Invisible fence

[21bubba]

I have a four rail wooden fence. Can I attach the wires ( with insulaters ) to the top rail and to the bottom rail. In effect making the fence completely above ground?

 

[KenB]

Seems like a technical question - can the transmitter wire be run above ground and if you'd need insulators on a wooden fence - that the Invisible Fence folks would be glad to answer for you.

Just curious, why do you want to run the wire on the top AND bottom of the fence?

Ken

 

[21bubba]

The wire needs to run in a loop, from the transmitter then back. In a normal install the wires is buried in the ground around the perimitur of the area you want covered. I have three rock walls that make up my backyard with the fourth side being a fence. I figured maybe I could just attach the wire to the top of the fence and attach the return to the bottom. Fence is about a 100 ft. long. So 200 ft. of wire total. That distance is weel withi the capacity of the transmitter. T he company hasn't been a lot of help. All they can tell me is read the manual.

 

[KenB]

Won’t matter if the wire is buried or not, the signal will still radiate as long as the loop is intact and wires are not twisted.

 

[Kaizen]

Is this a small dog or really tall rock walls. Getting the wires too close will cancel the signal. I wrapped around each other to make a safe area. Not sure what the cancellation distance is in yours. Make sure you leave a slack loop somewhere in case you need it in future. You can always mock up a 20 foot run and see what the collar does.


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[kbs2244]

The nice thing about this idea is the above ground fence will slow down the dogs.
In my area the dogs have learned that they can run through the hot zone at speed and avoid any shock.

 

[SweetD]

My wife's uncle has part of his invisible fence run up in the trees about 8 feet up, works fine.

 

[brownsmustang]

The nice thing about this idea is the above ground fence will slow down the dogs.
In my area the dogs have learned that they can run through the hot zone at speed and avoid any shock.

This is why I went wireless. That and there's nothing to bury. I had a JRT that loved to escape, the guy at the pet store said that smart dogs will figure out that they can just run through the wired kind. The wireless ones shock them for 30 seconds. But I had a friend with a JRT that would lay just close enough to make the collar beep, lay there until the beeping drained the battery and then would take off.

 

[99LeCouch]

Yes, it works just fine.

Our hound/lab mix is an escape artist. Putting it through our chain link fence and a 9 volt powered collar helped stop that behavior.

 

[machsnell]

This is why I went wireless. That and there's nothing to bury. I had a JRT that loved to escape, the guy at the pet store said that smart dogs will figure out that they can just run through the wired kind. The wireless ones shock them for 30 seconds. But I had a friend with a JRT that would lay just close enough to make the collar beep, lay there until the beeping drained the battery and then would take off.

Man that's a smart dog right there!

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