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| I'm thinking of using 1.5" white tape for pasture. We live in the mountains so the ground isn't even and we have lots of tall grass and trees. Anyone have experiences with tape? Does it hold your horses? Do they test it? What about when it rains/windy? |
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Location: Oklahoma | We love ours. I use the 1" and run 4-5 strands of it. Horses respect it when it's hot and I only light up 1-2 rows. It has held up through the Oklahoma seasonal changes and I use a solar charger.
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| Do you get a lot of deer where you are? They'll seriously screw up a tape fence!!
But I use the tape without issue, it's a piece of cake. The horses always get curious the first time, reach down to sniff it, get snapped, then spend the rest of their adult life avoiding it.
I only use one strand, edited to add. BUT if I was using on road front, etc, it would look like a fort like twisted K posted. :)
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | classicpotatochip - 2015-07-29 7:27 AM
Do you get a lot of deer where you are? They'll seriously screw up a tape fence!!
But I use the tape without issue, it's a piece of cake. The horses always get curious the first time, reach down to sniff it, get snapped, then spend the rest of their adult life avoiding it.
I only use one strand, edited to add. BUT if I was using on road front, etc, it would look like a fort like twisted K posted. :)
We have ours on a road front, so the more the better. Plus, we have a stud, so better to be safe than sorry. |
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Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| TwistedK - 2015-07-29 7:37 AM
classicpotatochip - 2015-07-29 7:27 AM
Do you get a lot of deer where you are? They'll seriously screw up a tape fence!!
But I use the tape without issue, it's a piece of cake. The horses always get curious the first time, reach down to sniff it, get snapped, then spend the rest of their adult life avoiding it.
I only use one strand, edited to add. BUT if I was using on road front, etc, it would look like a fort like twisted K posted. :)
We have ours on a road front, so the more the better. Plus, we have a stud, so better to be safe than sorry.
Oh I agree with you! I like your fort! I like tape fence a lot, cheaper to fix and they actually stay off of it and don't get wire cut. Good stuff. |
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Location: mi | I use 2 or 3 strands of the 2". I love it. The deer do pull an area down now and then but its usually just the top strand and I can walk out and have it back up and tightened in 5 minutes or less. We do weed wack all along ours this time of year. I try not to put the bottom strand too low because large amounts of snow or weeds will take out the zapping effect. If you need a lower one just make it so you can disconnect it from the fencer if need be. Otherwise I really like ours. |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | here are a couple more pictures of our fencing
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| Awesome thank you!! Yes we do have a ton of deer here. How the heck do they take the fence down? We have little white tail, no mule deer here. About 150 - 200lbs at the most.
What size/kind of T posts do you use? And I'm curious about the solar. We don't have power out there yet. |
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| Oh and I'm hoping it will deter bear and mountain lion. Any experience with that? I have a pony and a foal so I'm concerned about that. |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | No experience with bear, etc. But there is a video on you tube with a grizzly vs. hot wire for food. We run a 3 mile solar charger and have 3 ground rods. It'll light you up |
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 Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Save your money and buy the electric rope fence... way more durable and longer lasting, doesn't flop in the breeze either
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Location: Purcell Ok | cindyt - 2015-07-29 8:49 AM
Save your money and buy the electric rope fence... way more durable and longer lasting, doesn't flop in the breeze either
Agreed!
It holds up better in the wind, doesn't twist or fray. I've had problems with the tape wearing and the wires breaking where the connectors were.
We have had our rope up for 2 years without any problems. |
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Location: Kansas | I agree, use the rope instead of the tape. Tape stretches and wires break. We use rope to fence off our pond in the winter and to fence our winter trap. We use solar chargers. They work very well. We use two strands on t posts with plastic carriers. |
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Location: mi | I have had my 2" tape up for close to 10 years with only replacing connectors and areas where the horses roll into it or fight over it. The deer take it down by jumping over and missing or going through and not making it and they just bust a connector or pop it out of the connector. I will add I am not fencing in large acreage just small paddocks. wanted to add I have had a form of the tape at each of my farms for close to 20 years now and have never had more then a scrap on any horse. I can have fence pulled down for 100 ft and pulled into the other paddocks. T posts bent over at a 45 degree angle and skid marks that are 15 foot long and still can rarely find more then a tuft of hair gone. I have always worried about the rope being able to tighten down and do damage.
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Twisted K - you use tape in OK? The wind isn't a problem? I have wanted to get some to create smaller paddocks and split horses up. |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | soonergirl98 - 2015-07-29 12:08 PM
Twisted K - you use tape in OK? The wind isn't a problem? I have wanted to get some to create smaller paddocks and split horses up.
yes! We are in Piedmont. Have not had an issue at all. If you want to come see it, let me know |
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  Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | We had the 1.5" tape at our old place and had 3-4 strands and never had a problem. We have just the top strand in rope and tape at our place now..wished we could replace the whole thing. Love it. |
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Location: Missouri | I used the 1 1/2" when we lived in Montana and hated it! The wind was always catching it and whipping it in circles until it would rip off multiple posts. I would never consider it for anything other than a cross-fence (definitely not road perimeter!) If cows were ever near that section, they would walk right through. Our horses got out multiple times.
