Did ya Ever Peeee On An Electric Fence?

[Okie-Go]

I found my first electric fence surveying land in Oklahoma. Still can't stand to get shocked.

 

[LWilliams]

My uncle had an old Chevy truck, I don't remember the year but it had the starter button on the floor by the gas peddle, that had one of those seat cushions that was made of metal coils and covered with the woven plastic. The covering had torn off most of it but he still sat on it. My dad ran a wire from a spark plug through the firewall, under the floor mat and up behind the seat and connected it to the exposed seat cushion wire. When my uncle got in it and started it up he butted the back window glass out with his head. It took him three tries in rapid succession.

 

[lschultz]

Oo. :--) :{

 

[patrobertson]

My turn, thanks to dad

We went camping one year with a punch friends up at Lake Trinity Northern Cali. and we found out the year before that there were bears, but it was nice because people wouldn't camp there so we had the place just to our group. Well good old dad had a good idea of putting up a hotwire around our kitchen area. Well they needed a tester and that ended up being me. (at 16 or so I wasn't the brightest) It was just like any other fence when I first touch it but than he told me to grap the rebar that had hose around it to insulate the wire. Well grabbed it and touch the fence with my finger and it lit me up!!!! Burned a line acrossed the end of my finger and knocked me on my butt. But it worked well with the bears. They didn't come around after the first night, even with chicken draped over the wire. Animal rights eat your heart out.



Shane

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Yup, I've touched a hot fence, on a wet damp day no less

Happened when I was 13 or so walking with some friends on someone's farm. The path lead right along the fence, I lost my balance and guess what I reached for

I got zapped good, fell to the ground, and part of the current must have passed through my brain . . . felt dazed and everything was kinda spinning around for a few moments.



My dad had a very close call when he was in his 20s. He was working on an electrical panel which he thought had been completely disconnected from the mains. Well it wasn't and he made contact with the 440 line #ad
Knocked him out cold, burned his fingers pretty good. Luckily he only bumped it with the back of one of his fingers instead of grabbing it. My mom said he was seriously spaced out for 3-4 days and it kinda scared her.



Vaughn

 

[E7mack96]

10 kv transformer

well, i didn't get shocked by it, but I sure built it.



I took an old transformer from a battery charger (one of those 75 amp start jobs) and rewound the secondary and made it the primary. I ran this thing in a large pot of wesson oil. (It drew 20 amps at 120volts and would boill 2 gals of oil in a matter of 10 seconds) The lights in the house would dim. I ran some wire to my brothers' bedroom before he got home. After he laid down, i fired it up for a few secs. at a time. The arc across the ends scared the freakin s**t out of him. He refused to go to sleep that nite.



No I did not actually shock him. It would have killed him for sure. I made a lot of wierd, but way cool things as a child.



2 liter bombs are way cool too. Just r-502 is all you need

 

[merryman]

When we were raising horses, we had several pastures devided by hot wire and we moved sprinklers on pipe around to irrigate them. I had the wires set high enough that I could bend way over with one hand on the ground and scramble under them. Couple times I did not bend low enough and hit the wire with my shoulders; one time I was very wet from getting in the sprinkler. Knocked me right on my face!

Ever once in a while when moving the 20 foot sections of aluminum pipe I would get careless (usually doing this early AM when half awake) and hit the wire with the pipe; woke right up.



An interesting aside; with the horses, a wire could be off or shorted out for days and they would still stay away from it. For some years I had Mammoth Donkeys for Elk packing and they would know within 10 minutes if a fence was off or shorted, and either be leaning over it (grass really is greener on the other side) or just walk through it.

Vaughn