Single line of electric fence

[Shock the bad people]

I have a problem with drunk young adults climbing over my fences and then messing with my livestock. One spot where I have a double fence is especially prone to being crossed. I plan to buy a solar electric fence charger and set up a single line of wire just inside the outermost fence-line. My fence is made of square wooden posts with wooden boards mounted on the outside, it shouldn't be a problem to attach insulators to some of the inside posts.

The problem is that I know very little about electric fencing and everything I find online is about multi-strand fencing to keep animals in (or to keep bears out). Even those multi-strand diagrams often don't indicate whether the wire is going all the way around a paddock/pasture and returning to the charger or to itself. I've been reading as much as I can so I know that I need grounding rods, insulators, insulated wire for connecting certain parts, etc but certain info I haven't found.

Is it possible to have just one line of wire run down a fence-line and terminate or do I need to turn that wire back around and send it back to the charger to complete a circuit? I certainly don't mind running the wire back (and having two strands) if that is what it takes but I don't want to do it if I don't need to.

Please note that I will post signs warning people of the electric fence and I don't intend to shock anyone that is minding their own business. If they cannot be bothered to read the signs and decide to trespass then they deserve the shock.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[AshleyFishy]

Being a person that was once a trespasser I can personally say what got my group and I to not go near someone's property was plain fear. We never messed with livestock but would go out and have pasture parties, drink and smoke etc.

One guy I guess was in a deer stand or something and he shot off a shotgun in the air a few times. Another time we got pelted with paint balls... that sucked. Electric fencing never stopped us, we would just cut it and climb over.

 

[Shock the bad people]

Your experience is appreciated. Unfortunately I'm in a situation and in a metropolitan area where doing either of those things could get me arrested and/or fired. But I am dealing with largely urban youth that mostly wouldn't know how to disable an electric fence to save their life, so at least I've got that going for me.

 

[AshleyFishy]

Your experience is appreciated. Unfortunately I'm in a situation and in a metropolitan area where doing either of those things could get me arrested and/or fired. But I am dealing with largely urban youth that mostly wouldn't know how to disable an electric fence to save their life, so at least I've got that going for me.

yeah city kids most likely would get their butts zapped.

To answer your question though you do not bring the wire back to the charger. You just end it at your last insulator. Yes you can have one strand and end it where you want

 

[AshleyFishy]

Sorry for the poor quality of this but I just sketched it out on my phone.

But it shows kind of how most of them are. ..ground wire on left..shocky wire on right..

on the last insulator just wrap the wire around the insulator and then twisted back around on the wire itself. Kind of like tieing a hook on a fishing line.

 

[AshleyFishy]

 

[Shock the bad people]

Excellent! Thank you so much!

 

[Godsgrl]

Your experience is appreciated. Unfortunately I'm in a situation and in a metropolitan area where doing either of those things could get me arrested and/or fired. But I am dealing with largely urban youth that mostly wouldn't know how to disable an electric fence to save their life, so at least I've got that going for me.

yeah city kids most likely would get their butts zapped.

To answer your question though you do not bring the wire back to the charger. You just end it at your last insulator. Yes you can have one strand and end it where you want

Thank you so much, I did not know this, and it is very helpful!!

 

[AshleyFishy]

Your experience is appreciated. Unfortunately I'm in a situation and in a metropolitan area where doing either of those things could get me arrested and/or fired. But I am dealing with largely urban youth that mostly wouldn't know how to disable an electric fence to save their life, so at least I've got that going for me.

yeah city kids most likely would get their butts zapped.

To answer your question though you do not bring the wire back to the charger. You just end it at your last insulator. Yes you can have one strand and end it where you want

Thank you so much, I did not know this, and it is very helpful!!

Welcome.

 

[Bossroo]

I would first check with the local District Attorney before installing the electric wire as to the legality of it in your metropolitan area as well as legal repercussions if junior's mommy and daddy sues you for trying to do bodily harm to their little darling.