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Electric Fence: Garden Protection Repellant: Smoke Bomb: Woodchuck Traps: |
About Our Electric Fence VEGETABLE GARDENERS: Are you tired or seeing your garden attacked yearly by woodchucks, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, or other varmints? You can end this problem permanently with an electric fence product, Mr. McGregor’s Fence®, that is child-safe, pet-safe, 100% effective, convenient, and trouble-free. It is also affordable, costing no more than several live traps or a few gallons of repellant. One big advantage of this system is its permanence. Other control measures (traps, guns, smoke bombs, etc.) are only used after a garden or other target area has taken damage, and more damage may be done before the offending creatures are removed. In contrast, Mr. McGregor’s Fence® is always there. It happily withstands the winter, and after a few leaves are raked away it is ready for the Spring–long before the garden has been planted, at a time when most of your friendly neighborhood veggie-munchers are still asleep. Other advantages are convenience and safety. Easily installed, the system consists of a barrier fence placed behind two very low charged wires (the barrier fence is not electrified). When an animal encounters the barrier fence and tries to climb or burrow, it comes into good contact with the charged wires, gets zapped, and goes home. The wires are low enough (4 inches and 8 inches off the ground) so that you the gardener are unlikely to get zapped unless you decide to weed around the fence without first unplugging the charger. If you do get zapped you won’t want to touch the wire again, but you won’t be hurt–because the system’s K-9 charger was designed for small pets, and so it puts out a zap that is convincing but too weak to even harm a sparrow. The system comes as a kit with clear installation instructions. However, it is also possible to purchase all of the necessary components separately. This is the right way to go if you already have a fence and so have no need of the barrier fence and 27" support posts included in the kits. More detailed information about this system is available at www.mcgregorfence.com. In addition, information about adapting the system to repel deer is available at our electric deer fence catalog site, www.electric-deer-fence.com.
The basic 100-foot kit comes in either an AC-powered or battery-powered version. The AC-powered version includes an AC-powered electric fence charger, an insulated cable to connect the charger to the fence, electric fence wire, fiberglass posts and clip-on insulators to hold the wire, mulch to keep weeds from growing up, a green poly-coated welded steel wire barrier fence, and posts to support the fence. The highly effective battery version (powered by two flashlight D batteries that last over two months) includes the battery-powered charger, a post to support the charger, a two-foot ground rod, and everything in the AC-powered kit except the charger and insulated connecting cable. The whole system has been designed for reliability and permanence—with an eye to having it last as many years as your garden. We also offer 50-foot extender kits that have all items but the charger and insulated cable or ground rod—everything you need to extend the system another 50, 100, 150, or 200 feet. (Since either charger can power up to a half-mile of system, you can extend the fence almost indefinitely.) Accessories for Mr. McGregor’s Fence Mr. McGregor’s Fence® can be made impregnable to small critters (squirrels, young rabbits, chipmunks, etc.) by reducing the mesh size in a way that creates a temporary obstacle to these animals. This can be accomplished by adding our squirrel barrier to the bottom of the main barrier fence, a job that takes roughly 20 minutes. If your garden is separated from your nearest AC outlet by over 50 feet, you will need more insulated cable than comes with the AC-powered kit. This specialized cable is needed because the electric fence charger produces a charge with very little power but lots of volts–too many volts for an ordinary house current extension cord to contain.
Other McGregor Fence Components The table below offers all the components in Mr. McGregor’s Fence® except for the insulated cable available above. Descriptions of these components can be viewed at the Deer-Shock Depot, www.electric-deer-fence.com (see the Depot’s Small Animal Control page). |
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