electric fence on 48 acres

Every year or two we get a cow that will learn to walk across our cattle gap which sucks because the whole point is to have a way to enter and exit without fooling with a gate.

When that happens we use this across the gap until we can haul the cow off to the sale. Cattle gap walking is an immediate sentence to be sent to the packer.

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American Farm Works 16 ft. Electric Fence Spring Gate Kit

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Our cattle gap is right by the barn so it's hard wired to 110 volt plug eliminating the need for solar panels etc. if it were more remote.

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Pic makes me tingle and not in a good way

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Plugged into a wall outlet it packs a punch.

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what are you gates like? is there a schematic online you can share?

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Shitty lol. I’m not good at it.

I’d recommend those spring gates mentioned or some electric rope with tpost. I haven’t had the time to redo mine, but I may switch and build the ones Greg Judy made with electric rope.

The picture below shows how I just used brace wire to attach a new post onto an existing fence. The broken post becomes a dropper basically.



This is how far off an old barbed wire fence we put it.



We used the A frames. They are the cheapest and easiest. Dug two holes with the augur and I hand trenched so the angle would fit.





Like I mentioned, they may break, but it’s so much easier to repair than a standard T post and barbed wire. It’s also cheaper per linear ft to build as you can put tpost every 25-30’ on flat land vs the 8–10’ barbed wire fence. You use less tposts.