The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: bloomer on September 03, 2013, 06:53:01 pm
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Just in case anyone wasn't aware, if the mains electric fence is on and you accidentally touch it and another conductor with the other arm or any other part of exposed flesh...
this is my lesson for the day i felt a need to share with you all...
Ellied don't panic i have made an almost full recovery now... ;D ;D ;D
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Ooouuch!! :bouquet:
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shockin absolutely shoking :innocent:
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Yes it Hurts big time . I only did it the once and will never do that again
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Poor you - I have electic shocks - even small ones :o
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Ouch, when I did it my scream echoed off the trees.....
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feeling more manly now, didn't scream...
arm still feels a bit numb!!!
p.s. am so stupid may have done it more than once today!!!
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arm hurts ?
try stepping over a 4 wire fence in shorts, holding 2 watering cans and 3 pigs sniffing around you. I caught a 2000 volt wire on "the inside of my thigh" just last sunday. OK the current is low but it is a very strange experience :excited:
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haha - I've done what MAK describes!! big OUCH! another time I was demonstrating goat milking to a group of children, bent over to squeeze the goats teat and my bum touched the fence - both the goat and I got a shock through that one!!
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That made me laugh plums :roflanim: what a picture. Did the kids laugh or did the parents tell you off for blaspheming?
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ohh yes - not to be confused with the battery ones. i really thought my heart would stop when i touched mine,its sooo strong. took me a few hours to recover actually - as i was holding a metal rake at the time. :o :o :o :o
my stallion still use to to touch it no bother with his huge thick mane.
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I was in arush at the weekend, battery operated Rutland, I know with wellies on, if you hold it firmly not a problem, unfortunately I didn't think as I got hold of the wire I wanted to connect on with the other hand, that one must have been earthing bigtime - Thought I was going to have a heart attack :o :o :o ::) .
Also have a mains cheapy, found that 'burns' rather than pulses, that HURT! can't find out why it doesn't work now because I don't like touching it to check to see when it IS working (work that one out ;D )
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I don't like touching it to check to see when it IS working (work that one out ;D )
A good trick for that is to use a long blade of grass - hold one end and touch the other end on the fence. You probably won't feel anything. Gradually slide the grass along the fence so there's less distance between the fence and the end you're holding. You'll start to feel a very gentle shock.
Obviously you could just buy a tester for £15 or so...
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With the Rutland pulse type that's normally how I check, but this one is different, it's seemed to be a constant energy(?) that burns rather than 'kicks'. It was a cheapy off Ebay, translated from Chinese i think (some odd phrases in the instructions, what there was of them). Must be brave and try to connect it up again sometime. Next year maybe ;D .
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Thanks for the reassurance on your survival and for the return of power to most of the fences including the all important stallion paddock boundaries :) I hope you didn't get in trouble for being late home?
Feel free to try again anytime, it's always good to know the current is getting through and I wouldn't want to touch it myself ;)
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Conversation with my then 8 year old, Eloise at a friends far.m....
"careful ELoise that fence might be on!!" Eloise "Its not", Me "er, how do you know?!" E " I touched it to check - like I do at home...."
palm face moment. ::)
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I also once got a mains shock from a wire on the top, inside of thigh - wasn't in shorts but had wet jeans (vegetation was wetter than had realised, even though was a really hot day!) And was standing in water on both sides wearing trainers. The fence hadn't been on for weeks, hurt like hell! Farmer was pleased as it saved him having to to walk up there to check it was on ;)
Some people seem to know electric - one little girl I know can touch a fence between the shocks somehow. Her mum swears by just grabbing the wire/tape hard in her bare hands, says it doesn't hurt, she acts like its not even on!
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Some people seem to know electric - one little girl I know can touch a fence between the shocks somehow. Her mum swears by just grabbing the wire/tape hard in her bare hands, says it doesn't hurt, she acts like its not even on!
Thats what I can normally do, if you have wellies on, you're fairly insulated, once showed my cousin how easy it was, knowing she only had shoes on, unfortunately she got hold of ME, felt like my elbow had been knocked out of joint, haven't tried that mean trick since.
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They do say the odd electric shock does you good..............but what a scare.....I do remember picking up a live split cable and thinking I should not do it, but I did and it certainly gave me a shock, strong tea and cake was the remedy!
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Have done the mains powered electric fence test by mistake when squatting down to sort out the pig trough.......
OH was in hysterics :rant: He won't go near the fence!
One of the dogs tested the fence with his nose - you've never seen a dog run so fast, tail clamped between legs while yipping in a high pitched tone
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haha - I've done what MAK describes!! big OUCH! another time I was demonstrating goat milking to a group of children, bent over to squeeze the goats teat and my bum touched the fence - both the goat and I got a shock through that one!!
Plums, of course I wouldn't dare say anything about the size of your bum :innocent:
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;D that may have had something to do with it I guess LOL!!
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I once heard Chris Tarrant (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) being interviewed when he described a day out fishing. He was on a deserted stretch of the river about a mile from the nearest toilet so decided to relieve himself against a hedge. He just hadn't realised there was a strand of electric fence behind it but soon realised when the stream hit it. :roflanim: I think he feared for his manhood for a while.
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Hubby fixed a permanent wire along the top of one of the field fences so we could connect to it easily for strip grazing. One of my favourite tricks is to lean on it with my hand when I'm standing talking :o , yes I'm stupid enough to have done it more than once :roflanim:
Once watched a curious piglet walk up to the ire and bite it, now that was funny :roflanim:
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When we were buying a house in Cornwall the neighbour had an electric fence and started chatting to us, both our dogs went up to him and jumped high into the air, it was actually funny, I was also very please when a local farmer put some around his field where horses were kept as my dogs now keep well well away from it although I worry I may grab hold of the wire!!