Grounding portable electric netting...?

[HiddenHollows]

We have portable electric nettting in an area and area of about 8 acres that we planned to use to rotate through, around a 1/2 acre is fenced at a time.

The issue I have is grounding. Every typical charger asks for 3 6-8' rods. Now that means that I have to either move the rods or put in new ones each section. Is there an option that I have not thought of to deal with this.

Is there a charger that does better on less or is there a way to do this easily on portable systems.

The perimeter is not fenced so I couldn't just tap off that fence or anything like that.

Any suggestions on how others handle this would be greatly appreciated.

[agmantoo]

I would not use the netting without a sound perimeter fence. You are just creating a potential problem if all you have is the netting.

[.netDude]

http://www.kencove.com/fence/Grounding_detail_MGQ.php

-portable ground rod

[Bearfootfarm]

What are you trying to fence in? Chickens wont take much af a ground to keep them contained, but if it's sheep or goats youll need all the grounding you can get

[giddy]

I have 4 goats in portable electric netting. Its their only fence except the perimeter of my 27 acres. I have never had trouble with them getting out or even getting close to it. It is easy enough for one or two people to put up. My fence charger(electric) is for up to 6 miles of fence and I have one ground rod. I have about 300' of the netting.

[rambler]

I'd sure want the perimiter fencing, & tap off of that.

Is this a solar charger, or battery operated?

You can run a ground wire to where ever the grounding rods are.

You can run a wire around the area & on the steel posts, not insulated, and use _this_ as your ground rod. Obviously you need to keep the netting off the grounding wire. If you have dry sandy soil, doesn't work as well, but the posts will lightly ground, with many posts they do the job. If you have wet clay soils, works pretty good.

Note this is a deal where more posts is better, you don't just want 2-3 posts doing your grounding, you want all of them!

--->Paul