Gabriel Paiva Lago

Hi everyone,

I'd love to hear from you what is your opinion on how to start with designing and building small structures on skids.

It's a really new subject for me and I'd like to start learning about it from somewhere. I'd love to hear if you'd have some references about older posts here, maybe books or websites?

Thank you so much

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using temporary electric fence reels very successfully until this morning at my place.

Unfortunately someone came overnight and stole my reels, which I normally hang on the high tensile electrified steel wire at the boundary of my property.

Thankfully the animals didn’t escape from what was left of their previous electrified enclosure (the reels were taken by cutting them off from wire between them and the temporary enclosure). Their electric fence training is paying off.

I’m extremely disappointed as it used to be a very easy way to create small areas for my animals to graze from and move them in a couple of days later.

I’m buying new reels and starting again but now thinking of a new way to set it all up and having the reels away from the boundaries where they could be easily taken again.

I can electrify the fence from the other end of the wire attaching it to the electrified boundary. I do need to find a good solution to support/hold the reels (3 of them at this stage of the animal training) on the end though, away from the boundary.

I was wondering if anyone would have any similar experience with reel supports/holders put in the middle of a paddock.

Thank you once again for you help.

[quote=Douglas Something like JB Weld might do the job though, if you prep the surfaces well. If you can clamp the outer surfaces somehow, the repair might last longer.


I found the JB Weld product here. I’ll give it a go.

The good thing is if I manage to prepare the surfaces well and apply the product I can reassemble the pump and its bolts will work a bit like the clamp you suggested I think. 🤞

Thank you again.

Hi Douglas,

Thank you for the suggestions.

I think this pump might have come defective to start with. The supplier is obviously saying it’s something else, nothing to do with the pump construction. As I can’t prove anything, as it was an online purchase and because of the lower cost of it I think I’ll be left with at as it is.

It’s good you think it’s ok trying fixing it. I’ll have a look on the product you suggested to see if I find it here in Australia.

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I want to repair my small 1hp centrifugal pump which has a crack and stopped being about to pump water from our dam.

It’s a very cheap cast iron bodied pump. The body cracked, possibly because it’s a very cheap and low quality pump. Anyways, the crack might have been caused also by the frosty weather (-1C min) and frozen water.

This little pump was great, strong enough for my applications. Shame it failed, just after 4 months 🥺.

I’m adding some photos so you can have an idea what our looks like.

I want to repair it until I sort a new and better pump (maybe stainless steel this time).

I’m thinking to apply some silicone around the affected area. Not sure which type of silicone or even if would work.

Anyway with plumbing experience who might be able to suggest some approaches? Also regarding a better suited pump than this one?

Thank you very much!!!

Anne Miller wrote:
So making it with Wallabies bones would make it effective or so it seems.

Fascinating 😃

Thank you

Hi,

Anyone have successful experience with a diy tree repellent against Australian marsupials (eg. Wallabies, possums, etc) who tend to browse on trees in special when other food sources are more scarce for them?

I was thinking about bone sauce but I haven’t found anyone describing the use over here to control those animals.

I’d love to hear some stories.

Cheers

Pearl Sutton wrote:For those of us who don't like video, I think this is a drawing of how to tie that knot

This is the one I’ve been using since a friend at work helped his daughter out in front of me when her shoes didn’t stop untying. Might try the other great suggestions here as well.

Thank you

C. Letellier wrote:I am going to suggest rather than planning to upgrade you plan on being able to break all of this into smaller circuits.  That way if one fencer goes down you still have something hot so not everything getting out at once.  Ideally a perimeter fence and inner fences so most stuff doesn't get out if a fencer goes down.  Low fences will be forever shorting out so they need to be separate from your main fence anyway.

Yes I need to think about that. Thank you for  the advice. 🙂

The perimeter wires were  going to be more elevated from the ground in my idea.

Hi everyone,

I was hoping to find someone with experience with electric fences and energisers here in the forum. You might be able to give me some advise.

I’m planning to fence an area of about 5 acres. The perimeter is about 600m (approx 1970 feet). Though I’m thinking about two live wires so 1200m total (3937 feet). For context the 5 acres are fenced but not with electric wires added to it yet.

I’d like to be able to tether internal fences to the perimeter. The future demand would be to energise 2 or 3 chicken electric nets (50m x 1.1m each or 167 feet x 42inch - a chicken net is longer in Australia than the longest ones in the USA I think, for some reason) and a small movable subdivision for a cow and calf (as couples of movable live wires) to be run in parcels.

As for my current situation, I have 1 chicken net plus a solar powered energiser in place (0.75 Joules capacity). The solar power energiser I have I don't think would cut for all of the future demand.

I need to buy another energiser soon anyway as I am going to add a second chicken net to our block. I was thinking to get a mains energiser now (we finally have mains power at the property) and get it with enough joules to cover the described demand in the future with ease.

Even though I am not going to install all of those elements above right now, getting the new mains energiser now makes more sense to me so I don't have to upgrade it again later.

Thank you for your help everyone.