As a followup to the last meeting at the Howsepian’s on electric fencing, this post provides links to suggested products to setup a portable electric fence. Since I started using a portable electric fence last year, I have not had any issues with raccoons or other varmits stealing our grapes or tree fruit. Its easy to setup and move, and not very expensive. In summary you will need an electric fence charger (either plug in or solar), electric fence posts, fence wire, a tester, a rubber mallet to tap in the posts. A dawn to dusk sensing outlet also is helpful since it will automatically turn the wires on and off. Here is a summary of what I use.. there are hundreds of other options available, so use this as your starting point:
FYI: I just tap in the plastic fence poles with a rubber hammer and find that two strands of hot rope or wire at the levels that varmits walk, but not touching too much weeds works quite well. For the ground, you can just wrap the grounding wire onto a metal post from the vineyard, and it will ground across all posts on that row, or dive in metal grounding posts per instructions. Reach out if you have any questions.
fence charger: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HHO9EE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
tester:
wire:
posts:
light sensor:
rubber mallet:
