Solar electric bear fencer for my bee yard.

RezDog

Member
When my last dog was young, she could easily scale a 6’ chain link fence. To keep her from bothering the neighbourhood, I put up an electric inside the chain link. It was very effective. We also had a husky wolf cross, she would get angry with the much larger dog and lure him over, and then push him into the fence.
I hope you manage to preserve hives, honey and bees with that. Is it specific voltage for bears or just a generic fencer that you running?
 

32t

Active Member
Horses are on the low end of the spectrum for fences and bears with their hair etc. are at the other.

The fencer in the picture is run with a 12 volt battery and pegs my meter at 7,000 volts without a fence attached.

My 6 volt battery one that is around my bee yard today was testing between 4 to 5,000 volts before I cleaned up the weeds and 5-6,000 afterwards depending on which strand and where I tested it.

Lots of conflicting advertising etc. on what the fence chargers deliver and what is needed.......

There is not a huge bear problem in my area but they are there. I hope the fencer turns out to be a waste of money. Like insurance you hope you never need.

My first 6 volt fencer cost about the price of 1 bee hive to buy and install $300. I just got two 12 volts ones with 1 solar panel, box for it to be in, and much misc. posts etc. for $100.

One of those deals that you don't really need but to good to pass up on!

I could run the 12 volt ones on just batteries without the solar easily for a month and then just change and recharge the batteries at home. Then I could use the solar panel to charge up a couple of large 12 v batteries I have and run LED lights off them in my garage.

I better get out to the garage to do something rather than sitting around and thinking of other possible projects!
 

32t

Active Member
I have had a few things hit the fence and make minor to medium messes of the wires over the last couple of years.

If it was a bear skunk or coon I have no idea.

They say that bears are teachable and better to not let them get a taste in the first place.

Once they know there is food that they want on the other side a fence isn't going to stop them.
 

Bruno

Administrator
Staff member
Reminds me of the time I visited Robert Williams and he took a gun when going outside because there was a bear in the neighborhood.
We have many concerns in Belgium, but encountering dangerous animals is not one of them :)
 

32t

Active Member
A bull in a pasture scares me much more than a bear. I tend to blame mean dogs but it is usually more of how the owners train and treat them that scare me.

Insects scare or worry me more than animals. You might not even notice that they bite you and transmit a disease.........

I am close to a person that has lost part of their sight and continues to fight it after catching a disease that is in bird feces or soil.

I ramble but there are more "wild" things that worry me more than having a bear in the woods.
 

Bruno

Administrator
Staff member
Yeah. And when all is said and done, bears are big, noticeable, and relatively easy to deal with.
Some mosquito borne parasite or fungal dust, much less so.
 

Mike Blue

Member
On canoe trips in the Boundary Waters, we'd encounter tourists who expressed a normal concern about bears in the woods. Most locals would be very reassuring that bears in the woods was a rare and usually benign (if the noise was a chipmunk in the first place) encounter. To help them out seeing bears we'd send them to the dumpster behind the Dairy Queen or Pizza Hut. Bears know where easy food is found.
 
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32t

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My mother went to visit around the bee hives and brought her dog.

The dog seemed interested until he touched the fence.

I now know it works for dogs!
 

RezDog

Member
I had a dog for a long time. As a young dog she would go over a 6’ chain link fence. I put an electric around the inside so she would quit terrorizing the neighbour. It was quite effective.
 

32t

Active Member
Fixed the fence today.

Didn't do a perfect fix as I am hoping to move them in the spring so I am trying to get them through until then.

I left the bottom row { 4-6 inches high} unhooked because of weeds and snow etc.

But have over 7,000 volts on the top 3 rows!
 
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