Have you ever touched an electric fence?

are you okay, Abbott?

haha

yes - it wasn't charged very strongly, though. it was meant to keep cows in particular grazing field. i felt some kind of charge but it was nothing painful at all. apparently if you take your shoes off, it's worse? not quite sure.

on purpose, btw. i was told that it wasn't harmful to do so.

(this particular fence)

Lived on a farm as a chil'n, so yes. All I remember is grabbing the fence and being unable to let go until my dad scooped me away. I was probably attched for at least a minute or two. It's a rush! Highly recommended.

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My brother and cousins used to have zing-culture "fun" by grabbing somebody's arm and then touching an electric fence -- pass-through shock.

I have touched many an electric fence but the most memorable time was when I got hit in the head with a softball and fell backward onto one.

I was lost in reverie abt my childhood and that's why I started this thread.

ha okay I thought maybe you had had a recent encounter! I have never touched one.

I touched one to see if it was on when I was 13, because I needed to cross it. I touched the back of my hand to it, quicly, and pulled back. Nothing. Again. Nothing. I stepped over the fence. It electrocuted my inner thigh. Turns out there's no constant stream of electricity... just a tick, tick, tick. I touched it off the ticks.

I have touched one. You'd think it'd feel like getting shocked from someone wearing socks on a shag carpet, but it's really this quiet pulsating sensation that damn near paralyzes you.

Of course, this happened at my baby-sitter's house.

My father has a strong one strung near ground level around his garden, I guess to keep out small critters and wandering butterbean thieves. Last time I was there, I saw the corpse of a bird that had landed on it, thinking it was a normal wire.

i tried to rig up a makeshift electrical fence once to defend my GI Joe base camp from invading older brothers. i managed to blow out the fusses and almost burn the house down.

Rock Hardy, that is sad. Carne asada, that is hilarious and you are delicious grilled w/lime and garlic.

When I was about 10, I grabbed a rubber foam sheath that was covering part of an electrical fence - just to see what would happen - and I still got shocked. I would have that thought the rubber would be a good insulator.

Mama Asada didn't find it so hilarious though

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wau

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Once found this box next to an electric fence with a dial on. My brother turned the dial all the way up and then I touched the fence. It felt like someone had hurled a rock straight at my arm, fortunately the shock jolted my arm away from the fence. Good times!

I leant on an electric fence at my cousins farm once. It wasnt massively painful but it was like being punched.

My bf's dad was on the New Inventors the other week, cause he's invented this tool that can detect if there's a live current in an electric fence (and how much it is in ohms or wtf ever the phrase is) without having to touch the wire at all. Picks it up by electromagnetic field instead. Pretty nifty! (he didn't win though boo).

NO electric fencage for me, but I have electrocuted myself through other acts of household negligence.

Can't say as I care for it.

Pleasant Plains, after I mentioned my little shock therapy session while installing a ceiling fan, did SS ask you not to DIY your own fan install?

I have these shock mats for our cats (which are bad cats, believe me, and deserve a little shocking). They only run off a 9 volt battery, but if you wake up in the middle of the night after drinking maybe too much and so are still kind of reeling and also so THIRSTY and you step right on the shock mat? POW! POW! POW! POW! on the soles of your bare feet.

Yes, Rock. We still have the same broken fan stuck in the ceiling. SS won't even let me leave the toaster plugged in.

...shock mats for the cats, whaaa?

yes

Like a month ago. My grandparents put one up for the llamas, nobody told me it was electrified. Luckily when I straddled it I touched it with my hand instead of my nuts.

Cuz, you know, usually when I hop fences I like to let my nuts rest there on top for a second.

My brother peed on one ;_;

Oh my god what happened. Did he get a fried or unusable urethra?

I touched one last week whilst fishing in a river, touched it with my rod. OUch!

I pee-d through one. My son said "that's an electric fence" and I said "no don't be silly - they'd be a sign up" and grabbed hold of it just as I caught sight of the sign. It was a surprisingly unpleasant, paralysing sensation all the way up my arm. Don't know what would have happened if I'd actually pee-d on it.

I was lost in reverie abt my childhood and that's why I started this thread.

-- Abbott, Monday, 19 November 2007 21:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^ posts very much in character candidate : )

Oh my god what happened. Did he get a fried or unusable urethra?

