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keh

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this is a new one on me.

I was carrying a couple of sticks to throw across the fence out of the yard. Heard the electric fence clicking at an insulator. Could not at first see any problem but moved the wire with a stick and it would stop clicking momentarily. Now, I had just had chicken litter spread, actually the pure stuff from a layer operation. Due to humidity and the layer operator not having it moved often enough, the manure was soupy and the spreader truck had slung a wad against the insulator and it had spread down to the next barbed wire which was nailed to the post. Scraped the insulaor clean and the clicking stopped.

KEH
 
Learned about this problem 60 years ago.Birds sit on top of fence posts and crap on insulators.Porclain insulators do crack and leak.Black are best insulators if you use plastic.
 
When my brother had cattle his problem was motorcycle and horse people cutting the wire. Just don't step over the low wire even if you think you can. Stan
 
I've had grasshoppers crawl off the post and across the insulator and get zapped. Then it's frozen there with an arc snapping across it's back.

We were combining beans in a field adjacent to the pasture. The wagons were in the pasture up close to the electric fence and I'd reach across the fence with the combine auger to fill the wagons. The neighbor came walking across the pasture to say HI and when he came to the electric fence he pushed down on the wire to climb over it. The wire was hot (duh) so he got bit and was standing there shaking his hands, and then he cussed me out for not warning him about the fence. Well the stock cows were standing there and the wire was on bright yellow insulators. Shouldn't that have told him something? Jim
 
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