The One Piece of Infrastructure I Rarely Talk About
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- We need this one thing to protect my property from its biggest threats!
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See, when we did our fence here in Ausyralia (only 6 feet), we cut, burnt & poisened everything 2 meters either side of the fence (including our neighbours side- clearing also acts as a fire break).
I also do an upper & lower solar/ battery powered fence to keep foxes, people & Drop Bears out of our 2.5 acres. I have added cameras on every fence corner (and another 50 meters further up), and the Llamas kick up a stink when ever something is in the lower paddock when it shouldnt be- humans included
Very nice.
Do you have a video where you talk about wild fire dangers and precautions.
That is my worse fear with living in a place like that.
As a child I was walking up a cattle fence. Noticed some insects landing on the electric portion of the fence. I thought "oh, it must be off". Very vivid memories of bad assumptions.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰 Good memories, great advice!!!! 🥰✌️👃
😂 glad you got over the shock
Some large fence chargers can pack quite a punch, especially when a fence is really clean and free of grounding vegetation.
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Thanks Curtis for sharing, sounds an essential barrier in keeping everyone safe, including the bears. We don't have wild bears here in Aotearoa but love the fact you have a Gallaghers electirc fence system that was invented just down the road here in Hamilton NZ, by Bill Gallagher in 1936. Funny how simple things can start as he only wanted to solve the problem of keeping his old horse from eating the tires off his car. Please keep sharing as love your style of video mixing education with your philosophy. Nga mihi James
Old horse eating the tires off his car!!! : D
Love the fortress fence👍.
Should check out Timeless Fence products. PVC T-posts with pre-drilled holes for electric hi-tensile wires. Will never rot and super easy to install. Check em out online, as a rancher it changed my life!
Even in my backyard in the city, I'm constantly battling skunks digging under my fence. I fill in one hole or pile up stones to fill it in, and they just dig a new one beside it. And that's only on less than 1/4 acre, a couple hundred feet of fence. I can't imagine dealing with 2,400 feet of fence!
A charging black bear is the quickest animal in N. America. When shooting always drop to the ground and shoot straight into it. If you shoot at one standing it will always be high and over because of their speed.
No side arm? Machete would be great for trimming back those branches.
I would have said that the hardest part about fencing is putting in the posts, but after building several hundred metres of exclusion fencing last year (rabbits and kangaroos are my problem) I say that tying high-tensile wire is by far the hardest part - a killer workout for your arms and wrists! Straining up that wire then really puts hair on your chest.
Brother, Thanks! I saw several nuances that can be applied to my own fences.
Those electric wires drive me crasy, I hate doing the cleaning. Sometimes just a few branches, somewhere (who knows where!!!) are causing problems.
Ok, too negative, they are great doing what they are supposed to do.
This looks really well made! My dad does contract fencing in Australia and the difference in quality build materials mean it can last for DECADES before getting loose or wobbly and won’t just fall apart within 3 years from rust 😂 of course may need some tightening and adjustments over time but nothing you can’t do yourself with a tutorial and a couple wrenches if the original wiring was good quality it will bend fine!
I'll say! Steer clear of chinesium wire. Absolute garbage. You get what you pay for and Waratah and Cyclone are worth it.
i would have a quad trail around entire fence for qwik weekly checks if not daily
I Was With Siblings & Friends's & As A 16 Year Old Teenager.
Nature Called.💧💦
I Went Behind A Shead
& Their Layed Flat Wire
Coiled Around Rather
Lose.
So I Squatted Down &
To My Surprise I Got Zapped. ⚡⚡⚡
I Was Totally Surprised.🤸
" Ouch❗"
And Every🌎ne Got A Big
Laugh, & Much Laughter.
That Was A Humbling
Experience. 😳
You never watched Jurassic Park, did you? 😐
😂😂😂😂
My first thought too 😂
Or maybe he did 😏
HAHAHAHA, best comment
Fun part is when you feed the Terex
Fencing is critical. I'm surprised, however, that either you or your fencer didn't clear back ALL vegetation a lot further back. Because otherwise, inevitably a tree will fall on the fence.
First class fence. Thx for sharing!