-- Abbott, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:28 AM (10 hours ago)

No, it was only twelve volts or something - it was a small horse paddock. Nasty shock though - for him, anyway, the rest of us were literally ROFLOAO :)

I've done this accidentally about half a dozen times on the farm. Like Trayce said, it's like being punched really, really hard, but from the inside. I'm always surprised (and relieved) that it doesn't hurt more. Wouldn't like to experience it if I had a heart condition, though.

I had a particularly odd Agriculture teacher in yr 7 who had the class link up intending to give the weediest kid a shock. Turned out the fence wasn't on at the time, he seemed disappointed. He had a wolf creek air about him.

touched it with my rod

hur hur hur hur etc

I can remember when they were first installed in the farmer's cow fields near where I lived when I were a nipper. We were warned KEEP AWAY by parents etc, but of course curiosity got the better of us. I was the FOOL who touched it first, of course, it being on a timer pulse, I got nothing the first couple of times I touched it, it was only when I held onto it that I got zapped kapow yaaargh. I didn't like it much.

My girlfriend acidentally touched one in Cali when she was a kid and was electrocuted but survived. She said that her body was spasming and she couldn't let go of it and her friend had to run and get an adult to pull her off the fence. She seems okay now but there's something about her that makes sensitive electronic equipment freak out when she gets too close to it. She can't use our kitchen scale that measure things to the .001 place, for example because it just goes nuts.

the ones for cows are no big deal but the horse ones yikes

yes! pulse-style, didn't hurt really.

yes, when i was four, in texas.
i remember telling mom it felt like nails spinning around real fast inside me.

She seems okay now but there's something about her that makes sensitive electronic equipment freak out when she gets too close to it.

AWESOME

my friend told me that if I shook the fence, the horses would come. zap

if your pee doesnt come out in one single stream, I dont think you would get electrecuted. Especially if the pee hits the bottom of the fence....?

my brother tested the dog's electric collar on my hand. that was one of those old school, no level setting bad-boys too. it hurt, can't imagine having it on your neck.

used to touch the horsess fence with blades of grass, just gave a little buzz.

if your pee doesnt come out in one single stream, I dont think you would get electrecuted. Especially if the pee hits the bottom of the fence....?

-- CaptainLorax, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i have been thinking about this before

we used to do this all the time as kids. It kind of feels like a drum in your blood. Not that dramatic though.

climbed thru a fence on Sat morning not noticing the electric wire. For a split second, before I realised I was just getting a shock, I thought I must have been having a heart attack.

It was way more painful than I remember as a kid.

i did it when i was 11 thinking it was turned off. i don't know why i would have thought that, but i touched it with my finger. it made me jump. it wasn't painful, just a pulse through your entire body.

^that's how I remembered it being too. Maybe the voltage or whatevs was higher coz it fukig hurt.

We've ended up with this novelty joeks "shock pen" in our house that someone bought, and fuckadoodle does it ever hurt! I just thought it would be like one of those joke buzzers you shake hands with ppl with, Krusty-style, so I picked it up and clicked it and it hurt so bad I threw it on the floor. Jesus.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time in the country as a kid so I've had my run ins with electric fences. The first time was peeing, I didn't even know electric fences were a thing. Second time I grabbed one just to see.

Wasn't that bad, more surprising than anything.

yah actually barbed wire fences have caused more injuries imo.

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Hey, Trayce. Next time you get the urge to play Deer Hunter with your mates, be sure to pick one of these up:

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Hahah what in the hell.

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Was exactly my thought too =)

Early alternating current (AC) fence chargers used a transformer and a mechanically-driven switch to generate the electrical pulses. The pulses were wide and the voltage unpredictable, with no-load peaks in excess of 10,000 volts and a rapid drop in voltage as the fence leakage increased.

I wonder how many volts/amps modern AC fences have.

had childhood encounters similar to others here. a few on purpose -- games with friends, who could hold on the longest, that sort of things -- and a few from brushing against them. barbed wire fences caused me more grief than electric fences, tbh.

i did this once when my cousins dared me to do it. i jumped like a foot & let go -- it came in pulses so when i first grabbed it i didnt feel anything. they later found a garden snake and laid it on the fance where it died. they were dicks kinda