[AT] OT - Electric horse fence

[charlie hill]

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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