[bloomer]

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... 

[Mammyshaz]

Ooouuch!!   

[The Woodsiders]

shockin absolutely shoking

[sokel]

Yes it Hurts big time . I only did it the once and will never do that again 

[darkbrowneggs]

Poor you - I have electic shocks - even small ones 

[fifixx]

Ouch, when I did it my scream echoed off the trees.....

[bloomer]

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!!!

[MAK]

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 

[plumseverywhere]

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!!

[Miss Piggy]

That made me laugh plums  what a picture. Did the kids laugh or did the parents tell you off for blaspheming?

[shygirl]

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. 
my stallion still use to to touch it no bother with his huge thick mane.

[Penninehillbilly]

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            .
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  )

[shropshire_blue]

I don't like touching it to check to see when it IS working (work that one out  )

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...

[Penninehillbilly]

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 .

[ellied]

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