What Kind of Fence is This?

cat fever · Oct 4, 2016

It's a kid fence. He told his kids, "you can play anywhere inside the electric wire". :laughing:

ustmd · Oct 4, 2016

hosspuller said:
Cattle aren't Olympic jumpers like horses or goats. A 24 inch high barbed wire will keep them in. The lower wire is to keep their heads from under the wire. While grazing, a cow will get their head under the wire reaching for a morsel, then raise up tearing the barbed wire out of the posts. Then every body is free.

Sorry--I have to disagree on that one. Last week, I watched 5 cows jump a 4ft horse fence to get into one of my pastures....

cat fever · Oct 4, 2016

ustmd said:
Sorry--I have to disagree on that one. Last week, I watched 5 cows jump a 4ft horse fence to get into one of my pastures....

Yes, it only takes one that is a jumper and the rest are just copy cats. Seen it several times with a neighbors cows.

murphy1244 · Oct 4, 2016

cat fever said:
Yes, it only takes one that is a jumper and the rest are just copy cats. Seen it several times with a neighbors cows.

I would take those to the processors first.

cat fever · Oct 4, 2016

murphy1244 said:
I would take those to the processors first.

One time we did keep his bull for a few days to keep our cows company.

This neighbor told us "a good fence makes a good neighbor". So I put one up.

This type of fence surrounds my property. It has 3 hot wires.

roadhunter · Oct 4, 2016

Deer friendly livestock fence.

2LaneCruzer · Oct 4, 2016

roadhunter said:
Deer friendly livestock fence.

And quite attractive too.

dragoneggs · Oct 4, 2016

cat fever said:
One time we did keep his bull for a few days to keep our cows company.

This neighbor told us "a good fence makes a good neighbor". So I put one up.
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This type of fence surrounds my property. It has 3 hot wires.

Beautiful and functional! :thumbsup: And just a tad more $$$ than the OP's fence pic.

rustyshakelford · Oct 4, 2016

We would run fence like that on several hundred acre places or if we were leasing pasture short term. The top wire looked hot with its insulator. The bottom could be hot also but like someone mentioned grass can short it out. They could've sprayed the fence row and it's just grown back and was used for curious calves trying to explore

Brett

oosik · Oct 5, 2016

Honestly - barbed wire at 24" isn't going to keep many cows out. They will either, just step over or simply smash it down. As far as the electric wire - well, as soon as it makes contact with the weeds/grass, its grounded. And if the electric wire is one of those "weed cutter" types - watch out for wildfires.

I just can't imagine anything that would be confined buy the setup the OP has shown. If it were such a great deal - everybody would be using it.