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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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 On the Quiet Side
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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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Elite Veteran
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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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Elite Veteran
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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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 Accident Prone
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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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Red Bull Agressive
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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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Elite Veteran
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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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