wow whadahell was that?

discusdad

go ahead and pee on the fence.  it will be fun they said....lieing bastages 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8fwtkC5UJU

mogley98

When we were young my brother stood on the field side of the fence and I stood in the short grass his side was wet with dew and I guess the long grass helped ground him better? Anyway I could hold the fence and felt a shock but from his side it was knocking him off. LOL What ever the reason I sure thought it was funny as hell.

susie

Oh the joys of electric fence. Putting in a garden one year, my wimpy sister threw a fit and went running to the house. She didn't like work or getting dirty.

Broadsided the electric fence with her forehead (lead from house to field). She looked like she had hit an invisible wall. Feet flew out from under her, as they kept going but her head didn't. Felt bad afterward for her but it was as if Karma smacked her a good one.

Dad was always cutting green twigs and having us check the line. Owweee. He would bare hand it, no issue.

mac10

got caught up in a electric barb wire as a kid i was honkin like a goose every 2 tenths of a sec

tangara

As kids we would lay a stalk of broam grass on the wire, it dampened the charge and you could feel little pulses shooting up your arm.  I was by myself doing that one day and looked over and saw a big patch of asparagus.  I picked the biggest stalk that was about two feet long and a inch in diameter.  Layed that sucker on the wire and BAM!  next thing I knew i was looking up at the blue sky, got up and shook myself off.  My arm and shoulder were numb.  Learned a valuable science lesson that day.

steve45

Had an electric wire fence to keep my dogs in and my sister in law was railing about how bad I was. Wearing tennis shoes I walked out and grabbed the wire and said to her "see its nothing to worry about here come on out and grab my hand". She was barefoot and it lit her right up.

pulsarnc

Grew up farming . Raised thousands of hogs on the ground and ran untold miles of electric fences . Even in our commercial chicken house the feeders had electric fences mounted on them to prevent the chicken from roosting on the feeder . Been lit up more times than I can count . And yes , peeing on one will get your attention.

Wild Turkey

When I was teaching middle school science I used hot fences for the voltage/amperage example.
Amazed at the number of times a boy comment, "I peed on a hot fence once. . ."  Sometimes on a bet, sometimes by accident, but always good for a laugh.

Dad talked the power company into installing a drop on a post near his fields (since bad folks had stolen all the wires on the place) and he'd pay the minimum each month and they could read it once a year and he'd pay for any overage (never did happen) but one time he was checking the fence when his cowboy partner was out of town and found the fuse was blown, and that there wre a bunch of blown fuses on the ground.  He got to checking and found they'd hooked the 110v outlet up with 220 volts.  Bet some calves didn't try the wire a second time!

Then one night (before the wires got stolen) he'd installed the new "weed clipper" 110v powered fence charger in the old shop and ran the wire from the peak of the shop roof to a tall pole in the field so he could drive under it.  I'd been plowing all day on that field and it was after 9pm when he came to pick me up.  He parked his pickup under that overhead wire where the CB antenna would touch it and he could hear it snap as it charged the body of the truck.

So when I walked up and grabbed the door handle I got bit.  Jumped back about six feet as he laughed, then told me to "get in, supper's waiting."  I waved him forward and made sure it was well clear of wire before getting in truck.

Dad explained, "I just wanted to make sure you weren't too tired.
If you said you were tired after a 12-14 hour day plowing he'd look at you like you were addled and say, "But the tractor did all the work."