Simple Portable Electric Fence Posts

Simple Portable Electric Fence Posts FENCING Miscellaneous Jack Dueck Calgary Alta recently sent FARM SHOW photos of homemade portable electric fence posts that his son Ron developed “It’s a simple but inexpensive and handy idea ” says Dueck “It’s basically a 3-ft high wooden post inserted into a 4-in high 10-in dia concrete base The electric wire fits inside a 2-in deep slot cut into the top of the post “The posts are sturdy and can withstand high winds yet they’re easy to move by hand so we can stand them up anywhere we want To tighten the wire we just rotate the post 2 or 3 times ” He starts with a 10-ft long 2 by 6 and cuts it into 6 pieces each 2 by 3 by 40 in long He then drills a ½-in dia hole into each end of the wood pieces about 1 1/2 in from the end At the other end of the post he cuts a 2-in deep slot from the end up to the hole Then he cuts a 10-in dia sono-tube concrete form into 4-in lengths To assemble the post he inserts a 6-in length of 3/8-in dia rebar through the hole in the post and then places the post with the rebar into the sono-tube Then he mixes fast-setting post cement fills the sono-tube and lets it set overnight “You need to have some arrangement to keep the post erect as the concrete sets Setting time varies but the cement usually sets up enough to support the posts in about 5 min Also you want to place some poly under the sono-tubes so the cement doesn’t adhere to the floor ” says Dueck “We use these posts around gardens and feedlots and to control where animals graze They’re very simple and inexpensive You could build 20 or 30 of these posts for $100 and they’ll last year after year “We got the idea because we raise a few horses and their curiosity makes them difficult to control We got tired of the plastic commercial electric fence posts that you stick into the ground; they work well during the summer but are useless during the winter if you have frozen ground because you can’t move them around ” he notes Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jack Dueck Calgary Alta Canada ph 403 815-9384; cgyrv@yahoo com

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