Electric Fence to stop Bear
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jimmyj
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Maybe hamsters! 
Sorry, have not had time to take any pics and I'm going away for business for a few days.
Perhaps it would be advisable to speak to a fence dealer in your area. The resellers in my area are very knowledgeable.
Sorry, have not had time to take any pics and I'm going away for business for a few days.
Perhaps it would be advisable to speak to a fence dealer in your area. The resellers in my area are very knowledgeable.
Maybe hamsters!
Sorry, have not had time to take any pics and I'm going away for business for a few days.
Perhaps it would be advisable to speak to a fence dealer in your area. The resellers in my area are very knowledgeable.
Jimmyj, No problem. The unit should arrive in a couple of days. There is a Feed Store in Gardnerville that carries material for electric fences. I'm sure they know a bit about them. Thanks for taking the time you did.
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mapmaker
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As a bee keeper I use an electric fence to keep the local bears away from my hive. The trick is to teach the bear that they want to stay away from the fence. Hang raw bacon on the wires, they will lick the wire and get a good zap. They learn quickly not to go near the wire. It doesn't work 100% of the time but its better then having them push through the wires. Hate to have to shoot them because they are just doing what bears do.
That sounds good, the bacon. I'd rather not lure them in though. I got an enegizer 9 plus joules. We have started wiring the fence and had to order more insulators. We have an existing fence [wood post and horse wire] that we are electrifying. I'll give the bacon thing some thought, maybe it is the thing to do.
How many joules is your energizer?
I hated to shoot bear too, but thats what people do if you kill their animals and endanger their children. We have very large and growing population of bear in California due to protection and moving problems to other areas to that became problems there. There are bear expanding into new areas. I think this electric zapper should do the trick. I have a friend in Socal who is a Beekeeper. He says " people take the solar energizers".
thanks for your input.
How many joules is your energizer?
I hated to shoot bear too, but thats what people do if you kill their animals and endanger their children. We have very large and growing population of bear in California due to protection and moving problems to other areas to that became problems there. There are bear expanding into new areas. I think this electric zapper should do the trick. I have a friend in Socal who is a Beekeeper. He says " people take the solar energizers".
thanks for your input.
Not sure why I'm throwing this out... but here it goes Our electric fence ended up killing two birds and a ground hog this summer!! The birds landed on the wire but reach over and *tried* to eat some sunflower seeds. The feet were still tightly wraped around the wire when we found them. The ground hog tried to crawl under... I at least felt sorry for the birds... not so for the other. I guess maybe... make sure your kids can't get to the wire.
It is a small system, 5 miles, I think only 0.75 Joules... but it was only on a couple hundred feet of wire... I don't know if that makes it any stronger It looked like the ground hog got about halfway under the lowest wire, which was 3" off the ground so he had to have pushed it up... to have gotten as far as he did.
It looked like the ground hog got about halfway under the lowest wire, which was 3" off the ground so he had to have pushed it up... to have gotten as far as he did.