Fencing woes

What are you using for ground rods? What does your charger recommend for ground rods?

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I won't use smooth wire either, I've seen some terrible, terrible lower leg injuries from it, some fatal.

We have 3 x 6' rods from TSC, pounded all the way in.

Thank you for posting this picture Tiempo. I have seen even worse...belly slashed open along with wounds like this on legs and sides. I didn't say electric wire isn't dangerous. Everything is dangerous with horses unless you have them in a padded cell. I use 5 strand barbless wire with the top and 4th one down hot in my 1 acre permanent pasture. I use temporary 2 strands of electric poly braid stuff in my 5 acres that is rotated. I use the same 5 strand permanent in the 3/4 acre attached to the barn along with vinyl fencing with hot wire just on the top rail to keep them off it (it's expensive!). I had one incident where Spencer ran through the poly rope and it busted. He didn't see it (so I now do a better job of marking the fence line for them) A friend told me that's why they use wire...it's tougher. I told her that if it would have been wire it would have sliced my horse in half. You could see on his chest where he hit the poly stuff...hair ruffed up but no broken skin (whew!)

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My dad needs to show you how to build a fence. When I was a little kid 50 yrs. ago he built fence for our 3 horses and six cows. I don't remember any of them ever getting out. He hand streatched used barbed wire from tree to tree, one wire only, about 28 inches off the ground. I was back there about two years ago and believe it or not some of that wire can still be found grown into those trees.

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