OT: does anyone know where

you can get that plastic barrier fencing that you see in orange on motorway
sites and blue on the railways at a reasonable price?

We need to make some of the electric fences more visible for the pones
(www.lert.org.uk) and the best I can find is £50 for 50m, which as a charity
is out of our league.

Or that wooden stuff that councils put around fairs, best price I have found
for chestnut pallisade is £30 for 5 yds (yes five)

Cheers

Si
Treasurer
Littl'Uns Equine Rescue Trust
Registered Charity 1111359
www.lert.org.uk

Si Kellow wrote:
> you can get that plastic barrier fencing that you see in orange on
> motorway sites and blue on the railways at a reasonable price?
>
> We need to make some of the electric fences more visible for the pones
> (www.lert.org.uk) and the best I can find is £50 for 50m, which as a
> charity is out of our league.
>
> Or that wooden stuff that councils put around fairs, best price I
> have found for chestnut pallisade is £30 for 5 yds (yes five)
>
> Cheers
>
> Si
> Treasurer
> Littl'Uns Equine Rescue Trust
> Registered Charity 1111359
> www.lert.org.uk

Silly question, but why not coloured electric tape??

--
Graham

101 GS
101 Radio Body

"Si Kellow" wrote ...
> you can get that plastic barrier fencing that you see in orange on
> motorway sites and blue on the railways at a reasonable price?
>
> We need to make some of the electric fences more visible for the pones
> (www.lert.org.uk) and the best I can find is £50 for 50m, which as a
> charity is out of our league.
>
> Or that wooden stuff that councils put around fairs, best price I have
> found for chestnut pallisade is £30 for 5 yds (yes five)
>
Interesting information on the AVS Fencing site re electric fences
specifically for horses and they are also consistently the cheapest place we
have found for anything fencing and excellent service too. Certainly cheaper
for chestnut palisade than what you have been quoted.
http://www.avsfencing.co.uk/

Our nearest is at Milford (SO of Guildford) but they deliver to Staines free
so how far is Lewes to you?
--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

"Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Si Kellow" wrote ...
>> you can get that plastic barrier fencing that you see in orange on
>> motorway sites and blue on the railways at a reasonable price?
>>
>> We need to make some of the electric fences more visible for the pones
>> (www.lert.org.uk) and the best I can find is £50 for 50m, which as a
>> charity is out of our league.
>>
>> Or that wooden stuff that councils put around fairs, best price I have
>> found for chestnut pallisade is £30 for 5 yds (yes five)
>>
> Interesting information on the AVS Fencing site re electric fences
> specifically for horses and they are also consistently the cheapest place
> we have found for anything fencing and excellent service too. Certainly
> cheaper for chestnut palisade than what you have been quoted.
> http://www.avsfencing.co.uk/
>
> Our nearest is at Milford (SO of Guildford) but they deliver to Staines
> free so how far is Lewes to you?

to answer you both - the electric isnt fully supported, and to do so would
mean poles every 6 ins, so to reinforce with this stuff is what we need to
do

We've got miles of electric fencing, but two of the recent rescues lived in
a back garden for 15 years, and dont know what its about!

Thanks for the ideas though

Si

On or around Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:06:44 +0100, "Si Kellow"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>to answer you both - the electric isnt fully supported, and to do so would
>mean poles every 6 ins, so to reinforce with this stuff is what we need to
>do

Ours is orange plastic netting, what's yours?
>
>We've got miles of electric fencing, but two of the recent rescues lived in
>a back garden for 15 years, and dont know what its about!
>
>Thanks for the ideas though

I trust you've "introduced" them nose-first to the fence, when it's live?
Most animals[1] seem to get the idea pretty quickly, once they've had a jolt
or two.

[1] Pigs, on the other hand, generally manage to learn how to detect if it's
live or not, and flatten it if it isn't. You need either a silent fence
unit or have it where the pigs can't hear it.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio" (it is when I struggle to be
brief that I become obscure) Horace (65 - 8 BC) Ars Poetica, 25

"Austin Shackles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On or around Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:06:44 +0100, "Si Kellow"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>to answer you both - the electric isnt fully supported, and to do so would
>>mean poles every 6 ins, so to reinforce with this stuff is what we need to
>>do
>
> Ours is orange plastic netting, what's yours?
>>
>>We've got miles of electric fencing, but two of the recent rescues lived
>>in
>>a back garden for 15 years, and dont know what its about!
>>
>>Thanks for the ideas though
>
> I trust you've "introduced" them nose-first to the fence, when it's live?
> Most animals[1] seem to get the idea pretty quickly, once they've had a
> jolt
> or two.
>

Hi Austin,

As a rescue centre concerned with the welfare of ponies, we can't really use
the electric fence netting (also known as sheep netting) because if they get
it caught round their legs the resulting multiple shocks can overly stress
the animal. we have the same problem where stock fencing is concerned,
already having lost one pony with a broken leg to it.

The fencing like I am talking about has visual barrier value, to augment the
electric. The main two ponies that we are doing this for were in a back
garden for 15 years (I had to get them down 7ft and 9 steps! to get them
out) and even though they have been introduced to leccy fencing, it still
doesn't register with them. Now in time that would be ok, but as we have to
keep them isolated until given the all clear to introduce them to the herd,
then its a bit of a problem.

Surprising thing after dealing with horses for over 25 years is you keep
finding the exceptions to the rule.

as ever, thanks for the ideas

Si