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Planning Guides > Electric Fence Options (3 of 3 pages) Electric Fence Options, continued What this means is that where there are severe grounding problems, or large deer populations, or established deer paths, or a large area to be protected, or commercial crops (vineyards, orchards, etc.) with high value being threatened, it becomes useful to seek more robust answers. One such answer, probably the best, is a high-tensile electric fence. If one builds it tall (6 feet is a good height), one reaches a height where few if any white-tails or other deer will leap over marginally visible wires; so jumping ceases to be an issue. The tension in the wires eliminates accidental contact between wires, making it practical to alternate positively charged and neutral wires, thereby resolving any grounding issues raised by dry or frozen soil. The wires under tension and the posts in the ground are more firmly set than the comparable wires and posts in a baited fence, so maintenance problems are much reduced. And since the fence features relatively thick galvanized steel wire, electrical conductivity is not an issue, even in a fence many miles long. For these reasons, high-tensile electric fences have long been favored by farmers with vineyards, orchards, or other croplands to protect. Such fences will also guard estate, institutional, and residential landscapes at costs well below those of barrier deer fence. For more information about high-tensile deer fence see About Our 6-Wire (High-Tensile) Kits. On the other hand, high-tensile electric deer fences are in fact large and imposing electric fences. So one can imagine many residential and estate setting where they simply would not fit in, and where either the low-key 3-D electric fence or a more costly but highly effective barrier deer fence would provide a better option. For purposes of comparison, a good overview of barrier deer fence alternatives is provided on our website www.invisible-deer-fence.com. One can also quickly compare the three types of electric fences just described by going to the kits section and examining each of the three kits offered. Doing these things will not cover all possible options. For example, it will not deal with a highly touted electric deer fence in which all the posts are cantilevered outward (we have not dealt with this because the engineering required seems too elaborate to be cost-effective). But such a cursory examination should enable one to cover most of the practical possibilities by reviewing a limited number of alternatives spanning very nearly the full range of effective deer fencing available today. |