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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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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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| 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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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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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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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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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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