More Irish Tales

[the doctor]

Hello All,  

Now before I start this I wish to confirm that I have never seen it, only hearing the story.  It caught me on the hop, so wanted some opinions.

A local chicken farmer is fed up with foxes taking his stock so has come up with a pretty extreme control measure. Any fences he put up in the past are tunnelled by the tenacious little critters.   He has erected a second fence 6 ft further out and run a lattice of live bare wire on insulators in the no mans land.  No I am not talking electric fence technology here but good old mains without an RCD.

Is there any circumstances where it could be deemed OK? I am thinking of chapter 41 and obstacles here. I mean if it was robustly fenced and policed with notices etc.  As I said it freaked me out, when I heard but did start me thinking.

BTW,  I hear he turns off every morning and retrieves lots of bushy tailed bodies in the morning mist.....Irish mist  :slap

So he is happy, the chickens are happy and the foxes are definitely not happy.  Me? I am sitting on the fence with my hard hat on

 

[pewter]

I wounder if i could do the same in my bins.

 

[steptoe]

Hello All,  

Now before I start this I wish to confirm that I have never seen it, only hearing the story.  It caught me on the hop, so wanted some opinions.

A local chicken farmer is fed up with foxes taking his stock so has come up with a pretty extreme control measure. Any fences he put up in the past are tunnelled by the tenacious little critters.   He has erected a second fence 6 ft further out and run a lattice of live bare wire on insulators in the no mans land.  No I am not talking electric fence technology here but good old mains without an RCD.

Is there any circumstances where it could be deemed OK? I am thinking of chapter 41 and obstacles here. I mean if it was robustly fenced and policed with notices etc.  As I said it freaked me out, when I heard but did start me thinking.

BTW,  I hear he turns off every morning and retrieves lots of bushy tailed bodies in the morning mist.....Irish mist  :slap

So he is happy, the chickens are happy and the foxes are definitely not happy.  Me? I am sitting on the fence with my hard hat on

make sure you get off it before nightfall  

bad day explode

 

[Richard-the-Ninth]

I bet its not true, (the bit about using 240, since electric fences have a higher voltage) However, here is what I would guess it is based on.

This is a genuine picture with an electric fence and is from South Africa

 

[steptoe]

But an electric fence is a step up from a 12volt battery so barely any amperage whatsoever

You can hold onto an electric fence if you are a young stupid boy growing up in the country :|

 

[the doctor]

No,

I have been assured that the wire is connected straight to the main, so if you get shocked off this, it is worse than a jag....

 

[Blue Duck]

Hello All,

Now before I start this I wish to confirm that I have never seen it, only hearing the story. It caught me on the hop, so wanted some opinions.

A local chicken farmer is fed up with foxes taking his stock so has come up with a pretty extreme control measure. Any fences he put up in the past are tunnelled by the tenacious little critters. He has erected a second fence 6 ft further out and run a lattice of live bare wire on insulators in the no mans land. No I am not talking electric fence technology here but good old mains without an RCD.

Is there any circumstances where it could be deemed OK? I am thinking of chapter 41 and obstacles here. I mean if it was robustly fenced and policed with notices etc. As I said it freaked me out, when I heard but did start me thinking.

BTW, I hear he turns off every morning and retrieves lots of bushy tailed bodies in the morning mist.....Irish mist :slap

So he is happy, the chickens are happy and the foxes are definitely not happy. Me? I am sitting on the fence with my hard hat on

Should that be red mist? :lol:

I heard a tale once of an old tinker who never paid his electricity bill when they came to disconnect his supply he wired his door knocker to the mains the guy was seriously injured and ended up in hospital and the tinker ended up in the Crown Court.

IMO while its quite funny it could end up being quite serious.

Maybe he needs a 100ma rcd?

:|

 

[Andy™]

if you hopped through 'no-mans land' then you would be fine

 

[Sharpend]

But he's got a problem with foxes not kangaroos!

 

[misssweden]

I bet its not true, (the bit about using 240, since electric fences have a higher voltage) However, here is what I would guess it is based on.

This is a genuine picture with an electric fence and is from South Africa

:O

Serious warnings needed before any pictures of snakes are posted on this forum! I'm now stuck on the sofa unable to put my feet on the floor just in case there's a snake lurking underneath ready to bite my heels! (Yes, I am extremly fobic and seriously paranoid.)

 

[ProDave]

My In Laws in Australia bought a derelict run down farm, with an old wooden Queenslander house on it.

The first job before they could even begin to renovate it was to get the snakes out.

 

[Andy™]

you do know the snake would be able to get onto the sofa, dont you?

 

[misssweden]

Guys, that's not helpful! My mum once told me about a pet snake that escaped and was found in the toilet in the flat below. I checked the toilet every time I went to the bathroom for years afterwards!

 

[Andy™]

its only a snake! now if it was a spider then it would need killed

 

[misssweden]

There's no such thing as only a snake! However if it was a spider, rat, cockroach or a 12-footed monster from the deepest, darkest parts of Discworld it wouldn't bother me the slightest.

 

[Andy™]

And here are some more snake images, just for Mrs Sweden...

WARNING: SNAKE IMAGES BELOW... VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Are you sure you still want to view them?
 

Really?

well here you go...

now that wasnt too bad was it?

 

[misssweden]

:slap :slap :slap

And there was me having to man up and be really brave to scroll down!

I used to be sooo good at that back in the days of the indestructable Nokias. That's the only kind of snake I like.

(Anyway, Mrs Sweden? When did we get married? )

 

[Andy™]

i was good at it too... best phone game ever, more phones should have it as standard

 

[misssweden]

Beats candycrush by miles. I miss it.

 

[Andy™]

im sure ive got an old nokia somewhere... maybe time to get it out again