Sometime in April my electric fence stopped zapping the critters. I assumed it was just the trees shorting out on the fence so trimmed the branches back before we headed to Auckland. Alas while we were away the horses busted out a couple of times and fat Mac was constantly just leaning over the tape, stretching it out and eating about 3 break shifts worth each time I shifted it. With 3 horses on 5 acres in drought prone Marlborough I can't affoard to have one fatty and not enough grass for them all so in desperation when I got back from up north I pulled into a farm shop while working and spent $400 on a big assed doozy solar fence unit (had a small one 20 yrs ago which no longer holds a charge sadly). I swear, hearing that electric fence zap Mac when he first leaned over it was worth the $400!!!! Seeing the tidy, straight eaten lines that don't stretch beyond the electric tape, EXTREMELY satisfying. And the savings on power ain't bad either! Think I'll leave the mains unit undiagnosed for a while, no rush now :)
And today the ponies got their teeth done, happy campers all round.
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