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Day 46, someone wanted a butt rub, and it wasn't me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPCLpZCbTU

So I went yesterday and bought a ac charger and some new fence

and ripped down the old fence and weedwacked again

and spent the next 3 hours rerunning fencing and testing it

and spent the next hour with them making sure they were cool with the wire, which they were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9pfLZp_MVo

my buddy stopped by so I was talking with him for a half hour, I went back down to the barn and one of the pigs was missing, are you fricking kidding me! So I called for her and she came running out of the woods again, and I got them back in the barn and locked them up for the night, so today I'm going to grab some t-posts and welded wire and run it on the outside of the electric to add another layer, awesome

so yesterday once again I went and picked up some more supplies, 17 gauge wire, flagging tape and some other odds and ends

and spent the next half hour re-running the wire

I made sure nothing was touching anywhere, went and hooked the power and ground, turned the charger on, and nothing

At this point I'm ready to lose it, So I go down to the farm store, one of the workers is pretty knowledgeable on fencing, so I explained everything I had done up to this point in time, I had a gallagher s17 solar for 3 years, worked fine, some reason the thing died, think the battery is shot, switched to a 120 volt charger, not working, company says I need to switch from tape to wire, do that and still nothing. He responded it either has to be a short or the ground is bad, I said I have the same ground I have used for the last three years, it's pounded into a area that has standing water all year round. He asked how I had the ground connected, I said the alligator clips that come with the s17, he said you should probably get some ground clamps and wire it directly, so I picked up some ground clamps and went back and wired everything up, turned it on, and nothing. So being the level headed person I am, i took my sledge hammer and beat the heck out of the ground rod till there was only about 7 inches sticking out of the ground versus the two feet I had prior. I wired it back up and used the alligator clip as well, turned it on. Success! We had 2000 volts all around the fence. Moral of the story, don't trust your ground rod that you have used for over three years. I hate to say it, but the sounds of the pigs getting shocked through out the night was music to my ears.