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Permalink Reply by Jena Becker on December 4, 2011 at 10:50pm

We use 3 strands of hot wire hooked to rubber handles.  To open the gate I start at the bottom and hook each handle to the wire above it.  I hook it right in to the loop where the wire goes through the handle.  That way you can just grab the top handle and open up.  That is our setup for the two large (~20') opening we drive through.  We have pipe gates on hinges at walk through locations.

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Permalink Reply by Jesse on December 5, 2011 at 11:33am

I bought a drive-thru electric fence gate seen here. I haven't installed it yet, so I can't tell you much about it. What I like about the concept though is that it spring-shuts on it's own, so you really can just drive a tractor or a truck right through it without having to get out and unlatch and open the gate. Then it just swing shuts behind you. I'm certainly curious if ALL the animals we keep on our pasture will respect it and if the hanging electric streamers will really be effective to keep them all in. 

Has anyone else tried this gate? When I get it installed next spring I can tell you more about what I think. 

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Permalink Reply by Chris Stelzer on December 7, 2011 at 3:09pm

Greg Judy uses a fiberglass rod with multiple strips of electrified poly TAPE, not wire for his gates. He uses this because the poly tape is very visible to the animals, and make an easy to use gate. Attach the strands of poly tape spaced however you want to a fixed post, then attach the other ends to a round, fiberglass rod. Then you can secure it to another fixed post which is an inch away, in any matter you like. I've see it done with a fixed loop of wire that goes from the fixed post to the temporary fiberglass post. This is common in older style barb wire gates if you are familiar with those.

-Chris

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Permalink Reply by Chris Stelzer on December 7, 2011 at 3:10pm

This is also a good solution!

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Permalink Reply by Landry on December 12, 2011 at 2:04pm

Possibly any pictures for the setup? I use poly tape but I have trouble with it keep as good of a charge as good as polywire or Hotwire. 

Chris Stelzer said:

Greg Judy uses a fiberglass rod with multiple strips of electrified poly TAPE, not wire for his gates. He uses this because the poly tape is very visible to the animals, and make an easy to use gate. Attach the strands of poly tape spaced however you want to a fixed post, then attach the other ends to a round, fiberglass rod. Then you can secure it to another fixed post which is an inch away, in any matter you like. I've see it done with a fixed loop of wire that goes from the fixed post to the temporary fiberglass post. This is common in older style barb wire gates if you are familiar with those.

-Chris

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