Adding Electric Fence to our Pasture, so we can do rotational grazing.

We are adding a single wire of electric fencing to the inside of our pasture fencing. We will be able to use this wire to power up temporary electric fence and rotational graze the pasture.
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[@tlenker]

Good job mentioning Rural King several times. You’ll have that tractor deal in no time!

[@CountryViewAcres]

I don't think that's going to happen.

[@ronaldlee2376]

@@CountryViewAcres Can't hurt.

[@tlenker]

Outdoors with the Morgan’s had fewer than 50k followers when RK gave them a tractor. Plus, you are close to their HQ. I have my fingers crossed anyway.

[@CountryViewAcres]

I think he was around 20k subs. I just started following him a month before he got the tractors. It seemed to help out his channel a lot.

[@PlanetMojo]

Our horses check the electric fence with their chin whiskers. If the fence is is off, they will try to break out. We got a new foal last year who has used her chin several times (and got shocked) because she has no chin whiskers yet 😁 Pro tip on the Dare insulators id to replace the nail with a long screw that is made for treated wood. The nail is not, and will rot out pretty quick. We just replaced a dozen of them after collecting up the horses that escaped. Also, just use direct bury wire (the gray stuff) to go from the barn to the fence, and I use a lighted switch in my machine shed to show if the fence is on or not. I'll be making a video soon on how to test your fence in the winter when the ground is frozen and you can't use the type fence tester like you used. It will come in handy, believe me 😊

[@CountryViewAcres]

I used a stainless ring shank nail. Not the nails that came with them. I should be good.

[@gussoefje6430]

You can buy reverse t post clips for the electric wire. They are just a bit more expensive I think. And for those longer insulators you can hook them on the wire first then hook them on the t post. Use a flat head screw driver if it’s hard to get them on. Good video though

[@Mountaintoptractor]

It looks like the yellow 6" insulators your using you could leave the wire in place tight and stretched, then take the yellow insulator and turn it 45 degrees and slide it onto the wire, then clip to T post? Might work dunno. I have a similiar project coming up, had never seen a Grapple, will definately get one. Thanks.

[@RobertSmith-xy8ti]

I had the same problem with wavy fence and the electric wire touching. I cut some pieces of 3/4" pvc and cut slots in the end for the woven fence and the electric wire to act as a spacer and push the electric wire away from the woven wire.

[@johnsadler8637]

Good workable solution, especially if one can’t find the longer posts.

[@danielheartsill4269]

Isn't it nice how hindsight is always 20/20? If I had a dollar for every time I have done almost the same thing, I would be a millionaire. You still did a great job on everything you do so don't fret over not getting everything perfect.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Evan and Rebecca nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video homestead and nice fencing. 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@jamespenton9874]

Hello when you have electric fencing when getting to your gates you can run a electric fence wire under ground put the wire in PVC piping longer electric insulator

[@jamespenton9874]

Hey James here I've done it twice putting electric line throw PVC piping and it work but when burried under ground glue all your tubing you will need 4 elbow and 3 straight piping of PVC NOW WHEN GOING TO PUT WIRE THREW THE TUBBING 2 ELBOW FACING OUT THE ON EITHER END ONE GOES LEFT AND OTHER GO RIGHT ME I FORGOT TO GLUE MIND AND GOT WATER IN THE BOTTOM PIPE I HAD TO UNDO ONE END TO LET WATER OUT

[@oxfletch]

They make reverse t-post insulators to come off the back side of a T-post. They're kind of a pain, and seem a bit brittle, but they do work. Best not on a cold day or they seem to break

[@DiddlyPenguin]

I know u have spent a shed load of money but that is a fantastic barn. Lots of space to do new things. 😁😁😁

[@FencerFixerRepairLLCKansasCity]

Gallagher makes some offset insulators that push the wire off the woven wire quite a bit. I think they have different lengths too.

[@marthaweigant4508]

I just bent the t post part back and screwed it into the wood. It worked great.

[@sclivestock5943]

I run 30 head on barb wire with 1 hot line on top. There was no training required. One zip on that moist nose and your all good. Check out Grazing acres farms. Greg Judy he does lots of electric fencing. You did a clean job on this. Pride in workmanship👍🏻

[@lanihaufarm-ahawaiianhomes6484]

When training your dogs to the hot fence make sure you are near enough to assist them (shut down power) if they somehow get a paw entangled. A half a dozen zaps and they’ll learn. Great job, great channel.

