Putting up electric fence - have some questions

13 years ago

I am going to put a fence around some young apple trees I am planting. To keep the deer off.

I was going to put the controller in my barn.

Then I need to run the wires out to the first pole.

For the power wire, I see I have to buy some insulated wire.

But, for the ground wire out of the barn, can this just be buried?

I was going to start putting a ground rod at the first pole of the fence.

Can I also have a mix of ground rods and running a ground wire along the fence?

Comments (2)

brendasue
13 years ago
We have 2 solar chargers and 1 AC electric fence. All have the ground wires within 10 feet of the charger.

The 1 plug in charger does have an underground wire running to the charger in a shed, but it runs to the charger then the rods within 10 feet of the charger.

We installed these 6 years ago so I don't remember the details of WHY we did those placements, only that it is the set-up. Your manual should detail the placement & footage.

For about $250.00 you could do the solar charger, just get one with Joules and you wouldn't need to run the underground wires.

Brendasue
theedudenator
Original Author
13 years ago
The cost of the wire is much cheaper vs the solar charging type.

I also need to figure out what to use for a ground rod.
I am not sure I spend the money on 6 rods!
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