Building a Solar Fence Charger for the Pasture. It's Time to Restart Rotational Grazing our Steers.
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Today we are building a solar electric fence charger for our pasture, and it will be better than ones at the farm store.
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We live in southeastern Illinois on a 41 acre homestead. We just finished building our log cabin in 2018. Now we are focused on trying to grow our own food and raise livestock. Follow us on our journey we continue to develop our homestead and farm, while becoming more self sufficient.
Hi Evan, congratulations on 100k, well deserved. I've been watching you since you were living in a camper, starting your homestead. It's been a great journey.
Thanks Pete. Your shout really helped me get there quicker. I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from you. Got 2 gravity wagons we are turning into feed storage like you use. Should have them filled up soon.
Hi pete.. from uk.. ironically i came to your ch after watching evans channel...both great down too earth farmers👍👍👍👍👍👍...all the very best....
I am kind of partial to both of your alls channels.. always entertaining...
As a long time old farmer I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, I watch both of y'all's channels.
Both great channels.
Pete from. Just a few acres farm gave you a nice shot out on his latest video
“overbuilt” the Evan way😁
Thumbs up!
Early congrats on 100K! As I'm watching this, the counter is at 99.9. Evan and Rebekah - you do a fantastic job with the channel. I eagerly look forward to each and every video!
It now shows 100K 👍👍
100 thousand for the win! you earned it!
The new solar panel for the electric fence was a good idea and as always, you manage to find a way to make it work, amazing job.
Good to see you physically tested the fence 😂Thanks for the video
Congrats on 100k subscribers, Evan and Rebecca! I've been watching since you first started renovating the bank barn, tearing out the old hog farm stuff, shoring up the posts, building new stalls, etc. You've come a long way!
Good job Evan, got the rain too and the electric fence all set up so you're set to go now. Looks great and the place looks great too. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
100,000 subscribers! Congratulations! When I started watching you weren’t yet comfortable looking into the camera while you talked, but you settled into it in a hurry! I’ve enjoyed all of your videos right from the start. All my best to you and Rebecca!
Yeah Rebecca didn't want to be on camera either. I remember them living in the camper and cleaning up the place, tearing down the old house and old barn too. They were just starting out. They've come along way.
You do very nice work Evan! I really love your slice of Paradise. Thank you for sharing your journey with us.
Almost 100,000 subs......Love your channel keep up the good work
Many congratulations on the milestone !!
For some reason, watching your videos brings me a great deal of enjoyment, but also a calmness and escape from all the doctor crap I am, and have been going through for the past 4 or 5 years.
Thank you both very much.
Sincerely,
Rod
100,000 and growing, just goes to show people like a clean show ,with clean language, and you both are knowledgeable, creative, and very resourceful.
Hi Evan, that was pretty slick.🧡🧡🧡🧡
Farmonng is a learning curve!!
Congratulations on hitting 100,000. Happy for your success. Love visiting.
Good video love it from steve c from state Oregon
Super idea to get the solar fence charger set up. Very interesting to see how it is put together. Isn't amazing how a little bit of electricity works to keep your animals in. Awful nice too that you can put in your poles/pipes so easily, we have lots of rocks. Am really enjoying your channel.
Glad you get plenty of sun there. In Mid-Michigan we often get long periods of cloudy weather, especially once Autumn comes around and into winter, like right now. I have started to grade our cloudy weather, cloudy #1, #2 and so forth. Oh well.
We had lots of sun and very little rain this summer, but things are headed back to normal now and the clouds have set in.
My dad had a electric fencer that was called a "weed chopper" when I was younger that not only kept the animals in, but was supposed to burn the weeds off. It worked fairly well.
Congrats Evan and Rebekah on 100K subscribers! Thank you for all your hard work in producing entertaining and informative videos for us. Best wishes for your continued success on your CZcams channel and in all your personal endeavors.
JudithB Interesting build!!!! Might build another one to go on the other pasture so you can rotate graze it too. Guess you will mow that pasture to knock down the weedy stuff. We had to brush hog our pastures to keep them clean of persimmon sprouts.
Great job on the solar fence charger, we use electric fencing several years ago and we had dc chargers, they were a real pain in the neck. I always wanted a solar charger in those days, not so much nowadays. Certainly enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing, have a great week.
Thanks for the video! In the middle of the night may you never hear the words, “The cows are out.” Cheerio
Great work on how far you guys have come on your property. Looks really good 👍.
Congrats
Always enjoy watching, 100,000 great job
Glad you are getting rain. Wish you could send us some. North Central Oklahoma
This video is informative , enjoy your video , Thanks for sharing
Congratulations on 100k . Really enjoy watching and learning from your videos.
