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| "I run a grounded wire parallel the hot wire."
That's the ticket for using a hot wire in dry soil conditions.
You could drive 100 feet of ground rod to the water table and not get a shock if you're standing on powder dry dirt. Dry dirt doesn't conduct electricity too well.
Doesn't happen often here, maybe from mid-july to mid-august when it's driest, but i can get 4k volts between fence and a ground rod, but less than 1k between fence and metal post. In that case, the ground rod isn't doing much good.
We strung our high-tensile fence so I can add a ground jumper to every-other wire. Cow sticks her head between any two wires, doesn't matter if she's insulated from the ground, she'll get bit.
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Fencer ground rods
