Electric Fence - Approximate Cost??

[2thDoc]

and if you're going with two offset wires, you will need a bunch of those fiberglass step in posts.

[cusportsman]

Talked to an older gentleman a couple weeks ago and he said they planted about 20 rows of corn surrounding their sunflowers and had zero deer damage when before they couldn't keep the deer out of the sunflowers....

Be curious if anyone else has tried this.

[Palmetto Bug]

I've tried giving deer "other choices" by planting sacrificial crops near the ones I wanted to protect. It turns out that deer like variety and will come from long distances to eat at a buffet. YMMV

[chocolate lab84]

Talked to an older gentleman a couple weeks ago and he said they planted about 20 rows of corn surrounding their sunflowers and had zero deer damage when before they couldn't keep the deer out of the sunflowers....

Be curious if anyone else has tried this.

I tried that once before I put a fence up and it did not work for us. The deer left the sunflowers alone until they headed out and then in 2 nights, ate the sunflowers.

The handful of fields I get to hunt, are all going to metal welded wire 8 ft or higher due to hogs. Hogs have gotten into the ribbon and metal wire fences with ease lately-but the deer have not yet. I have ribbon wire on my field and will going to a permanent fence in the spring.

[fro]

The deer or anything else you are trying to shock have to be touching the ground and the electric wire at the same time. Any electric wire above 4 feet is useless in my opinion. I’ve got 3 hot wires spaced on the bottom then 4 strands of baling twine above that.

What Raybird said!
Hot, Ground, Hot... Gets them every time. Have had mine in place for 6-7 years. As long as it is clean of Spanish moss and tree limbs hasn't failed.

Alternate you wires, ground wire every other....

[2thDoc]

i still put a top wire. more of a visual deterrent. definitely need offset wires for this to work.

and I wouldnt expect a couple rows of corn or other food to keep deer out of sunflowers. I've tried some of that, too.

[Highstrung]

I support dropping the limits and bringing back broadcasting

[jwilliams]

a bunch of T-posts.
a couple bags of those yellow t-post insulators
wire
solar or AC charger (dont look at "miles". look at joules)
ground rod. go ahead and get two.

yep

[Dook]

I been using the solar one from TSC, it saved my garden from the deers....now the deers are smaller.....LOL.

[Whackumstackum]

I use T-post for corners and mid point of long runs, plastic posts every 30 ft., 1/2in ribbon on outside run and 2 strands of galvanized wire on inside run. 8ft ground rod. In my opinion don’t go cheap on energizer! I use a 12v unit and swap out deep cycle batteries every 2-3 weeks. Not sure of total cost off top of my head but it wasn’t that bad outside of the $300 energizer.


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Running a similar setup. I go t-post on the corners and 80-90ft between fiberglass posts without issue. I also use 3 grounding rods vs one. Swap the battery every 2 weeks and good to go. I think I’m at around $1000 plus the cost of the energizer which was $300 ish. I also put it up the same day the field gets planted so they don’t get to taste a sunflower. Worked great so far. I roll up the tape on Garden hose reels also. Makes getting it up a one man job.

[trkykilr]

5 ft hog wire, and 3 electric strands above that.

If you have hogs, this is your only answer

[Whackumstackum]

Talked to an older gentleman a couple weeks ago and he said they planted about 20 rows of corn surrounding their sunflowers and had zero deer damage when before they couldn't keep the deer out of the sunflowers....

Be curious if anyone else has tried this.

Yes. They ate the corn outside of the fence.