That’s a heck of a fence! We live on the Mexico/USA border and have jaguar, humans and bear. Problem is I can’t seem to get anyone willing to BUILD our fence. No one wants to work anymore.😢
A bit of irony being at the border, unable to get your fence built, with a bunch of illegals coming by, they're generally willing to work on just that kind of project. Don't know about a border fence though
@@pacomaciasarrate6809 unless the person aint willing to pay for it... prob want to offer 5 dollars an hour 😂😂😂
@@ckennedy109637 I'm willing to bet that's not the case. It's the contractors that get to choose from a labour pool that allows them to stay competitive, make a profit and more importantly, pay high taxes, state, federal and a series of fees and make various investments paying the corresponding interests.
Try grab the wire while barefoot that’s exciting times I tell ya 🤣 I was pretty impressed! Brings the concept of ‘grounding’ to a whole new level lmao
A dog with a good bark works great for us. 2 Pyrenees and no wildlife. Our neighbors all have bears getting into their trash but we've never seen even a sign. Chickens free range and the coop hasn't been closed up and secured in a few years with no casualties. However we are just below the tree line - juniper and sage brush scrub with patches of timber on the northern slopes so less cover for predators.
I'm just curious any reason why you don't put heavy mulch around the perimeter? At least 3 ft on each side? You can push it 5 ft and make it look like a jogging area around the perimeter.
I use loppers to clean out the fence rows...ugh that's all hard work;)
Get an tension alert for your system
Working your perimeter more often is paramount importance
Ah yes... The memories of being grounded in ways I will never forget. 🚫⚡😱⚡🚫
You didn’t mention what 2400’ of fence cost you CAD$. I have been moving portable electric fence and batteries and solar panels around for 2 years now for my goats just hoping that some day I will be able to afford/ find someone to build me a fence.
Curtis I would spray that fence for vegetation control 2-3 times a year about 3' out on each side plus hose down any brush getting close and that will eliminate any weed eating that you'd ever have to do, plus keep the trees/brush back. Use glysophate, 3 way, plus a pre emergent like imazapyr or flumioxazin all at full rate to stop things from regrowing so fast, plus add a sticker and some improve to increase the products performance. Also as another stated I'd make a trail inside the fence around the entire thing to help facilitate this and fence checks with a quad or something of the sort. Get that thing down to bare dirt and keep it that way it will be so much easier to maintain, if things are aloud to grow into it you are gonna have a mess.. I have a landscape business and this is how we deal with fences, no trimmers needed.
Spray round up? No dude. You got the wrong guy.
This has to be a joke.......... dang, he hasn't got a clue.....
Won’t the trees in the fence increase pressure as they increase in diameter? I would be nervous having those as strainers, but they would certainly be strong.
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Danger. Every 15 feets
I think a bill hook would be handy on that first pass, great idea though, I dig it
I’ve taken a hit from that same energiser before, with my whole ass earthed (as I was sitting), OUCH!!
I have to admit that I think of the pretty horrific story from suburban Los Angeles, if I recall, of a large male cougar who was protected by the authorities, who came across a pen of very costly llamas being raised for their wool, protected by an electrified 9 foot fence and a back up generator. But . . . there came a night when the owners were absent and the lightning struck and took out both the electricity and the generator and that cougar was in the neighborhood with the insanely bad luck that sometimes pops up. He jumped on the shed inside the fence and the llamas went berserk with his smell and broke out though the door was locked. He killed them all in a blood lust frenzy.
Can you please speak to the cost of the fence ? Also length of the posts purchased. 10’ 12’ or 16’ ? Thank you so much. I’m homesteading just south of you in Montana
2400 linear feet, 6 gates, 2 lines of electric $40,000 CAD.
Nice to have for a thought but, if something wants in it will find a way. I use the largest TSC CONTROLLER FROM THEIR SELF AND IT WILL LIGHT YA UP! ;-)
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The Lawn Ginja cited a study that said mulch doesn't decompose very well at altitude - could be worth looking into.
He doesn’t seem to be more than 5000 feet. Even the top of Whistler is only 8000-9000 feet if I remember right.
@@addiroids well, the more you move to the east of the Pacific/West Coast in Canada, the more "mile high" cities you have, that have high altitudes themselves, yet alone being near the top of a smaller mountain like Curtis is.
I think you might be better to place 12 inchs of fencing off bottom of fence like folks do around bottom of chicken coups to prevent digging into the coup.
thats an awesome fence and alot of it.
Dont you have BIG dogs to at least warn you of predators if not ward off the predators?
Livestock guardian dogs are game changers in the mountains 👍 Even if you dont have much livestock, and used for human protection
Wood Chip the fence line so you dont have to mow every year.