[@augustreil]

Hopefully the fence shuts down after a certain amount of Zaps, so to speak ?

[@2001joefox]

I'm always so impressed with what a great job you do on your projects.You do a terrific job of planning out your jobs ahead of time. I always learn something watching your videos.

[@klipchegaming]

like being 50ft short on his wire?

[@csnanny1882]

Chestene Smith, You will get it done, you always figure it out. Just take your time.

[@bevnelson3678]

Awesome another job to tick off your to do list. Well done.

[@augustreil]

That word TICK makes my skin crawl and my dogs !!

[@teresaoftheandes6279]

So exciting. Blessed be God.

[@aaronbrowne1808]

Handy hint with any insulators that have those brittle pins you have to put in to keep the wire in place because after a while they brake off and the wire comes out. Just Use zips ties when they do brake off to keep the wire in place, saves replacing them completely. Cheap and easy repair.

[@lorettaforester5753]

Love your show.watch every day. Hi to your wife. Your home is my dream house.

[@transliv03]

Hi Evan A quick tip we use in Australia is to turn the turning end of your wire into a handle "L shape" then using that to turn the wire around the knot. It makes the knot a lot easier to bend. __________I

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Here come the fencing genius’s! Great video. So excited to see the cattle.

[@karenr67]

Good demo. Good luck with the cattle.

[@FencerFixerRepairLLCKansasCity]

Look up lock jawz fence insulators. They will fit on all sides of a t-post. You can probably use them on those t-post that are facing the wrong direction.

[@stephensaasen8589]

If you're trying to make all your fence electric, one thing my dad did to span a gate for electric fence was he fastened a 2x4 or 2x2 board to each gate post and ran an insulated wire up and over the span of the gate. He made it high enough to get the truck or a load of hay to clear the wire. Another thing you could do is run the insulated wire underground across the gate opening thru a conduit. Looks great!

[@2friesshortofabigmac407]

lots of really good advise in this thread from your viewers.... so many options to save added work.... the sell a electric fence tester that stays on the wire full time and flashes only when the fence is not working... its a handy tool for your fence and saves steps on the days when its difficult to test all sides of the pasture... good job as usual... go to a site like Gallagher so see the many options available for all application's of electric... they have a insulator for all problems from loose fence to backwards posts

[@johnleonard4261]

nice clean work. Don't worry about the calves learning to respect the hot wires. You might consider running two wires on the temporary fence and use the fiberglass post with a metal spike

[@marylott3076]

You always figure it out Evan. Everything looks so good. Look forward to the calves joining the farm!

[@donniechapman5922]

I enjoy your fencing you've got some good ideas. It's a bit wooded where I've got my hot wire run and I have from time to time a broken limb or weed that'll ground mine out.

[@mrr-ee6ui]

here in north of england we use portable fence posts with spikes on the bottom for ease of moving it around

[@TheRfmodulator]

At the ties between two runs, don't twist off the pig tail, they make crimps that are open on one end, so the cross section looks like a number 9... use those to crimp the pig tail from one run to the other... but yeah, slide some crimps, 6 or 8, down the line while you're at it and always be ready... i really like how your fence turned out.

[@kingkong7617]

The electric fence is coming along real good and you had a very good idea of making sure the electric fence does not touch the regular fence and your idea will work well. When you put the calves in the fenced in area, it won't take but one time touching the electric fence and they will know where it is at the next time. We raised two or three calves at a time for meat in the freezer and they learn quickly. The farm is looking really good.

[@deanmagnuson2993]

Good morning from Grand Forks

[@CountryViewAcres]

Good morning.

[@salmonhunter7414]

We use to use a piece of house wire under ground by our gates.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

the insulation is not heavy enough to to hold 7 to 10,000 volts, it leaks in the ground making a short, all you have to do is hold on to the house wire and grab a tee post and you will see what i mean

[@corydriver7634]

I was waiting for your dog to stick his nose on that hot wire. Guarantee he wouldn’t go near another wire fence in a long time.

