I appreciate that I clicked on a video about setting up an electric fence and didnt have to sit through your breakfast and dog training.

Best electric fence video I could find. Too many either assume you already know certain things, don't explain things, or just ramble on for half an hour and put you to sleep. A crash course is all I needed and this helped to fill in a few gaps as far as what I was missing. Cheers!

Learned from an old electrician... drive the ground rod it as far as you can, remove it, fill the hole with water, drive it in again, remove, repeat. Works pretty well in our rock hard clay soil.

I’ve been beyond confused trying to figure out how to set up an electric fence. I’m not the sharpest knife lol, but this video made it soooo easy. Thank you good sir.

Thabk you so much. I have spent hours in the store, on you tube and rereading the manual and all to no avail. Everything and everyone assumes you know things like wire gauge, how to hook up the hot wires and what it looks like, ext... Finally someone did a video that assumes nothing thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Great video. You did a very good job at planning and researching the items needed to make your project successful. Kudos to the Mrs. for hanging in there and helping you get it all together. Enjoyed the short burst of music between steps!

You’re right. Other vids seemed to just skim over what I would consider pertinent information. Appreciate your detailed recommendations. Also appreciate you taking the time and effort to make your video.

Thank you! I've watched a bunch of videos on bear proofing now. Folks are weird, take forever to get to the point and don't really give you a good play by play. I'm getting my first bees tomorrow so I needed to see a good video like this along with the materials list. So helpful!

Just found this video. By far the best video explaining, that I have found yet! Thank you for taking to the time to film, edit and post. You just saved me a lot of wasted energy talking to people at tractor supply who know nothing. Thanks again

Thank you for making this!! I couldn't find anything that really explained it well for those of us who have never done anything like this. Very helpful!

Great explanation in lay terms (which I need), and there was no time wasted in the video. Very concise. I use my legs more with the post-driver so I can drop most of my body weight onto it and use less arm muscle 😉 great video!

Great job! You actually did it like a "real" person and not a 35 year expert! All the things you said out loud are exactly what so many of us "beginners" think word for word! lol! Definitely subscribing!!

Terrific! Now I understand how electric fence works. Before watching this video, I always feel confused about how the electricity comes through the fence and forms a circuit. Now everything is clear.

Very well explained and you are right, most other channels leave out a lot.

My husband got the grounding rod in the same way, but he did it after a rain. He got it done in about 10 minutes. Thank you! This is exactly the video I need to see. I'm getting my first bees on Friday. Posts are in the ground, have to finish wiring them. We have the post to hold the solar controller. Just need to hook it all up and get a few more handles, right now I only have one.

Thank you from Australia! Like a lot of other comments and like you said in your video a lot of prior knowledge is assumed on a lot of info resources! I feel much more confident about doing my electrical fencing now :)

My loving spouse is trying to install his very first electric fence without me as I "type". Your video is the only one I feel will be useful to him. Thank you.

Great job. Looks like your ready for your bees. I need to get my bees started again. Have a great day and weekend!/ Jim

I've been researching all day as I need to get an electric fence set up ASAP, and you're the first person to mention the cut off switch- great idea! Thanks!

Thank you very much this explained a lot,I've been to a bunch of garden centers. I've looked it all the types of electric fences but I haven't bought it because I didn't know exactly what to do. Thank you so much this explained a lot more then I know before this video and everything I've looked at I have a better idea on how to set it up and not buying more than I need or less than I need!!! I think tomorrow I will go by what I need!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Good video. I had a hard time finding a good video on this part of the subject.. Just what I needed to know.

You clearly are a smart guy man. Great job! Going to purchase my materials this morning for my cows and probably buying more sheep lol..Congrats on the fence and hopefully it has been sufficient! ✌🏾

Bro great job,. I've just watched a few tubers,( like more than 10) of how to electric a fence and yip you win as far. Example Explained like a champ. Hope your guys bees are doing great.

Great update on fence and bees.

Great tutorial thank you very much very well presented thanks for sharing, with steel pickets or earth rods there is pneumatic post drivers on the market which drive posts in very hard ground with relative ease.

Best video on electric fences I've seen, thanks!

This is good to learn from-clear, concise and simple to follow. You are an articulator

Of all the vids I’ve watched researching electric fence installation, this has been the best by far!

great informative video. i had to sort through so many that did not teach me anything. thank you!

