2016 Premier Fence

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ELECTRIC NETTING 113
Two ways to make handling netting difficult instead of easy.
1. (above left) Even if you‘ve first folded the net correctly (as in step 1 below), you can
still make net “handling” difficult if you roll up the net beginning with the posts.
This buries inside the black tie strings and risks entangling net with post spikes.
2. (above right) Rolling the net from one end to the other as you would roll a carpet.
It’s hard work and takes a long time—both to roll and eventually unroll.
How to remove/store netting
Folding then rolling up the net the correct way…
Step 1. First fold the net by picking it up sequentially by the
posts. The netting naturally folds into sections as you do this.
Keep the posts together in a bundle in your hands.
Step 2. Lay the folds neatly on the ground. Starting at the end
opposite the posts, roll the folded net toward the posts. When this is
done, use the exposed end-post tie strings to secure it as a roll.
A common error
Allowing the
lowest live strand to
be caught by post’s
metal ground spike.
Result—a direct
short through the
energized strand to
the metal spike and
into the soil. Voltage
will be very low.
Animals will
escape and you will
be frustrated!
Spraying PermaNet to reduce
grass contact—
Without herbicides weeds can render netting
useless by midsummer in areas with rapid grass
growth. The bottom photo shows how this
fence line looked 2 weeks after spraying.
Too much green vegetation
When touching live strands, grass will
drain the energy out of an electric fence.
3 Solutions: 1) Move the fence, then
mow; 2) kill the grass with herbicide; 3)
graze/trim the grass under offset wires.
(above) To reduce green grass contact we spray a
narrow strip of herbicide along netting fence lines.
(left) Energized wire
caught by steel spike. This
creates an immediate “dead
short” in the fence.
Common Mistakes with Netting
Step 1. Correct Step 2. Correct
#2 Incorrect
#1 Incorrect