Electric fence stakes

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
We had a few cows that learnt thatver the years. And had a few (ancient) ‘live’ stakes that came out when retraining was required. Worked a treat.👍

The trick was to nip it in the bud before they taught any others to do it, just like lambs that learn to get through fencing.
I always loved the response the late John Cherrington was given by a Kiwi farmer on being asked, how he managed to train his sheep to stay put with just one live wire. Kiwi reached in the Ute and grabbed his rifle from the rack and told Cherrington, "they get out just once...."

I suspect we have all felt like doing that once ot twice....
 
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Mc115reed

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I always loved the response the late John Cherrington was given by a Kiwi farmer on being asked how he managed to train his sheep to stay put with just one live wire. Kiwi reached in the Ute and grabbed his rifle from the rack and told Cherrington, "they get out just once...."

I suspect we have all felt like doing that once ot twice....
Iv had my sheep behind 1 wire a few times tbf .. aslong as they’ve food infront of them they’re happy, it’s when they’re looking for food they’ll go through it
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Not sure if I should put this in here or in the Bodges thread.....
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2 wood screws required to make one stake out of 2 broken ones..
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neilo

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Location
Montgomeryshire
Not sure if I should put this in here or in the Bodges thread.....
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2 wood screws required to make one stake out of 2 broken ones..
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That makes me fair proud. Well done fellow tightwad.👍






But no, not even I’ve resorted to that yet. Screws are way too expensive, unless you’ve got a bucketful of old ones picked from the ashes in the grate of course.🤐
 

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
That makes me fair proud. Well done fellow tightwad.👍






But no, not even I’ve resorted to that yet. Screws are way too expensive, unless you’ve got a bucketful of old ones picked from the ashes in the grate of course.🤐

Trouble is this year I seem to have a cohort of ewes who are training for the grand national….. any spliced stakes would just encourage them !
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
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The green 1s second from the right
Right so the far left is the new style economy post which is around 90p-£1.10 which me and @Mc115reed really like on long runs and very quick to get the wire off with if on a quad.
left blue is the highest quality post which is now over £3/post. Thankfully my dad when buys in 2017 and bought 600 odd of them for £1/piece.

the 2 on the right are the old style economy posts or standard posts as they were back then. Number 3 hole on them is the same as number 4 hole from the bottom of the expensive high quality post.
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Right so the far left is the new style economy post which is around 90p-£1.10 which me and @Mc115reed really like on long runs and very quick to get the wire off with if on a quad.
left blue is the highest quality post which is now over £3/post. Thankfully my dad when buys in 2017 and bought 600 odd of them for £1/piece.

the 2 on the right are the old style economy posts or standard posts as they were back then. Number 3 hole on them is the same as number 4 hole from the bottom of the expensive high quality post.
Well, when they ask you to go on here........
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........ we all know what your specialist subject is going to be (y)
 

DieselRob

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North Yorkshire
Right so the far left is the new style economy post which is around 90p-£1.10 which me and @Mc115reed really like on long runs and very quick to get the wire off with if on a quad.
left blue is the highest quality post which is now over £3/post. Thankfully my dad when buys in 2017 and bought 600 odd of them for £1/piece.

the 2 on the right are the old style economy posts or standard posts as they were back then. Number 3 hole on them is the same as number 4 hole from the bottom of the expensive high quality post.
That’s it, the problem is that the top 2 wires I set use the large slotted hole in the premium post so they’re not as handy for me
 

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