[@salmonhunter7414]

@@arnoldromppai5395 We did it for years with no problems

[@CountryViewAcres]

The dog has been shocked a few times on other electric fences. I think he is trained up.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

@@salmonhunter7414 well i tried to use it and was giving fault.. one day o was ajusting the wire ad touched a tee post, witch told me were my power loss was, that was the 12/2 house wire

[@billclaussen5255]

Looks damn good to me, good job!!! Looking forward to the calves!!! Thanks...Peace!!! Bill

[@timandkimwardell1378]

Thanks Evan. Nice job. Learned alot

[@DanKlein_1]

Great idea. We are fortunate to have hay fields near our electrified pasture and if we get a year where we only get first cutting of hay, we can run a single strand of electric around part of the hay field and let the cows pasture on that some in the fall. It extends our grazing into later in the year so we don't have to start haying as soon. We just bale grass hay. I think on alfalfa you would have to be careful you don't graze too low before winter. I understand that can kill off your alfalfa or be hard on it at least.

[@mihandsplitters705]

Put your insulator on the wire before clipping it to the post to avoid cutting your wire next time. I cut white plastic bags and tie it to my wire so the cattle see it and they respect the wire very quickly.

[@shaniaa9287]

Very exciting 👍

[@ericanhorn811]

Hey Evan, check out Pete at "Just a few acers farm" he runs a eclectic fence system from his barn, and if I remember correctly you can get different models of eclectic fencers.

[@raypitts4880]

those yellow insulators on a tight wire lock on the wire then fix to the post that way you can fix insulators to tight wire so easy.

[@patriciabeyer7824]

👋 Good morning. This is interesting! 👏👏 I will be watching for the cattle to come. 😊 That sunshine and snowless ground looks very welcoming. We have lots of snow here in Edmonton still and cold weather. Brrrr 🥶 All I can say is come on spring. 🌱🌱 Be blessed. 👍☝️🙏

[@leiflundquist468]

Great job!

[@maggiesue4825]

A lot of work, but you're doing it right!!

[@Ed-lt3pp]

For the section that heads to the barn, you could mount insulators on the field fence rather than the t post. Use an insulator that would normally attach to a wood post but mount to a piece of 2x or plywood. Then put another piece on the other side of the fence and screw them together. Should be ok until you figure something else out as long as you’re not trying to take much of a vertical load.

[@CountryViewAcres]

I think I am just going to pull the T-posts and put the on the other side of the fence. Then I should be able to extend the fence in that direction.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Nice going

[@joannak4640]

Great video!! I'm always so happy when you post a new one. Thanks for sharing ❤️

[@remushaynes2693]

mr. evan; you missed your calling, you should have been in texas while they were without power. your expertise would have come in handy.....................g

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Now you will recognize the animal which tried to break out by its glowing eyes...⚡😉👍🏻

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Good morning Evan and Rebecca, you both did a great job with the fencing as usual. Where there’s a will there’s a way 👍👍. Looking forward to seeing your cattle getting their new home. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

[@arrowjmfarms]

As some suggested you can make spacers to put in where they wavy fence is or get longer brackets like you did. There is also trick you can do to the woven wire that will straighten it out and take out a lot of the slack. I just made a video on it a few weeks ago. You basically have to put kinks in your woven wire fence, but you really doesn't look bad when you're done.

[@arrowjmfarms]

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[@adamgipson6151]

Longer ground rod and more than one will help with grounding.

[@EC4400]

So very nice to see your plans unfolding. Continue in the blessings.

[@daveburton9378]

Rotation grazing is a good idea but one thing to think about is, they also need water so you'll have to get more water tanks if you haven't thought about it.

[@CountryViewAcres]

Yes, I think I have that handled. I will show it when I start rotational grazing.

[@frank530611]

I dont know what the cost of the insulated wire cost but keep in mind a old water hose or a very cheap one putting your wire through the hose makes a good insulator as well long or short stretches

[@lorenmeyer5290]

Excellent job Evan & Rebecca! Have a wonderful week!

[@jacktomberlin7976]

On the one stretch where the field fence is on the wrong side, can you pull the t-post, turn them around and put them on the other side? The wood posts shouldn’t matter since you can nail the long insulators on through the field fence. Just a thought! Keep up the great work!

[@CountryViewAcres]

Yes, I will probably turn the t-posts around.

