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Lots of them around here to keep stock from going through the fence.


The majority of the "Bull Zappers" around here aren't merely pulsed
on/off, but give short (say 10ms) "zaps" of 5KV followed by longer delays
-- about two to three a second, or so.

Their primary uses here are to keep deer OUT of areas, and to keep cattle
from leaning on the fences; not really to keep the cattle IN, per se, but
to keep their continous desire to eat through the fence on the "greener
grass" down, so they don't damage the lines.

A ****ed-off bull can clear a 5' fence easily, anyway, so it won't do
much to keep them in the pasture if they want out.

Because of the constant maintenance work repairing the live runs, it's
about the same cost to just kill a 4' apron around the outside of the
fence with a soil sterilant. The former needs to be fixed about twice a
month at low cost (but labor and trips out), the latter - with sterilants
- has to re-done about once a year at significant cost for the chemicals,
but hardly any labor per rod of fence line.

I don't have either method employed. I've only got about 80 rod of fence
to maintain, so I just mow a 10' stripe outside the line right down to
scalped every time I mow the front yard. Ends up working just as well.
If there's nothing attractive for them to reach for, they stay off the
wire.

LLoyd


LLoyd