07/01/09, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Indiana, USA
Posts: 12,667
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Originally Posted by fantasymaker
LOL well if your gonna do something do it right I like the sound of that charger.
I had a simular setup for a while when I had sheep ,problem is small stuff like small dogs and badgers will go under it big stuff will jump over it. Ive seen a coyote clear 5 feet in a single jump.
I also had trouble keeping it hot till I put the bottom wire on a seperate charger. how do you handle it when it snows and that bottom wire is in the snow? or for that matter the bottom 3 feet of the fence?
Also I didnt find it very effective against the 2 legged variety of rat.
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I don't remember huge snow drifts, as it is an open fence. There was one area where the lowest wire was drifted over about 1', but the wire still had a charge.
My theory is that if an animal climbs on the second wire, that is not hot, they will probably touch the third wire, which is hot. Ditto, with the 4th and 5th wire.
It may not be the perfect setup (maybe all 5 wires hot), but it seems to keep the good animals in and the bad one's out.
If you had problems with 2 legged rats, maybe you needed a charger, with a bigger shock. 
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. As far as the driveway is concerned, I was just going to compact the top soil, then add road pack. I would like to add some kind of edge (wood or big rocks) to build the roadway about 4 inches above the terrain to keep the water draining in case of big rains. Would this be OK!