[@bobjoncas2814]

...LOOKIN' GOOD, NEAT JOB, STAY SAFE...

[@johnrevill1087]

you might need to put a couple more power boost packs on that length of electric fencing especially if your going to run other electric fencing of of it

[@wmkess]

Yeah, plus most temporary polywire has high resistance and loses voltage a lot quicker than high tensile steel wire.

[@alwayslate1000]

Looks like you are doing a great job. If you run short of pasture you could use the place where you new grove is. You already have the tree trunks covered. Just a idea.

[@michaelbobbiharris2587]

Good video

[@DeanFamilyAcres]

Perfect timing. We are about to do the same. Kudos for you guys documenting everything. If only we can speed up our editing process.

[@CountryViewAcres]

Editing on project videos is time consuming. This project was filmed over the course of 2 days. And it took me 2 evenings after work to edit it. VLOG style videos are a lot easier to edit.

[@DeanFamilyAcres]

@@CountryViewAcres Appreciate the feedback, you are right about editing, it usually takes us a solid evening to get one edited. Need to coordinate that better so we can put out some more content. We have the footage, just need to edit it. We've been consistent about posting every other week for almost a year now, but feel like we need to post more frequently. Thanks for the motivation to keep pushing forward. New goat update coming out today @ 3. :)

[@CountryViewAcres]

@@DeanFamilyAcres , I know it I hard to do and takes a lot of time. But twice a week videos keep people interested. Just work up to it slowly, shoot for a video once a week. If you editing on a PC, copy files over one evening in between doing something else. Then edit another evening. Good luck.

[@clevjam]

Evan, Good job working through the fencing problems. You may want to contact Chris from Let's Dig 18. He is fairly new with cattle and has a similar fencing situation.

[@richardhutchings921]

Thanks for sharing. Good job Evan. Love your videos.

[@rickster9993]

You shouldn't have any problem raising a couple of steers in that lot. Especially if you over seed it during the rotation. You might consider fencing in the area across from the barn.

[@CountryViewAcres]

I plan to. Don't know if I will have them this year to do it.

[@rickster9993]

@@CountryViewAcres By the way shop/ask around about solar power for your fence. There are people out there that can help build a system for your needs. It should be possible to base it in the barn while operating it from your phone. Then step up to a security camera system around your property. Solar and energy storage is going to have a major impact on our lives.

[@lizpurvis2386]

Thanks

[@trentencaskey7641]

Hope I'm wrong, but I can see the potential for a couple of calves to overwhelm that area pretty quickly. Just having them walk through it when it's wet could set your recovery time back, let alone whatever they eat in that section. Wet weather will not be your friend. Like I said, hope I'm wrong.

[@johnsadler8637]

Good thinking on the lag screw solution for your hold downs on the valley section. I had to smile when you ran out of wire about 50’ short of the end. It does seem that any project will have a few surprises. The long insulators, for instance - that the wire had to be loose enough to flex past the stays. Or that the tee posts were turned the other way. Actually, there might already be insulators for the back side of a tee post - there are probably a lot of places with both sides of a post needing electrical wire. Check around online for that. Keep up the creative solutions!

[@daviddobson8933]

They make insulators that clip on the back side of your steel post again most any farm supply store has them.

[@goodalefarm4950]

Nice job on the video. good editing too.

[@vbyler3119]

For your inside corners they make connectors with holes in each end going opposite ways so from one you wire to the post and the wire runs through the other hole

[@ronharrison1776]

Maybe if you put small blocked of wood on each post then put your insulator on them .

[@yukoncornelius8669]

put the wire in before you clip it to the T-post.. you can still have a tight, or hot wire for that matter...

[@daviddobson8933]

Get the longer insulators your local farm supply store has them.

[@bnewton5922]

I learned a lot from your post on electrical fencing that I didn’t know. Thanks for sharing. How’s the barn project coming? Looking forward to seeing the calves brought to the farm. Stay safe.

[@rockeerockey6941]

Wrapping the two separate wires (not actually connected) around the insulator may creat RF interference. Radios, TV including cable & Sat can be affected! If a ham radio operator knocks at your door, you'll know why. Excellent vid as usual!

[@CountryViewAcres]

The wire is wrapped around twice weaving through the other wire. With it tensioned up, I think it has a good connection. And by the way, I have a General Ham License.

