Horses, Horsey People and Electric Fences

[Willy Nilly]

Dear Horsey People,

Why are you so incompetent with anything to do with fencing your animals in?

Why is it that a 16 year old on the first year of his/her YTS at agricultural college could built and maintain an electric fence, yet this completely mystifies even the finest minds in the equine world?

Why is it that if electric fence was built with no expense spared, using the finest materials known to fencing man and a direct line was installed taking all of the power from Sizewell B, there would be zero volts on the fence?

Do any of you with horses know what this is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Farm-Care-Electric-Fencing... what it does or how to use it?

Why the fk do you insist on using that god awful poly tape stuff that is utter ste?

[anonymous-user]

So they can see it?

[Willy Nilly]

desolate said:

So they can see it?

If there was any fking power going through the ing stuff the fking animals wouldn't need to see the bd and they'd get a shock instead, but there never is any fking power going through the fking stuff, because it's all broken, lying on the floor and or wrapped about a gate, the fking water trough (I st you not) and earthing out, so the tting things just push through the fking useless st.

[anonymous-user]

We have 4 horses at home and one out with a rider.

Of all the things I like to to rant about I hadn't thought about the fking electric fence.

But now you mention that fking white tape is a bd to store and impossible to unravel to use again.

So on reflection - crack on.

stty stuff.

[Willy Nilly]

desolate said:

We have 4 horses at home and one out with a rider.

Of all the things I like to to rant about I hadn't thought about the fking electric fence.

But now you mention that fking white tape is a bd to store and impossible to unravel to use again.

So on reflection - crack on.

stty stuff.

There's the issue. Why don't people with horses maintain them? I have a load of wire wrapped around my topper that it found today topping a horse paddock, when the bd tape which probably broke 5 years ago because there was zero volts going through it, got wrapped around Dobbin, then broke it, so it was left to get over grown by the unmaintained grass.

[tumble dryer]

You're entirely welcome to touch your tongue on mine.

Roughly a 4 mile circuit holding in 20-30 of the mutts, whilst also delivering 4k volts to the horse walker - should any of them decide to try and stop it / sit on it.

Truthfully, (FLAME ALERT!!) I think it's a woman thing. I live with one who does horses for a living and is really good at it. Micro focuses whilst peripherally scans. If nothing's screaming Alert, it would be left till it did.

[Andy_mr2sc]

Completely agree with this. My OH has had horses for 25 yrs and still assumes if it's all joined it must be working. Constantly stretches the tape tight so it breaks the metal strands and is convinced the horses won't go near it because 'they respect it.' Right. Why was it then yesterday morning I spent two hours repairing some post and rail fence that they'd lent on and snapped because the electric fence wasn't working. It's taking some convincing but I'm slowly converting her to using stranded galvanised wire instead as I think it's much more reliable.

[Willy Nilly]

Andy_mr2sc said:

Completely agree with this. My OH has had horses for 25 yrs and still assumes if it's all joined it must be working. Constantly stretches the tape tight so it breaks the metal strands and is convinced the horses won't go near it because 'they respect it.' Right. Why was it then yesterday morning I spent two hours repairing some post and rail fence that they'd lent on and snapped because the electric fence wasn't working. It's taking some convincing but I'm slowly converting her to using stranded galvanised wire instead as I think it's much more reliable.

Dad used to work in an ag supplier shop that sold fencing stuff. A horsey woman came in for some fencing material and bought that tape stuff. Dad asked her if she needed a battery or energiser as well. Why? she asked, this is electric. Where the fk do you think the electricity comes from?

[Mr. Fastidious]

Is it just me or does anyone else get turned on by a woman riding a horse, i think it's the movement!

[Simpo Two]

tumble dryer said:

You're entirely welcome to touch your tongue on mine.

That should be re-written really!

[Timmy40]

Mr. Fastidious said:

Is it just me or does anyone else get turned on by a woman riding a horse, i think it's the movement!

I reckon it's the boots, jodhpurs and riding crop myself. Shame they are mostly metal, fat or fat and mental.

[Andy_mr2sc]

Timmy40 said:

Mr. Fastidious said:

Is it just me or does anyone else get turned on by a woman riding a horse, i think it's the movement!

I reckon it's the boots, jodhpurs and riding crop myself. Shame they are mostly metal, fat or fat and mental.

Agree with all the above. It's the rising trot motion that does it for me. Just for the record my OH isn't fat, just mental...!