[AT] OT - Electric horse fence

[charlie hill]

Yep the clamp will do fine.  No real need to insulate it but it
won't hurt anything.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike 
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 11:48 PM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Electric horse fence 

I like both suggestions Charlie, but the cable is already run under each 
gate. I think I'm going to use the clamps like Darrell, Cecil, and Len 
suggested, I might even put them in heat seal wrap. Thank you everyone 
who replied, it gave me a whole host of ideas.

Mike M

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On 7/13/2015 10:50 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Are your gates metal?  My friend Tom who is no longer with us
> used to have a horse farm near my house.  It's now a sub-division.
> He ran his wires up to the gate, then ran a loop of the hot wire
> through a length of garden hose that he used as a handle.  After the
> wire came out of the hose he had a hook in the end of it that
> he hooked onto the gate on the open end.  On the hinge end he just
> had a wire connected to the gate and back to the fence.  When he
> wanted to go through the fence he lifted the length of water hose
> and removed the hook, opened and re-closed the gate and dropped the
> hook back in place.  The continuity in the fence was interrupted just for
> the few seconds the gate was open but when close the gate was hot like
> the fence.  That kept the horses and people from laying on the gate.
> He taught lessons to children as young as 8.  Everyone was told how to
> handle the gates and no one had a problem with it.
>
> If you don't like that option, Phil's suggestion is great too.
> Just put a inverted U in each end of the conduit so that it doesn't fill
> with rain water.  Most any sort of plastic pipe or rubber or plastic hose
> will work fine.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pga2 at BasicISP.net
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:23 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Electric horse fence
>
> Mike,
> Why even bother with the different wire under the gate? Simply run the
> "hot" wire down the post in a plastic conduit and thus under the gate.
>
> Phil
>
> --- meulenms at gmx.com wrote:
>
> From: Mike <meulenms at gmx.com>
> To: ATIS <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: [AT] OT - Electric horse fence
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:47:47 -0400
>
> OK, so my wife rides horses, we bought a house that came with existing
> electric fences that looked like Homer Simpson put them together, they
> were that bad. We put up with them for two years, and this year, we were
> able to afford to re-do them for the paddock area. I'm to the stage of
> running new electric fencing. I put 12.5 gauge insulated wire buried
> under each gate, because I don't care for the kind that you just stretch
> across to keep the circuit live. My question is this. I cannot seem to
> find a connector, crimp of otherwise, to connect the 12.5 gauge wire to
> the 17 gauge aluminum wire that will be used on the rest of the fencing,
> which is 4x4 posts with 5/4 deck boards. Seems like I could just use a
> wire nut, but there has to be a better way. Any insight would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike M
>
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