Curtis is it practical or even feasible to build an aerated pond to grow fish for you, your wife and two children?
Anything is feasible. It all comes down to priorities.
What is your budget man? You must realise that this is totally out of about 99% of most people s budget. It looks awesome but man you must be loaded. I coped a lot of flack last time I commented about being envious of your budget. A lot of people bashed me for it. But I will say it again. I m am opus of your means. And just so you all know my property is kick ass so I m not jealous. And I work my arse off to build and maintain it. Don t take this the wrong way man, I love your channel and videos because I love to see how other people are doing things. But you have to know that you are not representative of most people. Peace and good luck. I ll see you on the other side.
And i bet that fence still can't keep cats in. Someone will someday win the Nobel Prize for figuring out how to fence in cats..
That is going to be so much work! The money that cost is all gone to wast as soon as that forest grows back. You'll keep deer out at the most. Your fence will be grounded out and wont make a difference to any animal. I wish you luck trimming both sides of that fence line 2 times a year(minimum)
Yeah no, unless it’s 500k volts no wooden branch is going to ground an entire electric fence, it’s mostly a behavioural deterrent anyway, bears or cats only gonna get zapped twice before they never go near the fence again, live or not ⚡️
They seem to have good luck in Alaska with grizzly bears, using electric fencing as a deterrent. Definitely better chances than no fence, when your family's wellbeing is on the line
We have grizzly bears at work. 2 sows at least 5 cubs this year around 400 workers. Never an incident yet, no fences.
Man if I lived in America I’d have automatic bear turrets that blow holes in em on sight 😅 I’ve seen Leonardo DiCaprio get ripped to bits by a bear no thankyouuuuuuu
Ya, homesteads are work. That's life in the bush, but I'd never trade it for living in he city.
CURTIS, when you get shocked is it like a buildup of charge then a big WHHOOOMP half second later?
thats how i remember it from my childhood on the farm ,lol
Ya sort of. It's brutal.
Did you mean 10' posts set 2' in the ground to make an 8' high fence? Doesn't look 10' high in the video but I guess it could be hard to tell. I'm jealous as I am unable to find 10' round posts anywhere in my state, only 8' which is a bit low for deer.
I doubt 2’ in the ground would be enough in the BC mountains. Even in Ontario they want 4’ in the ground.
Boy you would have a shock
At my place.
doesn't deep snow ground out the lower wire?
Yes, but bears are sleeping in the winter, so it doesn't matter.
@@offgridcurtisstone ooooh, so the whole system goes down with deep snow, or the top and bottom wire are isolated so the top wire is still active? I guess if there's no garden or bears in the winter you could just turn it off? begs the question then, are the top and bottom wires isolated in a way that the top or bottom or some section can become grounded out and the rest still operates normally? this is such a fascinating detail. sorry, but fault tolerance is in my dna. I'm always thinking about the the way thing are going to work in real life, and in different situations. PS gotta say, I love "off grid Curtis Stone" even more than "urban farmer Curtis Stone", LOL
The two wires don't operate separately. I turn it all off once there's so and I don't even close the gates. I don't mind deer or other animals coming through during the winter because all the gardens are in the greenhouses. The main purpose of the fence it to keep bears and deer out during the growing season.
If the electrified fence hurts so bad, how many volts are in the wires?
40 acres eh? Did it come with a mule by chance? 😉
No way not going to do the Job.
Try
50 KVA 3 phases
On a riser of 400 amps
Than you can modulate the Hertz.
Have fun 😁
Up amps and watts
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Where you said 'sand', instead use 'GRAVEL'.
The man who doesn't believe in borders, flags or the nation state. But great job on that fence. Nothing spookier than rinsing your dinner plate and all you see is deep dark isolated forest with something watching you.
? The bigger the Mass
The more effective ?
On airplane mode of course. Lol nice, the people that know, know.
2 times a week
Crush
must’ve been pretty inexpensive too !
Fences are surprisingly pricey
Holy shit thats not a fire hazard?
Robust.
Why air plane mode?
So I don't radiate my balls.
Why did you make a point of carrying your phone on airplane Mode? ✈️
For safety.
Also, crazy humans, too
or desperate ones
If desperate humans see this... It's just a sign to continue further
@@MB-jg4tr better in the snowline is his families best defence against the growing hordes of colonizers
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don't weed wack the poison oak er you'll have a bad week or two 😬😆
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