That has GOT to hurt.

Yeah, I saw a kid do that on a horse fence.Oh he was in agony but I was laughing my axx off.Which brings to mind another true story. One of my work buddies had a Keonig bed work truck,full of tools of course. He was worried about getting robbed so he hooked up a neon transformer to his truck at night (100,000 volts, guys). I told him he was gonna kill somebody but he did'nt care if they were trying to steal his tools ( I agree).Next day the crazy dog woman of Georgetown comes by with her pack of 30-40 walking down the street when one male sniffs Claude's truck + hikes a leg.Next thing you see is a blue streak between dog dick + vehicle.That poor pup hit the ground on his belly doing a few inches progress at a time,while moaning seriously all the time.He lived. After that when the mad woman took her dogs down the street when they got to Claude's house that one dog would go to the other side of the street before be rejoininmg the pack after Claude's (there's gotta be something terrible there driveway.).

I had ocasion to try out an electric fence when I was about 10 years old. There were about 15 cows on the farm where we were and the calves were kept in a part of the paddock with an electric fence. I watched my father time and again going to feed them with a bucket of milk in each hand and just step over the fence and carry on to empty the milk into the calf feeder. I often helped him out with various chores and this time I was going to feed the calves for him. Did any of you realise that a 10 years olds inseam length is quite a bit shorter than an adults so the inevitable happened and I got one leg over the fence before I realised the problem. Can you imagine the difficulty there is to get both legs back on the same side of the fence. My father saw it about to happen and could do nothing to stop it and probably wouldn have been able to as he was laughing so hard. Needless to say he had to get more feed for the calves and reminded me of it many times over the years.

my boy called it 'going over the fence like a man'
well once anyway.
he still hears about it at 25.

Yeh, there are some electric fences that will give a pretty good shock. On the other hand, most of them have very high voltage but almost no amps to their juice. With an Alternating Current fence, it can also be a series of quick jolts, not one massive long one. More asurprise than actual "shock", if you aren't expecting it. Those with a Direct Current converter built in give a continuous shock.

What I'm getting at is that the great majority of them, once you have a bit of experience with them, are no big deal to touch or even to hold onto.

I used hog wire, topped with 3-strand barbed wire and then a last very top strand of electric fence for my cattle. The first few times I touched it, I automatically jumped back from it, but I soon learned to test for fence failures just by grabbing the wire and holding it....once about every 20 feet or so of fence.

It just taught the livestock where not to go. It didn't stop them from going there if they really wanted to. That's why a guy had to check it regularly...if some old cow (or even more often, a horse) really wanted to lean over that fence for some greener pasturage that's always on the other side, they'd they'd quickly learn to just lean into the electric fence until it broke.

Then I had to find the break and fix it. And you really need to leave the fence on both to find the break and to fix it. Nobody wants to have to walk a half mile back to the barn to turn it on again, and then find the fence still isn't all repaired and working.

(You CAN carry a fence circuit-tester with you, but with a fence stretcher/hammer, some spare wire, and a couple of other tools, staples, etc. to lug anyway, also carrying a circuit tester wasn't worth the hassle to me.)

Guys probably figured they had rubber boots on and snow wouldn't ground. Made that mistake myself.

Grizz