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What is a Livestock Spring Gate? #farming #farmer #cow

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Video by Stoney Ridge Farmer

Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video demonstrates the installation and energizing of a temporary electric fence spring gate, often used in agricultural settings to manage livestock. The process involves attaching a coiled spring gate with insulated handles to fence posts, connecting a DC electric fence energizer to a battery, and then connecting the energizer's hot and ground wires to the fence system to electrify the gate and surrounding fence lines.

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Looks like a slinky, right? This is a spring gate. Just spring, right? Spring gate. It's like a slinky. And that'll connect up right here. >> Spring gate. >> Just like that right there. Looks like a slinky, right? And it connects right here. My electric fence power source will be sitting right here and hanging off of this post and just clipped on to that. Okay. Now, I do have a area that the cows could escape. So, if they jumped over that, they could get into this pasture, and I most certainly do not want that. So, I got to find my gate handle. It's never easy, is it, guys? Come on. Got a bail of hay in there. It's never easy. Why? That wire is energized. This wire is not. I hang it right here. This wire is not I'll hang it right here. But the cows will still respect it and ain't going to go under it. Battery there, grandpa. The battery ain't going to go dead sitting on the ground. Promise you it's been sitting on the ground for weeks. It won't go dead. It's a wives tail. That connects up to my battery. Pow. That's it. Just that simple. DC charger. battery positive, negative, hot wire to there, ground right there. Okay, if I want to test it, see if it's hot. Hear that pop? That means it's hot. We'll just clip it right on there. And that's going to energize this entire section that way and that way. Let's go get these cows.

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