Sorry sir, it's illegal. Ace hardware craziness

[wdfifteen]

Ive gotten that in the past, "We can't do that, it's against the law." They should just stop at, "We can't do that."

[Borders Reivers]

Crowbob We didn't have a supply of telephone posts so we used railroad cross ties for corner posts. We lived on the right-of-way for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (the Katy). For most fence posts we used Bois d'arc posts. Bois d'arc wood lasts FOREVER even set in wet ground of seeps. Of course we also got to deal with rapier-like Bois d'arc thorns and like honey locust thorns will penetrate even thick tractor tires.

oldE We tried electric fencing for a few years but for some reason stopped using it and went back to barbed wire. (I think my grandfather got tired of getting shocked.) During that time a few cows got out on the highway and we had to round them up. Those were the days of riding horses on the range.

[oldE]

I think the secret to a good electric fence is the ground. I know if your soil is too dry, the critters don't get enough of a jolt to have enough effect.

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Les

[Borders Reivers]

Originally Posted by oldE

I think the secret to a good electric fence is the ground. I know if your soil is too dry, the critters don't get enough of a jolt to have enough effect.

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Les

Summers here are pretty dry. Soil is expansive black clay. Prairie gets earth cracks several feet deep. Black tidal waves of mole crickets live down there. Raised a lot of dry land wheat.

ETA Beside the cow/calf and replacement stocker cattle operation we raised grains and row-cropped cotton. To this day I hate riding an open combine harvesting vetch. Chaff from vetch burns your skin like fiberglass insulation.

Best back at ya'

[Jolly Amaranto]

I get my "bob whar" from a pusher at the lumber yard in a small town near my property in central Texas. Just bought a roll a few months ago. The standard stuff, not the Goutcho wire that I had been using. I hate that stuff. It has a memory that won't quit. Like a spring, it wants to return to its coiled state. However, lately I have been installing woven wire field fence to discourage the feral hogs from around the buildings. They could knock it down if they took a notion but seem to just move on. I just hung it over the old wire fence and seems to do the trick.

[Borders Reivers]

Originally Posted by oldE

I think the secret to a good electric fence is the ground. I know if your soil is too dry, the critters don't get enough of a jolt to have enough effect.

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Les

Another thought... Have a couple lightning rods from an old frame "house on the prairie" where my father was born. Also have the six-foot long round copper bar that was used for the ground electrode. Don't know how big a ground bar you use where you are but that's what's used around here.

Funny thing... Both lightning rods have removable copper tips. One tip is melted over from being struck by a big bolt. The two story prairie house the rods came from got hit by lightning and burned to the ground. Dunno if that was what caused the fire but maybe.

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[Rick Lee]

The Ace Hardware in N. Scottsdale sells ARs, handguns and ammo. I'll have to check on barbed wire.