This is funny...

Angus Young

http://www.mbr.co.uk/videos/news/fat-bi ... _source=ET

rockmonkeysc

It's going around agricultural and equestrian websites. The farmer who owns the fence wants to find these morons because of the damage caused to his fence. I suggested increasing the voltage and wait for them to come back.

Angus Young

RockmonkeySC wrote:

It's going around agricultural and equestrian websites. The farmer who owns the fence wants to find these morons because of the damage caused to his fence. I suggested increasing the voltage and wait for them to come back.

Then the farmer is an arsehole (no surprise there, then). Other than a bit of stretch the fence looks intact at the end and they appeared to still be getting shocks, so there is next to no damage. And I'd hazard a guess that they didn't purposely crash into the fence. A clear case of "Ger oofff ma land!"

schmako

Surely the definition of all the gear no idea..

Been caught out by electric fences a few times over the years, but none as bad as that. Don't recall having that much struggle with any fences when i've been biking, find the easiest spot and lift over. But then again fat man + fat bike, maybe not so easy.

Still a funny video though!

The Rookie

When we had some fields behind my parents house we used electric fences to partition it during grazing, a game with my mates was playing the how long can you hold it for test...about 5 minutes was the answer (your forearm muscles start to hurt from the repeated actuation), these guys are pansies. Grab the grips and lift, it would be off in 15 seconds, we grabbed it with bare hands they would have the insulation (not 100% I accept) from the grips and gloves.

The Electric fences were no good for goats, they enjoyed the tickling sensation and used to rub up against it!

rockmonkeysc

Angus Young wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

It's going around agricultural and equestrian websites. The farmer who owns the fence wants to find these morons because of the damage caused to his fence. I suggested increasing the voltage and wait for them to come back.

Then the farmer is an arsehole (no surprise there, then). Other than a bit of stretch the fence looks intact at the end and they appeared to still be getting shocks, so there is next to no damage. And I'd hazard a guess that they didn't purposely crash into the fence. A clear case of "Ger oofff ma land!"

If the farmer has to waste time sorting out the fence these morons made a mess of then it's understandable that he's p1ssed off with them. Whether they did it on purpose or not is irrelavent, their incompetence has created work for him.

Angus Young

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Angus Young wrote:

RockmonkeySC wrote:

It's going around agricultural and equestrian websites. The farmer who owns the fence wants to find these morons because of the damage caused to his fence. I suggested increasing the voltage and wait for them to come back.

Then the farmer is an arsehole (no surprise there, then). Other than a bit of stretch the fence looks intact at the end and they appeared to still be getting shocks, so there is next to no damage. And I'd hazard a guess that they didn't purposely crash into the fence. A clear case of "Ger oofff ma land!"

If the farmer has to waste time sorting out the fence these morons made a mess of then it's understandable that he's p1ssed off with them. Whether they did it on purpose or not is irrelavent, their incompetence has created work for him.

Once again: "Other than a bit of stretch the fence looks intact at the end and they appeared to still be getting shocks, so there is next to no damage."

rockmonkeysc

Livestock field fences need to be kept in good condition. Once they're sagging it encourages cattle to push through it. The electric shock is only a minor deterrent to them, they will push through if they see a low or sagging fence. If it's horses in the field they'll jump any low spot.
Is it unreasonable for someone to expect their fence to not get damaged? This is exactly why farmers don't like people on their land, it's because some idiots can't show any respect for the land and fences.
There's a perfectly good stile in the fence so people don't damage the fence. Stiles are generally only used on footpaths, not bridleways so there's a good possibility they shouldn't have been cycling there anyway.