[TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

To revert to a suggestion someone else made, why not put some of those 
10-foot yellow tubes on your top-loading wires?  Presumably, if they can 
see the wires, deer will choose not to run into them.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 1/7/2013 10:05 AM, Rich wrote:
> Deer can and do jump 12 foot high fences.  Your highway department 
> likely has fence designs for excluding deer for highway safety 
> reasons.  Some deer fences are 15 feet tall after 12 footers failed to 
> keep deer out.
>
> Deer do not have good depth perception.  An angled fence or an opaque 
> fence may make them too nervous to jump.  Five to six feet angled and 
> opaque may do it.  All depends on how well your local deer have been 
> trained to jump fences comfortably.
>
> Google will give much information.  Some of it good...
>
> Rich
> NU6T
>
> On 1/7/2013 6:45 AM, Wayne Kline wrote:
>> Hi Keith   Though that everything was BIGGER in Texas... Nest to me 
>> is a 1/4 horse farm... there three grazing pastures, they have 
>> pulsing electric fence on all three the closest one is solar powered. 
>> and the  insulated top wire is @ 66"  ... the Deer  in my area don't 
>> even need a running start to clear them.  At dawn and dusk timeswe 
>> see it regularly, not so much during hunting season.    It's funny to 
>> watch the Doe's teach the fawns how to jump over the fence. and have 
>> witnessed them get Zapped. boy do that hop around then !  but the 
>> experienced dose not seem to curb there appetite for the Horse feed 
>> !   Wayne W3EA  > From: kdutson at sbcglobal.net
>>> To: K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net; towertalk at contesting.com
>>> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:56:39 -0600
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer
>>>
>>> Run an electric wire on top of the fence.  Works well on 5 foot 
>>> fence.  Deer
>>> may enter once, then never again after first shock.  Ask me how I know.
>>>
>>> 73, Keith NM5G
>>> Deep Meadow Equine Svcs, Inc.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of K8RI
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 2:05 PM
>>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bye Bye Deer
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2013 1:26 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>>>> To the best of my knowledge, nothing really works except fencing.  A
>>>> neighbor across the road has an open permit that lets him shoot as
>>>> many deer in his resident herd as he needs to keep them from
>>>> destroying his corn crop.  for years, he had a propane cannon rigged
>>>> to fire periodically, but after a few weeks the deer just 
>>>> discounted this.
>>>>
>>>> Local vineyard.s have gone with 8-foot-high fences to protect their
>>>> grapes - may be the only way
>>> Depends on the deer. Many Mi white tail can go right over an 8' 
>>> fence and a
>>> good 8' fence is expensive!
>>>
>>> 73  Roger (K8RI)
>>>
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