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Eric Krewson:
Today's project; I looked out my bedroom window this morning and could see green where there had been only bare dirt in my deer food plot yesterday.
No time to waste; deer will zero in on the tender shoots and pull every tiny shoot up in a couple of days. Time to activate my electric fence to keep them out. I already had the posts in the ground and 3 extension cords pieced together and run to the fence charger but hadn't strung the three strands of electric fence wire on the posts.
I was short on wire and scrounged up every piece I could find, I had two partial spools and some I had wrapped around a board. After making three rounds around the perimeter of the fence I had about 5 feet of wire left, that was close.
I plugged the charger in and it didn't work, dang. I found out the first thing one should do is plug the extension cord into the outlet by the basement door. Back up the hill to plug in the extension cord, the charger still didn't work. I had used electrical tape on each extension cord connection so I backtracked up the hill again, checked every connection and found a bad one.
With power to my charger and it clicking merrily away, I put my volt meter on a strand of the electric fence and only had 1500 volts, not enough I thought. I grabbed the fence for the ultimate test, POW! When I got back up off the ground from being tased I thought, yea that will do.
Mission accomplished.....
New growth, just up.
The fence is up, deer beware.
A small dog pen charger but it does the job, I have a 10-mile charger on my vegetable garden fence that puts out 7500V.
I take the fence down and let the deer in when it grows to this stage.
paulc:
Love it...fresh out of college I tried making side money with a road side market garden. Had an acre of mixed crops, did the work by hand so my hands were pretty much senseless from callous. Grabbed the electric fence to test it and couldn't feel a thing. So being a dumb...I thought "since the deer are going to lick the fence I should lick it too"...
Yeah, it hurt. I would recommend not sticking your tongue on an electric fence. Best part is an old timer across the road watched the whole damn thing (lol) (lol)
Paul
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on September 20, 2022, 08:49:29 am ---
With power to my charger and it clicking merrily away, I put my volt meter on a strand of the electric fence and only had 1500 volts, not enough I thought. I grabbed the fence for the ultimate test, POW! When I got back up off the ground from being tased I thought, yea that will do.
Mission accomplished.....
New growth, just up.
The fence is up, deer beware.
A small dog pen charger but it does the job, I have a 10-mile charger on my vegetable garden fence that puts out 7500V.
I take the fence down and let the deer in when it grows to this stage.
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Eric Krewson:
I spread a little more seed yesterday in the bare spots. It looks like the deer have jumped the fence and have been in the enclosure, lots of tracks but it didn't look like they ate much, they have never jumped the fence before. I will set up a camera to see if they are indeed jumping the fence or the tracks are from before I put up the fence.
We have had unusually warm weather this week, it was 98 yesterday, getting too dry for growing plots.
Eric Krewson:
I have 4 acres of woods, there is a lot of deer traffic on the section I have the food plot planted on, like any section of woods, storms break off limbs and down trees year after year. This past year so much stuff fell that the deer travel routes were completely blocked, I decided to remove the blockages.
I didn't start taking pictures until I had removed several fallen trees and large limbs
This was one of the bigger fallen cherry limbs off a virgin timber cherry tree, it had dropped two more that I had already pulled out, I didn't know if my tractor would pull this limb up the steep hill behind me, it is bigger than it looks.
I got it out;
I still have several small trees and one large one to get out today, this brush pile is growing every day.
I opened up a small clearing on the main deer travel path, just right for hanging a stand over.
My plot is looking good in spite of no rain for 3 weeks, I watered it some yesterday.
WhistlingBadger:
Didn't score with my bow this year--it was pretty hard with my foot in a cast. Now archery season is over and it's time to grab the rifle and put some meat in the freezer. Got a nice antelope the other day. Made 10 pounds of bratwurst, 7 pounds of andouille (currently waiting its turn for the smoker), and 5 pounds of jerkey, and a few packages of steaks and roasts.
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