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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

Jim,
I'm not sure that anyone even manufactures those old 'wee-burner' 
type electric fence chargers anymore - too much danger of starting 
fires - and electrocution.
For at least 20 years, and probably even longer than that, most 
farm-type electric fence energizers have been of the high voltage/low 
impedance(low amperage) type - the one I have here on the farm powers 
about 10 miles of permanent HT fencing, and when everything is 
'right', it puts out somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 volts - the 
'pain potential' is very high, but since the amperage is very low, 
the danger of accidental electrocution is almost nonexistent.

I don't know your setup, but it might be preferable to put the 
electric fence 3 ft outside the perimeter of your woven wire fence - 
if that's a possibility.  They like to have an unimpeded 'flight 
path', and if they're having to jump the 'hotwire', 3 ft out from the 
main fence, they might not have enough space to clear the woven wire.

Here are the folks I buy most of my electric fencing supplies from - 
and they do deer/wildlife exclusion fencing, in addition to routine farm stuff.
http://www.premier1supplies.com/deer/species.php

Lucky


At 09:37 AM 2/28/2009, you wrote:
>     Since I can't legally build an eight foot fence, I'm seriously
> considering installing a 'weed burner' electric fence on the inside of my
> woven wire fence.  When the deer jump the 30" fence, they land (on the
> inside) about 3' from the fence.  It is my thinking that if they get a good
> jolt inside the fence, it'll send the message that pain is to be had inside
> the fence.
>     Has anyone tried this?
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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