If people don't currently have 3 ground rods 10 feet apart driven 6 feet into the ground, that's something they can add to their system? Not people live where I live, they can't. Where I live, we have this thing called bedrock. It starts about 3 inches to 3 feet into the ground. You're not going to get 6 feet of ground rod into the ground anywhere, much less 3 places spaced 10 feet apart. You're especially not going to get that in enough locations that you don't have to much less in enough locations that you don't have to string out hundreds of yards of fence that deer, hogs, bears, falling tree branches, and other random things are going to knock down daily just so you can have a couple hundred feet around where your cattle actually need to be. Where would she recommend that people go to learn more about this? Nowhere because she doesn't know anything. To get out of admitting that she doesn't know anything, she recommends that people go to an in person fencing class that isn't going to say anything else about electric fences. Why did you people waste everyone's time by making a video that says the same thing it says on the box when you buy any electric fence? Worthless crap like this should be filed away in a worthless crap section of the internet. Stop wasting people's time.
Relax friend, no video can cover every single person's circumstances, so most of them try to address what the majority of viewers will be dealing with so they can help the most people. There's no need to be outraged that every video online isn't catered to you personally. You could have just asked a civil question about your circumstances, and maybe someone would come along and give you some advice. If it were me I would get the ground rods in as far as I can, but then also run alternating ground/hot wires on the fence such that an animal is likely to touch both, making it unnecessary for the current to travel through the ground for the circuit to be completed.
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If people don't currently have 3 ground rods 10 feet apart driven 6 feet into the ground, that's something they can add to their system? Not people live where I live, they can't. Where I live, we have this thing called bedrock. It starts about 3 inches to 3 feet into the ground. You're not going to get 6 feet of ground rod into the ground anywhere, much less 3 places spaced 10 feet apart. You're especially not going to get that in enough locations that you don't have to much less in enough locations that you don't have to string out hundreds of yards of fence that deer, hogs, bears, falling tree branches, and other random things are going to knock down daily just so you can have a couple hundred feet around where your cattle actually need to be.
Where would she recommend that people go to learn more about this? Nowhere because she doesn't know anything. To get out of admitting that she doesn't know anything, she recommends that people go to an in person fencing class that isn't going to say anything else about electric fences.
Why did you people waste everyone's time by making a video that says the same thing it says on the box when you buy any electric fence? Worthless crap like this should be filed away in a worthless crap section of the internet. Stop wasting people's time.
Relax friend, no video can cover every single person's circumstances, so most of them try to address what the majority of viewers will be dealing with so they can help the most people. There's no need to be outraged that every video online isn't catered to you personally. You could have just asked a civil question about your circumstances, and maybe someone would come along and give you some advice.
If it were me I would get the ground rods in as far as I can, but then also run alternating ground/hot wires on the fence such that an animal is likely to touch both, making it unnecessary for the current to travel through the ground for the circuit to be completed.