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DIY Electric fencing - any thoughts?

Former Community Member over 4 years ago

So we have a fox problem and metal fencing all around the detached house, they come in and drop faeces everywhere and with a little child it is a safety issue really.

Is it possible to make a DIY electric fence (mains powered or through a 12V DC adapter supplied through an IP65 outdoor socket)?

I would look to run a seperate circuit for the outdoor socket for this purpose, but what should it be protected behind on a consumer unit - MCB / RCD / RCBO?

I guess at every instance of electrocution of the fox it would trip the circuit but I could accept a daily of trip protection if required.

Is there any legislation surrounding this?

0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

So my .22 would work perfect except that I have never seen a single one! They always come when I am sleeping and my grounds on all 4 sides are difficult to get coverage of.

I would need to install some sort of motion sensors and wake up from sleep to hunt them...
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0 Alan Capon over 4 years ago

OMS:

. . . I've seen the buggers inside substations that have 8 foot high electric fencing on the inner line - and it bloody hurts to touch that . . .

Indeed it does. The stock fences are only a kV or so. The substation fences are about 7kV. They are designed to “throw off” anyone who climbs them, as well as giving an alarm back to grid control.

Regards,

Alan.
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0 Jaymack over 4 years ago

When in South Africa and kept Rottweillers as you do, I had a similar problem ... but in keeping dogs in and to stop them burrowing below a slabbed, concrete wall.

I bought a custom mains transformer, and made an electric fence from thin gauge, galvanised wire on insulated supports; the supports were square, steel, reinforcing rods driven into the ground, and for insulation - plastic tubing slid over the rods, squashed at the top to create an insulated support and stop the tube from sliding down.

An effective, non lethal solution, ? I expect with elf and safety in the UK you would need warning notices, not that the foxes can read though.

Jaymack
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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Chris Pearson:

As OMS says, a .22 will do the job nicely. Best if they are suppressed - don't want to upset the neighbours who feed them.

Use subsonic ammo - the workings will be louder than the round - except for the "thump" of round on target of course

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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

FaeLLe:

So my .22 would work perfect except that I have never seen a single one! They always come when I am sleeping and my grounds on all 4 sides are difficult to get coverage of.

I would need to install some sort of motion sensors and wake up from sleep to hunt them...

Dishes of dog food would do the trick - they'll be along in no time.

Personally, I'd leave them alone this time of year and then thin the population out late autumn

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DIY Electric fencing - any thoughts?

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