For openings or breaks on interior fences used to divide a large pasture into individual paddocks, a simpler gate opening, like a single wire attached to a gate handle, may be adequate. For more information on planning your fence, check out our fence planning guide. There should be one gate handle for every electrified wire. Electrified gates are made from the same type of wire as the material used in your fence line.
So the fence remains electrified, even when the gate is open, you will need a 20,volt underground hookup wire to carry the electrical current under the gate opening to the other side. A non-electrified metal gate also requires an underground wire. Home Fence Gate Placement. Fence Gates: Placement and Installation Plan gate openings in your fence in locations where people, animals, and equipment need easy access to barns, stables or pastures.
Using an insulator at the non-hook end also ensures there is no leakage of electricity from the gate into the ground. For a permanent electric fence gateway, the gateway system itself is set up in the same way, with the handle hooked into the live anchor.
But to maintain the flow of electricity across the gateway, so there is no break in the current around the fence you need to connect all the fence lines together with line connectors, on both sides of the opening. Then you need to run a heavily insulated underground cable to connect the lines from one side to the other. The cable should be buried at least 25 to 30 cm below ground, and it is recommended that you protect it from heavy traffic damage, or from being cut by stones, by running it in a plastic pipe and turning the ends of the pipe down to prevent water getting in.
Do not use the gate itself to transmit the power from one side of the gate to the other, the handle has a weak connection when it is hooked into the insulated anchor. It is recommended that your gate is made from the same cable that you have used for the rest of the fence system. Your animals have learnt to respect the tape, cord or rope that their fencing is constructed with, so would recognise the gate as a continuation of the fencing.
Having said that, you could opt for a bungee cord gate, which is basically an elasticated version of the electric fence rope. Or there is the spring wire gate option, although this is not recommended for use with horses. If your electric fence is constructed of two or more lines, you will probably need to install a gate for each line.
However, if you decide to just have the one gate cord, the rule of thumb is to put this one gate at the chest height of the animals you are fencing in. Gate handles come in various shapes and sizes, and with different connections, depending on whether your fence is constructed using tape, wire, rope or bungee rope. Some handles come with a spring, to allow you to stretch the cable more tightly, but make opening and closing easy.
There is also a great selection of colours, from the sedate black, through to red and orange for easy visibility. To make life easier, you can buy handles, anchors and insulators individually, or there are gate kits, which ensures you have the right handle for your gate. The metal, live, part of the anchor has holes into which the gate handle can be hooked, and to connect the handle to the electric current. With the many different fence cable options available, tape, wire or rope, there are different gate anchors to accommodate whichever cable you have chosen to use.
The other end of the gate cable is connected to the gate post using an insulator, which stops the electric current in the gate cable from leaking into the ground. If you are dividing your field into sections to allow your horses to graze together, but still be separated, requiring more than one gateway, there are gate anchors with two and three hook connections to allow easy movement of individual animals. Log in.
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