I have used the small rope and didn't like it either. It was orange/white and the horses couldn't see it in the snow. They would run/walk right through it while playing (I even had one that learned she could go through when she had her blanket on!)
I currently have 1/2 or 3/4" tape as a cross fence. It's working great, but haven't tried over winter. I only have two strands and they haven't tested it. I only have the top strand hot b/c my charger wasn't big enough to do both. Again, just using for cross-fence within pasture.
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Location: mi | You guys must have your tape set up different. I do have a post every 12 foot and we do pull it tight. It only moves in the wind when the boys have stretched it out a bit or broken a connector and I have put off getting out to fix it. Granted we don't have high daily winds here but we do get some nasty thunderstorms and the fence is always still there.
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Good Ole Boys just Fine with Me
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Location: SE Missouri | We replaced all tape with the rope and it is so much better! The sagging with ice, whipping with wind, and durability(lack of) is just not comparable for us. Totally worth the change for us, I'll never use tape again, lol!
We had the tape for approx 3 years and it was always a pain after year 1. The electric rope is working on year 4 or 5 and looks great. We even took down the middle stand of the welded sucker rod in the small paddocks and replaced with rope. Keeps the horses from messing with the pipe fence and looks great! We use two strands.
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Sparklin Cowgirl
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| I THINK ours is the 1/5 inch tape. (It's really wide.) Works great, then again our fence is hot enough to cook birds.... If it isn't hot we have a paint mare that WILL walk through it or crawl under it. We get all kinds of weather. Holds up great in storms. It will sag when there is ice on it in the winter but pops back up once it thaws out. I will say that the sun eats it. We just had to replace some tape in a pasture that had been up for well over 5 years. It didn't break we replaced it because just to be safe. |
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | We had problems with it losing problems to lack of a good ground in dry weather and switched to the bi-polar tape fence. The top of the tape is positive and the bottom of the tape is negative and when the horse touches it - the horse is the ground and it has one heck of a powerful jolt! The horses don't test is but once and its bone dry summer and that sucker is working great. We have deer, snow, ice storms and wind and this tape holds up through it all. http://www.horseguardfence.com/
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Location: PA | We had the tape for a few years, but had difficultly with stretching with the snow which caused wires to break). We switched to the poly rope and love it. |
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| We are using two strands as a temporary fence for my good mare right now. We don't even turn it on when we are home, she doesn't test the fence at all. I wouldn't recommend how we have it for a more adventurous horse. haha I think if you make it more permanent than we have it, it would be fine for an older horse, I wouldn't use it for foals/younger horses though. They tend to get in more trouble. |
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| What about solar chargers? I see everything from $100 to $1,000.00. |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | HorseMommyFiveO - 2015-07-29 6:53 PM
What about solar chargers? I see everything from $100 to $1,000.00.
We have the Zareba (spelling) 3 mile solar charger. It has worked well for us. Haven't had any issues with wind, rain, snow, etc. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | MinorRed - 2015-07-29 9:12 AM
cindyt - 2015-07-29 8:49 AM
Save your money and buy the electric rope fence... way more durable and longer lasting, doesn't flop in the breeze either
Agreed!
It holds up better in the wind, doesn't twist or fray. I've had problems with the tape wearing and the wires breaking where the connectors were.
We have had our rope up for 2 years without any problems.
I was wondering how a splice works with a tape fence. I've seen the wires that are woven in to run horizontally. Do they also weave in some wires vertically to deal with breaks in the horizontal wires and keep electricity in them? Like if you have a break in the middle of the tape. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | My pasture is cross-fenced with 2 strands of tape on the step-in plastic posts. It's been there a year and I've had to make 2 minor repairs. One from high winds and one from my husband breaking posts with the lawn mower. LOL. The horses totally respect it, but the donkey will stand there and listen for the electric zaps, back his ears and run under it between pulses. He's kinda special. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | HorseMommyFiveO - 2015-07-29 6:53 PM What about solar chargers? I see everything from $100 to $1,000.00.
I have a Zareba 10 mile solar charger. It runs the wire on the perimeter fence, and the tape on the cross fence and it HURTS. This one is 4.5 years old and no problems. You're better off with too much juice than not enough. |
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Location: North Dakota | Three 4 Luck - 2015-07-30 10:08 AM
My pasture is cross-fenced with 2 strands of tape on the step-in plastic posts. It's been there a year and I've had to make 2 minor repairs. One from high winds and one from my husband breaking posts with the lawn mower. LOL. The horses totally respect it, but the donkey will stand there and listen for the electric zaps, back his ears and run under it between pulses. He's kinda special.
That's too funny! One of my idiots is so terrified of it he will stay inside a 3' single strand that's not even on. The other is braver and will jump out. |
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| THANK YOU ALL!! You have no idea. I read your responses to my skeptical hubby. Now I can spend more $$ from the sale of my 4 year old on a finished horse instead of barb wire fencing. :-)))))
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