Range Ward and its Power Grazer fencing products center around the use and management of grazing animals in regenerative agriculture. Their approach and tools help to regenerate above and below ground biodiversity, improve water cycles, improve carbon cycles, and help improve the vitality and resilience of the ecosystem and the people on the land.
Why Managed Grazing?
Range Ward fencing products center around the use and management of grazing animals in regenerative agriculture. Our approach and tools help regenerate above and below-ground biodiversity, improve water cycles and carbon cycles and help improve the vitality and resilience of the ecosystem and the people on the land.
Our portable electric fencing tools focus on effectively and easily controlling time, which is one of the keys to regenerative agriculture. Controlling the time animals can graze and controlling the amount of time a plant has to recover from grazing provides a very powerful and effective management practice.
Range Ward FAQ
80% of all power fence problems can be traced to inadequate grounding. Your grounding system must be perfect for your fence to perform at its best. After all, it’s half the system.
Recommended Grounding In General, you will need one 6-foot galvanized ground rod for every three joules of energizer.
Power Grazer and Razer Grazer Trailers come equipped with a 24” hammer in/hammer out portable ground rod. Since most portable fences are less than 2 miles, this is normally adequate. If you are in dry or rocky soil conditions, additional ground rods are required.
Here’s how you can check.
Disconnect power from your fence energizer.
Place the fence under heavy load by “shorting” the fence as follows:
At a location on the fence at least 100 yards from the energizerlean 3 or 4 steel stakes or unpainted T-posts against the “hot” wire of the fence. (Alternatively, some people have found a successful method is to push several pieces of fence wire into the earth and wrap the opposite ends around the hot wire)
Plug the fence energizer in and check the fence line voltage with a digital voltmeter. You want to see that the voltage has dropped below 2,000V due to shorting the fence. On some high-powered fence energizers, you may not be able to short the fence below 2,000V. However, you can still test them at a higher voltage.
Continue to short the fence by leaning steel posts or by making wire connections to ground at 100 yards distance or more from energizer until the fence line voltage drops below 2,000V.
You are now ready to test the energizer ground system. Connect one lead of the digital voltmeter to a 12-inch metal stake driven into the ground 3 feet away from the last fence energizer ground rod. Connect the second lead to the ground rod furthest from the energizer. The voltage reading should ideally be zero or no more than 200V.
If the digital voltmeter reading is under 200V, your ground system is adequate, and you will get near maximum performance from your electric fence energizer.
If the reading is above 200V, then your ground system needs improvement
The best way is to bury heavy-duty insulated cable in a trench about 10 inches deep. Make sure it’s rated to 20,000 volts minimum, or it may leak current with today’s high-power energizers. Do not staple it to the post. Remember to carry the ground wire across the gateway also, using the same type of cable. It can be buried in the same trench as the hot cable.
Bungy electric gates are easy to erect, easy to use, and provide that extra “give” when animals crowd the corner or gate.
Bungy electric gates should not be used to provide power for additional fence on the other side of the gate. Always use heavy-duty insulated cable either overhead or underground to power additional fence.