Awesome tutorial...thanks for explaining in layman's terms...learned alot

Thank you sir for the only video that answered my questions and showed me a visual that I understand. Maybe I’m slow as why it too this long for me but thank you

The ground rod pounding was hilarious 😂 GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU for the information and the comedy

Looks very good! I need to set up one of these for my goats! Keep them out of the garden! L#19 Happy Friday guys!

Thanks for the video. Very clear and simple instructions for us beginners. Instead of driving my grounding rod into the ground vertically, im going to lay mine down horizontally and dig a trench to lay it in.

Great way to keep your bees safe!😊

Good video. This was helpful. I need to install a energizer soon.

NEW SUB HERE! Many ppl over look the importance of grounding the fence line. Good video cheers 🍻 from Prairie Sunset Ranch!!

Great how to vid bud ! Thanks for sharing

This is clear and simple to follow. I will try to do something like it as am having similar problems

Great video. Especially for someone like myself that knows nothing. Thanks!!

Like a previous commenter, We had to soak our ground with a hose prior to installing our t-posts since we had a very dry summer. This made it a lot easier to drive those t-posts in and would probably help get the ground rod in also.

Wow thank you for your demonstration 😊

Hugely helpful, thank you

Best explanation, by far. Well done. Thank you.

Great video on beginner electric ⚡️ fence setup!

Awesome! Love the video. Only driving the ground rod looks intimidating

You live in CT, there is rock an ledge everywhere! It's not you. LOL I live in Stamford and ground rods are impossible. I would make one comment... Your connections to your fence should be 2-4 loops around each wire. Great Job!

Thank you. It helped a lot

That fence looks great! I’m not a great builder of things.... I do it anyway though 😂

Thank you for sharing bro.

Concise and informative, thank you. BTW, you have an electric fence, at some point you will get zapped nature of the beast. It is not that bad, a little worse than wearing wool socks and shuffling across carpet then grabbing a door knob. Best of luck with your apiary, little guys need all the help they can get!

Thanks for this. You should use a deep cycle battery, like those made for solar power, instead of a starter battery, like those used for lawn mowers. I got my battery from Harbor Freight

Good Job I learned a lot. Thanks

Very detailed.....awesome

Thanks for the great video. This is definitely on the list of things for us to do. We are not too far away from you and in bear country. Btw, it’s great to see you both work as a team, it makes everything so much more fun!

Great job and explanation. You can rent at any big box or equip rental place a pneumatic driver with an attachment to drive rods for +/- $100 day. Easy peasy...

Very Good!!!

Thanks for the tips!!!

Great job

I have a old jackhammer bit I welded pc on tube steel about 12” long , turn on jack and drive it down but u need to be able to support when hi up

Post hole drivers and sledge hammers work great for ground rods but if you live in an area with really dense soil you can also rent large hammerdrills from most retail hardware stores, makes it really easy.

It's going to happen sooner or later, might as well get it over with and give us the content we need 😄

The grounding rod. LOL LOL LOL OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Really nice explanation, the one thing I can tell from your video that no one talks about is that you make complete loops. Every wire touches all the way around and then you run the power to each “loop”. The fence I’m trying to repair is missing the last connection back to encircle the fence, I’ve read it’s okay to leave it not fully connected in a loop. Because the animal will still complete the circuit to ground. What say KZfaqrs?

We had a hard time putting in a ground rod one year. We ended up running water to soak the ground. That made it much easier to pound in the ground rod.

You can drive the rod diagonal to get around rocks or you can also bury the ground rod horizontally in a trench.

Nicely done , the cut off switch is a great idea👍 I have unfortunately shocked myself with the electric fence lol, I don't suggest it ~Dustin

I would say that your cut off switch should be turned around with the top of switch above fence post. This way if you needed to disarm the fence it would be easier to reach and pull down then after pulling down there wouldn't be a chance that it could become accidentally charged. For instance after years of use the switch became loose. With the switch being in reverse position once it is disarmed it will stay disarmed until it is armed.

I use a jackhammer for grounding rods, I just take off the the chisel and use the rod itself, a three foot ladder will be very helpful and some strong arms, jackhammer is kinda heavy, but still way faster and less exhausting than actually hammering in any other way, unless the ground is soft

Nice tutorial, very well organized and easy to follow. If grass and weeds grow up and touch the wire, will that cause the system to short out?