Thanks! I saved your video so I can build this. I also subscribed. Straight to the point… Very useful
Nice fence charger
Congratulations on the 100K subscribers. That is awesome. Enjoy watching your videos. Have a great rest of your day.
Congratulations on the 100000 subscribers, on another note, never leave a battery on cement. The old boys always told me that it's a sure way to kill them.
Or put some wood between the concrete and battery
Its got plastic from the battery box. Its fine.
If you need to move the solar panel up I'm you know they make couplings for your post to add a piece.
Good idea
100k Country View Acres well done 👍
Evan, you know there's only one true way to test an electric fence.... You know you had to. 😁
Hello from the Netherlands .
you have to put a piece of scrap wood between your concrete block and your battery.
otherwise the cold from the concrete block will draw power from your battery.
this also happens without frost temperatures.
You should never put a battery on a concrete floor.
thanks for the video . Sincerely, Hollandduck
That's actually not true. If a battery has an intact hard plastic case it will not discharge into a concrete or stone floor. Not sure how that myth got started but it has been disproven over and over.
Good video
Hello. Pete sent me. Pleasure to meet you. Thx for the video.
Better put a board on top of the block than the battery because in the winter it does cause damage to a battery leaving it concrete during the winter!
Pete over at Just a few acres gave you a shout out on his channel the other day. Told people to go and check out your channel.
Evan I think you building all of your projects bigger and or beefier is a good thing. I sometimes find myself wishing I would have made some of my projects bigger. I don't think you will ever regret it. Thanks for another great video keep up the great work.
I would recommend building a box to place the charge controller and fence charger in. Regardless of what the manufacturer says, they will fail sooner rather than later with full exposure to UV rays.
Solid advice.
Congratulations on 100,000 subs!!! Love your channel!!
Great set up for the electric fence! Always love watching what ever your doing!
Just love your videos
Rotation will help the grass and the steers!
Congratulations on 100,000!
I thought surely you’d touch the fence (on camera) to prove to us that it’s actually working. 😝
I touched it camera accidentally. But it wasn't rated PG.
Pete name dropped you. Along with FTR
Good for Pete. I have enjoyed both of his recommendations.
You amaze me with everything you make as you need it. You have lots of knowledge and can make pretty much everything. Well done Even.
It's nice to have the tools you need, and have a building to fabricate what you need in, but without the skills it doesn't mean much, and believe you definitely have the skills to fabricate pretty much anything you want/need Evan! I enjoy watching your thought process as you fabricate something, since I do the same thing. I don't think the steers will come anywhere near the solar panel post, once they touch the fence by it and get shocked.
We use a plastic battery box (has a lid you can make a strap for to keep it closed)and use an Anderson powerpole for the electrical connection. Its waterproof and sits on the ground just outside the garden fence. Its been working just fine for 15+ years. The strap is nylon webbing and a plastic clip. If Rebecca can sew, she can put it together for you.
Most battery boxes come with a strap. Its usually inside when you buy the box. Evan will want to tie it down so lid doesnt blow off.
Congratulations on the 100k I just helped you today.
Hello and yes congratulations! we have also been watching you for a long time and you have inspired us as well to start our own ranch. We have a herd of Alpine goats and we're having a terrible time keeping them in a barbed wire so we just got a solar fence getting ready to install it now. We are trying to wean the babies from the mommas but they just go through the fence. You helped us decide if we should go with solar or electric, we chose solar. Thanks for the inspiration and all the good that you guys do teaching people how to be self sufficient!
Congrats on 100,00!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 100K SUBS
Congraduation reaching 100k
Congratulations on 100,000 and yes the rain and cooler temps are welcome
Congrats on 100K!
Evan great job,great video keep up the great work
I noticed one thing Evan. Your work bench is a place to keep washers, just like me. I never have washers with me in my pickup.
Thanks for all the videos!
Congrats on 100k! Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
HarborFreight freight has/had a set of drill stops. Cheerio.
100k!!!!!!!! Great job! I can't even imagine the journey! Very inspiring to us smaller channels! You and Pete should do a collaboration! Both Great Channels and Great Families!!!!
Ever think about a few Dexter's for your feeder beef?
