Bear Fence for Bees

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[reindeersbees]

I am far from an expert on bear fences but I do have some experience ( I helped build 70 fences this summer). I will put some rebar posts in the with insulators every 6-8 ft. It keeps the wire tight. I would also add a ground wire in the middle to increase the shock.

[butcher]

Great fence... will say IF seeing Bear on trail camera close by you can wrap aluminum foil on hot wire& place peanut butter on end

[Kevin-TinyTrailFarmNC]

Great fence! My lower line also helps keep skunks out from eating on bearding bees in summer.

[paulawaldrep]

Southern Engineering is still my goto too.😊👌

[stgermain]

You open that fence wide like that, your bees are all going to escape! :D

[josephrawls]

Nothing wrong with that fence. I give it an A+ .

[yasminnilima]

Good to see you up and running again! Have missed your videos! This one I can apply for other uses too. Keep the domestic plants and animals inside the fence and the wilde stuff outside the fence, grows on me. Elk, moose, roedeer, wild boar, I gladly see in the forrest (or in my fridge), not in my garden. Appleseason=moose everywhere. (I am creating an appleorchard). Bees have been treated, finnished wintering. Can't do much more. I guess the last warm days have passed. Now winter and snow is arround the corner.

[jimbozerothtee]

Put that charger on a t-post just inside your fence so you can access it, or like mine on a corner t-post already installed. They sell brackets for that charger that you have which is what I have.

[danielholtxxl]

"I'll probably add another ground rod next year. After the bear destroys 20 hives." LOL!

[jtlearn]

I learned from Bob Binnie that 3 strands for bear is plenty. After 2 years, it has proven true. You can walk right over them. Just bait it in the corners with bacon periodically.
Use iron posts for the corners and push in fiberglass for the centers. The cheapest solar chargers keep the bears out when you remember to turn it on!

[charlesoneill]

I want to move to Wisconsin. Too hot and humid in Baton Rouge. Looks like 79⁰ .

[Drewjober]

There’s been a bear in my town and they usually aren’t and I have 16 hives in a yard for 4 more weeks and don’t want to have to fence them

[aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

How important do you think the top wire is?

[NewEnglandgardening]

I have those. I purchased them 10 years ago to keep racoons of off my grapes. Then one day a saw a squirrel just go right under them. I had to dig a hole to get the 6ft ground rod into the rocky soil. They still work but they need new batteries. I can't imagine what the solid copper rods costs today. I think the constant current one's would be better but you don't have anything to plug into. If you pour water around the ground rod it will give you a better ground.

[thezfunk]

What part of the state do you have your bees?

[sidelinerbeekeeper]

I pollinate blueberry, and I put up 40 fences a year being migratory. That is one ugly fence, expensive, complicated, and several weak points that will fail, even the ground rod could take out a tire, but it works for now.

[adamsoutdoors]

Are you planning on leaving those bees up there, or are you going to fro haul them back to Tennessee?

[jasoncarroll-yg]

It will work better if you run a ground in between each hot wire that way they touch both at the same time that’s the only way I could keep them out of my bees

[aaronparis]

Fucker got me last week so the bear got it the next night but I’m getting a fences for next year