PILOON
Super Star Member
While we are in a true rural setting, we have weekly garbage pickup.
The system used here is large plastic bins on wheels that are loaded by a robotic truck system.
Naturally the bears tend to treat the bins as a 'drive in lunch counter' and if they trash the bin then we, home owners, have to purchase a new one.
In the past we simply repaired the wooden boxes we all made.
My question is:
Being plastic I could easily wire up an electric fence unit to (hopefully) zap mr (or mrs) bear.
Any experience doing this?
Will it be effective?
Any info I have read makes me think that electric fences may not be as effective on a bear due to his hair being longer than cattle and horses, hopefully I am wrong.
Thanks.
The system used here is large plastic bins on wheels that are loaded by a robotic truck system.
Naturally the bears tend to treat the bins as a 'drive in lunch counter' and if they trash the bin then we, home owners, have to purchase a new one.
In the past we simply repaired the wooden boxes we all made.
My question is:
Being plastic I could easily wire up an electric fence unit to (hopefully) zap mr (or mrs) bear.
Any experience doing this?
Will it be effective?
Any info I have read makes me think that electric fences may not be as effective on a bear due to his hair being longer than cattle and horses, hopefully I am wrong.
Thanks.