[@rockeerockey6941]

@@CountryViewAcres Good job OM! Extra here, 2x1. 73

[@ninawill8053]

That yellow cat is loving it's life, doing self maintenance while sunbathing lol.

[@cathiwim]

Tractor supply makes yellow insulators 6 inches long we have some

[@jbraeslamb]

You put the hot wire too low Evan. If you put near the top of the wire it will stop the cows and horses from leaning over your fence.

[@jimmypowell7508]

you put your wire through the end of the long insulator and then attach the insulator to the t post

[@terrycastor8299]

I haven't bought any in years, but I used to be able to buy 6" stand off insulators that would give you more clearance, Evan....oh...end of video...never mind. Duuuh!🤪

[@johnathonneal603]

Not gonna lie, I thought the dog was going to stick its snooter right on the live wire @19:14 lol

[@rogerdaniel3005]

Watching

[@TheCapt222]

Our next door neighbor on one of us is a state conservation park we have had year's of fighting to get fence work done we have our two cows at a friend's property for two year's and are going into second calving finally can now get fencing going government's certainly dont make thing's easy we crossed a jersey and a friesian with a limousin bull being in south australia plenty of dairy calves about and crossed with a limousin bull should bring in some good beef hopefully if the information i was giving is true

[@arnoldromppai5395]

any dairy cow cross bread with any beef bull, you cant asked for better beef then any other i been buying 17 to 20 cross bread calve a year for over 38 years, and people love the meat. i dont see why you would have any fighting to put up your fence, as long as the fence is 6" on your side of the line no one can say a word about your fence, now if you were wanting them to pay for half of it and put the fence right on the line, well that is different, but you dont do it that way..

[@amberfanning4547]

You should check out 10-acre Woods they have one that runs a nice stretch of fence I think the company's name is Gallagher or something like that I'm not mistaken I think they also have a promotional code

[@Chris-jh3tg]

In my experience, direct wire fence with 3, 8 foot grounding rods is the best way to go. The solar just don't pack the punch like the direct wire does.

[@arnoldromppai5395]

if one reads the instruction that come with any good charger, it shows you to install 3 - 8 foot galvanized rods 10 feet apart, run your ground wire though each of the 3 ground rod connector and to the charger, the 8 foot long rod must be hammered down with in 4" of the ground, i see so many videos were they use 3 - 8 foot rods but only drive them in a few feet, the whole idea is to have the rods in wet ground, know mater how dry the top of the ground is. i would never buy a solar charger, they are total junk. the tiny battery in them dead all the time, they dont have the power you need to give that good punch. they are just a marketing gig

[@peggysizemore4207]

Hi Evan👋🏻

[@CountryViewAcres]

Hi Peggy. 👋

[@mga7649]

have you tried wood t post 5" pinlock fro gallagher?

[@jamesbyrne5734]

Great job on the fence . If ur strip grazing what’s ur plan for drinking water for the cattle ?

[@josephsantoni3452]

Great fencing videos! I see you intend to rotationally graze animals. How much land for pasture have you actually fenced in? Thanks!

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

I've always hatted the color yellow lol I will do all kinds of MacGyver fencing to avoid the longer, 'always YELLOW', insulator's. I would have used 2x4's on the wood poles || to bring it out

[@enduser1982]

There in the yard at 15 minutes... It appears you've dug a trench.. did we miss something?

[@augustreil]

For training a cow, would some of that bright orange/red plastic tape work, tied every 10-20 feet work ?

[@kaseycasece1340]

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[@texasproud3332]

You might want to put up signs regarding your fence

[@karlmurphy402]

I don,t think animals can read

[@johnzink3309]

thx

[@CentralNH]

Nothing like an ice cold Dr. Pepper or MOXIE while working 👍

[@44warlord41]

I am getting ready to put up my own fence so I am watching what you are doing to see what I want to use. I do not understand why you pulled that very long piece of wire. Why would you not tie off each section on its own? That way if there was and issue with one run, you can address it on that one run instead of the entire section. This is not a criticism, it is a question for me to learn.

[@terrypomatto907]

We connected the insulators on the wire then connected them to the post. It worked for us but watching a video you lose perspective.

[@robertnelson8479]

One step closer to getting your feeder calves.