Slug electric fence
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Ah, I misunderstood, have you tried it? I know they can go over razor blades!
I'm happy with my design, for it's simplicity, so as I said, I'm only looking for the best wire.
C
Hi,
The fence is working well, I've only seen one small slug inside, and he might have been borne there. I found that the wire seems to snap if the wood swells, and as
footprints said the wire needs some spring in it. I found in practice that instead of winding coils round a round object, what seems best is to pull the wire round, loosely, then make small 'W's for a short distance on each side, making sure there's no danger of wires touching.
I did find, that with my 'quick' carpentry the wood isn't straight, so in some places, I used narrow staples, to bring the wire closer to the wood.
I've not had to clean it or do any maintenance, like cleaning corpses, as they all seem to turn back.
Camerart.
The fence is working well, I've only seen one small slug inside, and he might have been borne there. I found that the wire seems to snap if the wood swells, and as
footprints said the wire needs some spring in it. I found in practice that instead of winding coils round a round object, what seems best is to pull the wire round, loosely, then make small 'W's for a short distance on each side, making sure there's no danger of wires touching.
I did find, that with my 'quick' carpentry the wood isn't straight, so in some places, I used narrow staples, to bring the wire closer to the wood.
I've not had to clean it or do any maintenance, like cleaning corpses, as they all seem to turn back.
Camerart.
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I've heard many people are happy with copper tracks, perhaps I set them up wrongly?
When I was trying out different ideas, I tried the none powered one. I made circles of different metals, which make voltage. Then I put slugs and snails inside the circles, to see which ones escaped. All of the none powered ones escaped.
Then As I said before the copper tarnished, so they got fried, once their slime had cleaned of the tracks they were crossing, leaving bodies on the tracks.
C.
Well, it's not a copper "track" exactly - just a single thick band of copper tape around the bed. The snails climb up to it and then recoil when they touch it.
I don't understand what you mean about the copper getting tarnished (that doesn't make any difference) or about the slime going across the barrier - the snails can't get across it!
Admittedly I haven't seen the effect of the tape on slugs - but I'm assuming it's the same...
I don't understand what you mean about the copper getting tarnished (that doesn't make any difference) or about the slime going across the barrier - the snails can't get across it!
Admittedly I haven't seen the effect of the tape on slugs - but I'm assuming it's the same...
I didn't use proprietary copper tape, but copper strip. Perhaps yours has different properties. Mine tarnishes, or use too before I changed to stainless wire.
C.
I didn't use proprietary copper tape, but copper strip. Perhaps yours has different properties. Mine tarnishes, or use to before I changed to stainless wire.
C.
I watched a gardening programme many years ago and apparently copper gives slugs s natural shock and they won't go near it!
My mates son has a raised bed and grows all sorts in there I told him about copper and he thought I was taking the Mickey,anyway he tried it and put copper tube all around the strawberries. He was amazed that the whole patch was slug free!!
Very low tech but it works apparently and no batteries in sight
My mates son has a raised bed and grows all sorts in there I told him about copper and he thought I was taking the Mickey,anyway he tried it and put copper tube all around the strawberries. He was amazed that the whole patch was slug free!!
Very low tech but it works apparently and no batteries in sight
Hi HP,
When I did a copper only test, before electrifying, they got in. Can you tell me what are the walls of his raised bed made of?
Either they don't like the taste of copper, or the copper makes a small electrical current, that they don't like. Of course the copper needs to be sourced cheaply. Can you let me know how he gets on after the copper has tarnished please?
C.
The raised bed is made from railway sleepers and copper tarnishing makes no difference whatsoever ,it was actually scrap copper that was used in the first place
It would be sacrilege to use shiny new tube!!!
It would be sacrilege to use shiny new tube!!!
Good suggestion. When used for animals on fields, the circuit is made through the body to ground. For my idea there needs to be two wires, as slugs don't have legs
They need to be close together so that small slugs touch both wires. I'll get some electric fence wire and see if it works close together. electric fences need to have pulsed high voltage, but for this there only needs to be a few volts, I use an old 12v battery, and a bulb. Thanks.C.
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