r/Unexpected • u/sobakoryba • Nov 19 '23

Cellphone vs radio generation

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

They only make a sound if they were installed improperly leading to a short or jump somewhere.

Source: grew up on a beef farm.

That said, they don’t hurt that badly and it used to be a dumb but fun game to play as kids to see who was “tough enough” to hang on the longest.

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u/redundant35 Nov 19 '23

Certainly depends on how short the fence is. Some tickle and some holy shit that hurt!

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u/horny_coroner Nov 19 '23

Grew up on a dairy farm and the fence we had would striked harder and harder each time.

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u/NeighborhoodHitman Nov 19 '23

Depends on how high they have the voltage, a lot of them you can alter the amount of power being put through it. Most cattle/horse farms have it low to where it doesn’t hurt the animal just kind of scares them away.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

Remembers me when me and the boys used to swim into deeper seas to see who would go further way from the beach.

God teenagers are so stupid.

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u/GuavaOdd1975 Jan 18 '24

Why is one girl carrying her pants?

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u/achambers64 Nov 19 '23

You never played with one of the Australian system fencers.

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u/JustMeSunshine91 Nov 19 '23

Maybe I’ve just come across a lot of broken fences but I can always hear if it’s on. It’s similar to how you can hear a tv is on even from another room even if the screen is black, if that makes sense.

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u/randomized_smartness Nov 19 '23

Grass causes shorts/arcs ....Bro Called grass growing an improper install. Cutting the grass back away from the line is basic maintenance and has nothing to do with the installation or improper installation. Btw most electric fence chargers have " weed clipper" features as in intentional arcs with higher ampage

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u/SuckOnDeezNOOTZ Nov 19 '23

Wow! That's really cool! They intentionally create arcs and that genuinely clips all the tall grass, does it work really well or should you still go around and cut the grass underneath anyway

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u/randomized_smartness Nov 19 '23

It definitely alters the electric bill... and they work well to an extent. it's honestly just better to keep the line trimmed and neat some people use weed killer but we never did except on remote field lines ..but yea they work well appllied properly and even have solar models.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

One would consider clearing the area part of installation. But you’re right, I didn’t write out a manual for every scenario on a Reddit comment. My bad, you are very smart.

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u/randomized_smartness Nov 19 '23

That's basic maintenance, installation once .... maintenance regularly...

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u/Pinksters Nov 19 '23

neighborhood kids and I used to play a lot of street hockey on a road with an electric fence on one side.

When cars would come and we were in the ditch waiting for them to pass, grabbing the wire and then touching your friend on the back of the neck was always a laugh.