Beware the electric fence

[ki4itv]

I met Representative Gary Tauchen on an airplane one time. He never talked about peeing on his electric fence on his WI dairy farm. All he could talk about was unfunded mandates.

Obviously too busy peeing on his constituents to bother with a fence, eh?

[KB3LAZ]

It depends on what kind of fence charger you install. I have had many over the years, and the worst seem to be the pulsing types. One of them I had would hit the wire with 7kv for 1/10 second, every second. That sumbitch really hurt! Many of them just tingle, and are down in the 700v range.

Well ours was similar. You could feel it pulse. It would take a break from shocking for just a bit. Under a second probably but you could feel it. Feels like getting touched with a stun gun. When the little bolts of electricity snap back and forth.

[X-Rated]

Obviously too busy peeing on his constituents to bother with a fence, eh?

Trickle down, brother. Trickle down.

[W3WN]

Circa 1980-81, I worked at WGMR-FM, first as morning DJ, then later as PD/OM as well. Since I had no car, and buses didn't run at 5 AM, I had to walk from the house down to the studio.

At the time, there was a small horse farm right behind the rental house. Easiest & fastest path was to go into the backyard, walk along the fence to a small section of woods, then cut down through the woods to North Atherton St.

That winter, the fence came partly down. Of course, I cut THROUGH the small pasture, instead of walking the perimeter.

Well, one spring morning, I kinda half notice that the fence wire is back up. And then I brushed it. Didn't need a cup of coffee to wake up THAT morning... they'd not only fixed the fence, but powered it up. Whoa!

... I went back to walking the perimeter. And made sure I didn't lose my balance along the way!

[kf0rt]

I've neither touched nor peed upon an electric fence. Never had the desire. :rofl:

[HUGH]

This could be the next big shocker.

Now do you stay in the car, avoid those nearby power lines, throw down your golf clubs and run, grab your portable radio and leave that expensive antenna behind or what?