Using Electric Fencing Polyrope

Electric Fencing Rope is becoming more and more popular for a number of reasons. Available in five, six and seven millimetre diameters, rope is visible enough to be suitable for horses yet small enough to be used for many other stock or pest animals.

For horses, rope is a good alternative to tape, as it does not catch the wind as tape does.  Also rope is much easier to handle.  It becomes tangled far less easily than tape and can be rolled up more readily.  This is a particular advantage if your fencing is to be moved frequently.  Bear in mind that not all plastic posts have conductor supports suitable for rope so care should be taken in selecting them.

Rope is also a stronger alternative to cord so can be used for cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, deer, foxes and badgers.

Rope is available with both stainless steel wires for standard uses and copper wires if a higher conductivity is required.  One useful tip to reduce the cost of a long, multi line fence is to install one higher conductivity copper wired rope and the other line(s) with a lower conductivity and then at regular intervals (50m) link the lines together.  This will maintain the best possible voltage along more of the fence length.

Rope can be easily joined and terminated using Steel Rope Joiners and these joiners can also be used for linking different lines of rope to each other and for making connection to your energiser.  For safety rope joiners can also be used as effective ‘slip-joints’ if not tightened too much.

Elastic Rope Gates compliment fences made using rope.  They have the advantage over most tape and spring gates of being able to be opened without dragging on the ground.
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