Fencing Guidelines

• Mains Fence Energisers

• Battery/Solar Fence Energisers

• Fence Earth System

*Important Notes:

• Ensure fence earth system is at least 10M from any ESB earth systems. This includes ESB poles, transformers and pump houses.

• Fence earth systems should not be setup up within 50-100M of a dairy parlour.

• Earth bars for mains fence controllers should be 3-4M apart, preferably in damp ground.

*Many farmers are needlessly reducing the effectiveness of their electric fences by failing to earth them adequately. Almost 75% of poor results are directly due to faulty earthing systems.

Common causes of poor results are:

• Insufficient earth rods.

• Badly jointed wires.

• Poor connections to earth rods.

• Earth rods too close together.

• Earth rods not long enough.