Good job

Thank you much. Great explanation for beginners.

I just got all the parts and will be trying to start the installation tomorrow. It is to protect my chickens.

Thanks for the great basic, but helpful, video! Questions: how big is your enclosure? How may hives do you plan on keeping in there? What was your approx cost for all materials? Thanks again!

BEES!!!!!!! Yippee!

Cookie sure loves carrots 😊…. Grass looks great👍

Thanks enjoyed it

I like this video with you and Catherine

The grounding rod cracked me up...I hope it's not that difficult when we go to do ours!

I got a quote for an electric Fence install. Even the price had me Shocked! message for quotes

Oh come on now that is cheating using a meter! Grab that sucker and show us it is working is the only way to know if it is! LMBO. Did I see you having that battery on top of a brick? If so ya want to switch that around as you never want a battery sitting on concrete or brick as it will harm the battery over time. Good job done putting this all together. Looking forward to seeing the real human testing happen. Stay safe and have a great weekend!

I wish the guys at my job talked to me like this. They just mansplain everything instead of teaching me anything NEW🥺 Idky I’m here but I’m glad I clicked on the recommendation👸

Can you use one continuous wire? Like when get the corner run it down and then when you are done with the second run take it down but only cutting it once?

great job I am going to do something like this.

That will do the trick ... Thanks...

Thank you

Great video, very much to the point. Few questions though. Wouldn't it be better to put the switch between battery and the voltage amplifier (transformer/s)? Shouldn't the switch be covered from weather (freezing rain )? I am not an electrician/expert/farmer.

great video, im just concerned that the battery sitting on a concrete block will drain faster considering concrete draws, Also, how will you keep the battery charged?

Connecting to the ends would be a more stable connection, and put jumpers up to each run of wire; right now you’re depending on wires twisted around each run that depends on another wire twisted around another run of wire. It would be more stable to connect to the ends and use something more stable for jumpers to each run.

Great video! Very helpful! loved the power stance bit. I think the brick could possibly not be good for your battery. Rock disrupts the electromagnetic field and will slowly drain a battery...I'm not sure but possible.

Great video for someone like me getting ready to do this for the 1st time, thanks! Is each “lane” it’s own separate wire, or is it all one strand just looped around/down the pole?

You cut the ground roddddd!!!!!😂

Get an SDS Max hammer drill a ground rod driving bit, easy

does the wire on the Tpost have to circle back? I dont think it does but wanted to make sure how it ends

Hi there! Thank you so much for this video!! I am transitioning from a solar charger to a battery due to a lack of sun where my charger is. How long do you find your car batteries are lasting you?

Hey there. Great video. You helped me immensely in getting our setup off the ground. I did the same battery as you, for presumably the same cost efficient reasons as you. However, it is day 10 and I think our battery is already kicked. Wondering what the lifespan on your little lawn and garden battery was?!

Pour water in the hole and swirl the rod in a circular motion. Then pound it again.

Thanks for the instructions. Did you only install one 6 ft ground rod? I'm confused. I ordered a kit from Lowes, arriving today. It comes with three 3 ft ground rods, 3 ground clamps and 50 ft of uninsulated galvanized ground wire. My instructions on the box the charger came in say use insulated ground wires rated at 20,000V to connect ground rods but the Lowes kit comes with uninsulated ground wire. ????? They are making me crazy. Also the charger says drive in 6 ft ground rods 10 ft apart. I'm only running one hot wire one ft above the ground around 50 ft length to keep the animals in the woods from entering my carport and eating my cat. I watched a different KZfaq video about electric fence installation. He only used one 6ft ground rod and only drove it half way in the ground. He has a lot of experience with electric fences and I assume he got good results. He made a barrier around his garden with the electric fence. BTW the ground here has so much rock in it that I would likely spend the remainder of my life trying to drive a 6 ft ground rod all the way in the ground. I ordered a electric fence tester from Amazon so I guess I'll know if my three 3 ft ground rods is enough ground. A plus is the ground here hasn't been dry in 20 years or more.

Pour water around the ground rod as you drive it in and it will help soften the dirt as you drive it in! I’ve had to drive many of those as an electrician! No one likes that part of the job lol Also, you can rent a jack hammer that has a tool that fits over the end of the ground rod

What kind a wire you use for ground, and from the fence to the charger?