Great video
Good Building a Solar fence charger
Evan I really love your channel because you’re always making very cool things and you explain it in detail! So many people don’t have good camera skill so that even when they’re making things you can’t watch it thoroughly or see Exactly what you’re doing well and YOU DO❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ that helps me to learn and I’m sure others as well. My son is a welder and I watched him weld and build many things in fact he’s an artistic welder but for many years he’s been a high-rise welder and an underwater welder and I never got to seeing you vent plus I’ve been helping raise his boys since they were infants as a mother left the home so I’ve had that responsibility plus my business job in it junior high daughter when we moved to Iowa… By then my boys are both out of school and my son that is the welder was in college and my other son was married and I had moved my business to Iowa because my mother had cancer, that I did not have an opportunity to learn a lot of the things that you show even though I was raised on a farm. My father did not allow girls your farm equipment, machinery of any kind or livestock other than to feed and water because he wanted to protect us from any harm. He treated us his ladies and so there was a lot that I never got to see beyond sanding grinding and then of course we build our own house… so I learned about mixing concrete and play cinder blocks as this was in the 60s and 70s and in my bedroom in the business for concrete but before that he was building whole houses and I learned about construction of houses put it very different than what you do and I love it. I’ve been to college three times and I really love learning hi I really do and on your videos I learn so much about everything in all aspects of farming but all aspects of building as well and electronics and welding and anything you make and that excites me. I think you for that. Your solar panel Hooked to a battery today was very amazing as well as making your own brackets and grounding the battery just a whole aspect was exciting for me to get a learn and I thank you for that!!! Maybe do some of the man this is common sense but to me it was fascinating as he has all of your videos!!!!!!
Do you have a beautiful place and I can tail trading it in a working hard to prove it every day😊❣️❣️❣️❣️♥️
Thank you so much and I look forward to the next video😊❣️❣️
Congrats on 100,000!!! Your channel is always informative and fun to watch.
Congrats on 100k Rebecca and Evan, love your channel, thanks
The joule is a derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is equal to the amount of work done when a force of 1 newton displaces a mass through a distance of 1 meter in the direction of the force applied 🤓🤓
Thank you Edit: Just saw you passed the 100K subscribers. Congratulations.
@evan I run a 150 joule shocker for my sheep fence. Keeps dogs and bobcats away in my area. Only thing I see in your setup is I'd install a small post and strap your battery to it.
Hi Evan, congratulations on 100k. Your electric fence charger battery box would be easy to mount on the wooden fence post, keeping the grass from growing into and around the box. You need to build another electric fence charger box for the upper pastures, that would free up your portable fence charger to be used on other fence areas.
Congratulations on 100,000! Way to go. We have been watching now for about a month all because my husband was looking for information on round balers and found your past episodes. Blessings from Ontario 🇨🇦
Congratulations on 100k
You may want to tie wrap the cables, the stock will love locking it and eventually pulling it off.
Good job on the solar fence .
An improvement here and there sure makes a difference. 🙌🙌🙌😊
as much as they like that sweet feed that shows ya they like good green grass Even Better ! Ours Do To.. They Like Corn Really Good To Shelled And On The Cob They Love It..Its Like Candy To Them!!
Ay yai yai... Gloves while operating a drill press... there was a guy at one of the local machine shops wearing gloves and lefty got wrapped up while he was boring holes... Good old Stubby... He's a hell of a guy... not as bad as the guy that got wrapped up in the lathe from his coveralls cuff that got caught... he didn't make it. HEY! 100K Subs! Congrats!
Kevin do you ever stop thinking about projects I love to watch your projects they're so interesting that's why your farm is so successful between you and your wife and you never stop thinking about improvements that's why I love to watch your videos you're so ambitious
Evan - maybe add a U shaped aluminum brkt halfway out on the two horizontal aluminum straps to stiffen it up a bit. Ref 9:02 minute mark.
Parmak solar 12 volt charger is 3 joules around $300. Congratulations on 100k subscribers
I enjoy your channel, like your videos and really appreciate your ability and attention to details. Your greatest asset is your honesty and Rebecca. ... she is a gift from the Lord. Blessings brother. ☝🙏🙌💪🎯
Great job nice love your videos you two sure work hard
Hi Evin,i worked for a farmer in Vermont that use to use 6Volt battery fencer,until he bought solar pannel fencer`s
So nice to watch your projects- organized and tidy
I truly admire your concept of going bigger than what you need so just in case if you need to go is already set up
Nice Evan, So nice seeing you enjoying your pole barn on a rainy day. Enjoy.
Congrats on you soon getting a You Tube plaque for 100,000 subs
A really good video. Thanks for sharing it.
Congratulations you two, well deserved !!
Great job Evan. Stay safe.
Great informative video Evan. I appreciate your efforts to teach us and share all you know and do with us 👍❣️
Evan, Your battery box should have come with a strap to hold the lid down. Usually its inside the box. You will want to strap the lid down or it will blow off in the wind.
Very cool set up!
Great great job I love watching your videos
Great work on the farm for ya this video. Love your channel don't miss an episode