Tw@! Luckily I’ve never had that problem apart from a 6 year old off the caravan site slid on wet grass on his bike into triple strand and he was there for 15minutes by the time they came to the house and we got there to turn the battery offI would only use it on high for training, then turn it down to low (2-2.5J). It would drain a tractor battery too quickly on high.
A 2J fencer will kill lambs if they get tangled in it, and I can't see that a big one would be any different. Used a big mains one back home and that only ever killed anything when they got tangled in net, after some eejit left the fencer off at the farm, then remembered it several hours later.
My dad is adamant that they have to be 6 yards, I do 8metres usually and no problems with either.
Haha said in The Godfathers voice in my head that memes amazing..
Used to use Gallagher or Rutland ones in the past, but I think you pay for the name and they don't last any longer IME.
The make doesn't really matter, it's only a fairly simple pulse generator at the end of the day. I have a collection of several different makes, but the VOSS from https://www.electric-fence.co.uk/ seem very good value for money. I bought one of these https://www.electric-fence.co.uk/voss-farming-sirus-8-12v-mains-energiser.html from them last year, just so that I had one I could use for training if needed. It would be ideal for training your problem ones on high power (assuming you don't have access to a decent mains fencer somewhere), then switch it to low (2J) for normal use.
Whatever you do, you don't want to hang around. a few getting out soon teach the whole lot to do it.
Have you stood and watched to see how they are going through? If they are sticking their heads down and pushing, you could try 2 wires close together at the bottom, one earth and on live. If they are jumping it, just get the rifle and be done with it.
+1 for Voss energisers.
The pulses seem to be quicker than my Mvf unit
Had some exlana ewe lambs not fully respecting a 3.5j fence......bought a Voss 7.5j unit...., that learnt them!
They literally ran halfway across the 5 ac field when they touched the fence
I used to have a Polish ‘training’ fencer like that. I can’t think of any that got out twice, but it did make quite a job of getting the escapees back in.
Interestingly they are usually the ones that walk the permit er looking at it, looking for a way round, and will sometimes figure the weak spot is the fence post and try and headbutt the stake down.... but at 7 joules with a shaved neck, they give up sooner or later. I only had 2 this year off the Draft ewes, and one is in my freezer now - she developed a route through a hedge, down the lane, along a ditch into a neighbours field, across that and back into another neighbours field in a huge round about wayb and would then return. Could figfure out problems pretty well, should of given her to some students to study. Alas she fleshed out.
