Electric fence lead out wire/cable

Conmaicne Mara

I made an embarrassing omission on my temporary electric fence plan, never had one before so never thought of a lead out wire/cable :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Now I am looking to get away with inflicting as little added cost as possible.

Trouble is while my fencing for paddocks is temporary to tie in with existing permanent sheep wire fences, my energiser will remain static in one location for security.

So do I buy double insulated underground lead out cable (€50 per 100 meters on agridirect - would need two rolls) and black water pipe to bury it in (would need 170 meters min).

Or do I think of the future and possibly electrifying the entire boundary and...

Use a single strand of wire to carry the electric around my boundary edge and along internal fencing for approx 350 meters, would need wire and insulators...

Question presents itself, would that wire arc the electric onto the existing sheep fences I'd run it on top of? Just off the top of my head I'd say there's frig all room on the tops of a lot of stakes as I buried them fairly deep in the boundary wall.

Boundary wall single wire is probably my preferred option on cost and future thinking. Just don't know if it's possible or not........

Feck it anyway

Ah Devil in the details.....

mf240

You can buy long screw in insulators that will bring the wire out away from sheep wire.

Wainwright09

They're called outriggers,cost 2-3 euro each,i think.
A cheaper option for those on a budget would be make your own.
If you can find some Black 1.5inch water pipe,(hydradare) laying around unused.
Cut pieces off at whatever distance you want the wire away from the posts,
Drill 5mm hole straight thru the side of pipe 1 inch in from end,
As you run the wire out thread it thru hole in pipe at each post or every second one,
Then nail or screw pipe down onto top of post.(you may need to drill more holes in pipe for this)
I've done this before and it's still working fine.Only thing is i had the pipe laying around and i had bench saw for cutting pipe up and pillar drill for drilling it.
If you have to buy a roll specially for the job you're probably better off buying Outriggers.
Roll of pipe wont be cheap and less fluting around drilling holes etc.
But where theres a will theres a way....

Rovi

The strand of wire on outriggers is probably the best way to go, 170m of underground cable would be pretty expensive to buy and bury.
Be aware that if using hydrodare, a powerful fencer will blow through it in a year or two. There's a lot of carbon used in its manufacture (that's what makes it nice and 'black'), and carbon is an excellent conductor.
I'm sure it'd last longer when used as stand-off insulators (rather than running the wire through it), but unless I already had it on hand and was willing to replace it as needed, I certainly wouldn't go buying it for this purpose.

kowtow

We use a single strand of wire on 10 or 12 inch screw in offsets (outriggers?) to bring the current up to the yard - were we have a semi permanent electric fence enclosing the area around the old cubicle shed. Where the line goes under tracks etc. we have a standard leadout buried.

It's primitive, and it does have a bit of a look of a prison camp where it runs along the wall of the tank, but it works well enough and it's easy to see and repair / replace when we need to get it out of the way.

I think I bought a big pack of offsets for a lot less than €3 a piece but I don't have the ticket to hand at the moment -

Conmaicne Mara

Will polywire do to carry the current?

I bought some outriggers on Ebay just now.

kowtow

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Will polywire do to carry the current?

I bought some outriggers on Ebay just now.

We used polywire, although might depend on how much fence you are putting on the end of it (ours is only a branch to do the small yard)..

I had to go around / over some corners and tensioning wire would have been a pain on the offsets.

Maybe try polywire first and test to see what the fence is like?

Conmaicne Mara

It'll be bringing power to two temporary fences no longer than 130 meters each. The farthest I'd have to bring current, at this point in time, is 250 meters away.

I presume, for permanence, I'd have to use high tensile wire, I don't have a spinning jenny as yet so that'd be another cost I'd avoid in the short term.