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Planning Guides > Product Selection Guide > Gates Guide
Here are some gate ideas: You can make a step-over "gate" for an electric deer fence protecting a summer garden by placing fiberglass electric fence posts on either side of the desired opening; stringing the charged electric fence conductor across the opening; using products 07-03, 07-04, or 07-05 as insulators; and lowering these to a good step-over height (typically between 0 and 18 inches) whenever entry to the garden is desired. A small complete gate for summer or winter electric fences can be built with fiberglass electric fence posts, gate handles (products 05-02, 05-03, 05-04, or 05-07), and electric fence wire, polywire, or polyrope. Run the conductor around the electric fence insulator and post on the left side of the gate a couple of times to secure it, and then run the conductor from this post to the back of your electric fence gate handle. Then tie the electric fence conductor coming in from the right side to the post on the right side of the gate, and use a steel ring (product 05-11) securely connected to this wire or polyconductor for the gate handle to latch onto. If you are using 0.5-inch electric fence polytape as the conductor, anchor the tape on the left side of the electric fence gate opening with product 05-06 (see Catalog, gates section) and use product 05-05 to form a latching point on the right. If you desire a professional-looking electric fence gate up to 20 feet wide attached to wood posts or studded steel T-posts, product 05-01 will provide it (in the catalog see Electric Fence Gates and Accessories). In each of these cases, the arrangement described will serve to electrify the gate. However, a fair amount of voltage will be lost by any electric fence section that depends entirely on the gate connection for its electric current, and of course no charge will get through to that electric fence section while the gate is open. You can fix this problem by running a short length of insulated electric fence hookup wire (see Conductors: Insulated Underground and Hookup Wire) from an active electric fence conductor on one side of the gate to the electric fence conductor or conductors on the other side and burying the insulated electric fence hookup wire some inches beneath the gate opening. At both ends of the hookup wire, expose an inch or so of bare electric fence wire by removing the insulation, and connect this bared wire to metal electric fence wire or polywire by means of a split-bolt clamp (08-33). |