! And to add insult to injury I shocked my arms repeatedly as I became entangled in the hot wire and barbed wire below it trying to get my head away from that fence!
I went with my neighbor to repair a break in his electric fence. He didn't turn off the power because he said it was shorted out ahead of there. I stood back while he squatted down and grabbed the wire. He came up from the squat so fast he jumped waaayy high in the air. When he came down, I was laughing. He threatened to whip me! He could have done it, too, cause he was fully charged and I was weak from laughter.
I try to warn prospective visitors not to let my now grown children talk them into playing crack the whip on the fence .... sigh no one listens
Best one though .... metal machine shed , opposite far end is a metal gate , hung on and old section of 10" gas well pipe ... gat chained closed to shed, inside hot wire run through piece of rubber hose to hook to pipe ... somehow wore a hole in the hose ... paid no attention one day going out to barn on the opposite side that the whole machineshed was ticking away ....went to open the door to attatched corncrib and leaned on the shed ,wont say it was raining too ....
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We have a mule who tests the fence with her whiskers. You can watch her very slowly get near any wire and as soon as her whiskers start to quiver she backs away. Sure tells us we'd better NEVER trust her to think it's on when it's not! She's also been known to open gates we'd never have dreamed she could.
When I was a kid I had a uncle who convinced me to pee on the electric fence....No need for further explanation. We used to play crack the whip alot and me being the yougest always ended up being the last one to get grabbed. I had mean siblings I guess.
We used to have a cow whose horns were shaped like motorcycle handlebars. she would put her head straight with her spine, place those horns on the polywire, and walk straight out. Then she would eat all the grass she could reach and then walk straight backwards. Then move down 10 or 15 feet and do it again. It took DH a long time to figure out where all those neatly clipped triangles of grass came from.
I have one of those moveable woven electric fences. I was in it with the goats one day and our cat fred came walking towards me. He proceeded to gingerly, in the nature of a cat, step carefully through the fence squares. He got shocked and screamed. His whole body went pfft! and he ran so fast he was blurry. The goats of course were alarmed and running in circles and I was laughing so hard I was crying! Fred never climbed through a fence again, and eventually ditched us for the neighbors.
We have this broken concrete thing that is shaped kind of like a wall chunk. I was sitting on it one day and reached over the wire to pet this little steer on the head. His chin was wet and when I touched him, his chin touched the wire. Little did I realize the concrete was imbedded with metal. That shock went through my fingers where I was touching the steer, took the shortest route through my body and went out my butt cheek where I was sitting on the imbedded metal. I felt that 'line of flight' through my body for days.
one day when i was a kid decided to walk down the stream in the water. when I got to what I thought was barb wire I grab the top wire to go under. To this day I could show you that spot
Forgot the fencer was on and leaned over to hook up the gate. It was dark and I was going mostly by feel. I couldn't find it so I was groping around trying to find the handle, but not being real careful 'cause I was pretty sure the fencer was off. My head must've touched the middle wire. When I woke up, my neighbor was yelling "Holy S^%t!" "Your head was on fire!" I don't remember anything except when I came to, I was three feet inside the fence on my hands and knees. How I got there, Lord only knows.
The best one I heard was my college roommate, they had a bull get out of the fence and was on the loose. The chased him for the better part of 2 hours and then he got over to the cow pasture and he smelled a cow in heat. He get a little "excited" and he decided to make a run at the fence he cleared the fence but "it" caught the fence like a tail hook on an aircraft carrier, one good jolt and he locked up and stood in one spot they walked up put a rope over his head and led him to the trailer.
Seems like a 'guy thing' to test the fence. I dont think I have ever seen a woman do that...at least not on PURPOSE.
Got any good electric fencing stories? Animals, kids, other?
Over 30yrs ago, when we hadn't been married that long and the first children were small, we had an electric fence around a rabbit colony to keep cats and other predators out with a wire on the top and bottom of the pen and some barb wires running across the top in a weaved fashion. The neighbor's boy, about 10-12, decided he wanted to reach into the pen to pet the colony rabbits. He got shocked on the inside of his arm above his elbow about half-way up to the armpit. It left a red line where he had brushed up against the wire with his bare, tender skin there. His Mother had a fit! She called both Animal control and the police to complain that I was cruel to animals and abused her child, and then went to the state's atty to see if it was even legal to have electric fence wire ran where a child might touch it. She demanded that they prosecute me for endangering her child.
Needless to say, they all told her to keep her son off our property. He shouldn't have been up there near our house anyway, especially since we were gone at the time.
Anyway, time has passed, and this boy is in his 40s now. So he lived through the "zing" he got from the hot wire. Nice guy. I don't know know if his Mom is still a "rip" or not. She still won't speak to me.
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