Bear VS Electric Fence 

I have used electric fence to protect crops from many animals. You were very wise to get a big charger. Look into simple springs and wire tensioners. They make working with the wire much easier. Also smear a little peanut butter on the wire to train the bear. A zap to the tongue will be very effective. Best wishes.

Thankfully I never had to deal with bears. I live in Texas. I do deal with some not too bright cows in a electric fence. I found that adding a ground wire between the hot wires will keep even the dumb cows in and everything else out. I added more ground rods due to the dryness here. Great job on making use of what you have. Stay safe.

Great video and great workmanship there my friend. Here in northern Canada we have beer problems to including grizzly bears and we put down what we call a welcome mat which is plywood with nails or screws poking up through it so it tears them from even getting close to the fence which is also electrified. When the bear gets aggressive he just tears off the fence but if he can’t get to the fence because of the welcome mat then you’re doing pretty good. We also lay them down outside of the cabins when you close them up for the winter so when the bears come in to hibernate they don’t destroy your cabin or even in the spring they can’t get in

What a beautiful job!, that, “simple little pen”, required n amazing amount of work. From cleaning and brushing the area, to stripping and trimming the timber. Really, before you can even get started on the pen. Congratulations on a job well done.

Great idea for everyone living off grid to protect their animals . Great video thank you for sharing ☺️

Your thought process over the construction of your pig pen is awesome and implemented it to prefction

"Little pig, little pig, let me in!" "Come at us, bro!"

You could build a really solid shelter inside the pen with a small pig sized opening so the pigs can hide if the worst should happen

A friend of mine had a number of bear breakins on his chicken coop. He installed an electric fence and wraps the wire with some bacon strips. He said the fence is a more effective deterrent if the first jolt they get is through the mouth instead of through their fur.

excellent video, thank you!

Bear 🐻 vs electric fence 11:43

One tip I would give you is attach your ground wire to the fence. This way in dry conditions you know if something hits the fence and hot wire it will be full power.

I liked the "Ha-Ha" look the pigs gave the bears a couple of times!

Very smart,beautiful place,nothing like peace and quiet.

Good Job! Nice set up.

" And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the electric fence down " --- the Bear

A reverse Jurassic pork! 😁 nice job!

That electric fence kept the bear away from bacon? Sold.

Very nice. Good work. Congrats

New farm is in black bear country. Great video. Will be trying these out when I get home.

The beauties of Red Neck engineering!

I should get this for my bike to protect it from thieves.

@2:17 "dig your holes - burie your poles" 😂😂

Nice set up!!

Human ingenuity @ its best. Love it

You did a great job 👍

I salute you señor! Awesome work, thanks for sharing

Nice job. I have a similar set-up for my honey bees here in up-State NY. Never ending battle with them.

LITTLE PIG LITTLE PIG. Let me in ,, let me In ,, Not all the hairs on mY ChinnY ChiN CHiN lol

Awesome pig pen! Very stout and love how you used the timber from your land. I don't get why this video has so many dislikes. Well done and thank you for the video!

Very nice setup, blessings!

Excellent work and video.

In near north Ontario Canada my bear deterrent is a spray bottle of ammonia and a pitchfork ! Most bears are just passing through or a little curious but there has been others that needed a little persuassion to keep moving on with no serious reprecussions to the bears or myself !

That was more than he could bear.

Don’t know how I ended up watching..?? But it was pretty cool video for someone who never would normally watch, . Very nice property.. luv the trees.. Kool set up and awesome recycling..very nice 😊

25 years we've seen no bears at our cabin... the past couple years we've suddenly had 3 or 4. We don't have any domestic animals or pets but still a little bit of a worry. We'll see how this summer goes. Nice job on the video.

Thoroughly enjoyed your video. I can only dream of living in a place like that.

Man an electric fence between a bear and bacon. He must not like bacon as much as I do. They would find me, all my hair burnt off, chewing on some BACON. 😂😎

You made an amazing pig pen! Really nice.

o my gosh I love this fence. I think I may be able to do it. As a female just purchasing 19 acres and needing much fencing , its mostly forrested so I have lots of trees. Wish you did a while vid on just making the fence for us noob females.....great vid.

I work in the oil field. If we need to we will secure our camp site. And one day I was on the receiving end. It's quite the jolt. Kinda like you been grabbed. Got my attention.

Nice job. Glad to see it worked!

This bear won't likly go to that same point of interest but likely will return. I wont call bears smart , but they are persistent.

That is a small bear Last week I stepped out of my barn and there he was a big boy 30' away he just walked away as I slipped into the barn he didn't even look twice at the chickens loose in the yard ( PHEW ) He was something to see I hope he has many more years

My husband built our pig hut and goat house each from pallets and siding metal. Who lives in them? The chickens. 🙄

Beekeepers have been leading the way with this for years...but bears have always figured their way around it..….To avoid the electric fence, one bear, in South Georgia, dug under the wire and into the hives! Next to feral hogs, bears are, possibly, the next most destructive animals around....sometime they appear to destroy things just for the hell of it......they can wreck a water melon field or, even, a corn field.....intelligence and strength are their allies.

Pigs came out to greet their relative.

I have seen the Black Bears get into the Pig Pen many times. They just eat the Pigs food, the dried corn. They leave the pigs alone. The bears Don't want any Trouble

Bears think it’s Shocking what they must do for some Pork around there.

Thanks for the information..... Keep up the videos.

Add a small goose pen. They are fantastic sentries, and will squawk their heads off when a bear approaches. Suggest too that you investigate the use of waratahs (as we know them down under), or steel Y-posts, driven into the ground and projecting outward at an angle of 45º. Attach insulators and hot wire surrounding the pig pen at a height of about 600 mm. Too low for the bear to crawl under, or step over, without getting 'dissuaded'.

For what it is worth. If you stretch some wire and have it set up using tight springs and a horn system - Bear or wild animal pushes against this wire and causes wire ends to come into contact with each other and a loud truck horn goes off! Think about it. Not only does it protect the bacon but you get to hear when something is there! @ horn system used.

That bear is probably jealous that isn't his home.

I’d put some cameras watching my pigs, and a lot of solar lights and keep some shot guns by each door

Good job, great pig pen. The only thing I don't like is it's all shovel and wheelbarrow work to clean it. Having had pigs I know its constant clean up. Like to set them up so I can get my little tractor in there. Takes a lot of the manual labor out. Really nice pig pen though.

one problem you need extra gound wire on top detering climbing just keeping a shock with out animal touching the earth just add grounded wire six inches from hot parallel at top and in middle that bear is thinking about that bacon

The bear was just trying to rescue the pigs! Lol!!

Nice planning and work. Very smart Sir.

Wow that's scary stuff lucky they are so protected well done

I guess he got quite the zap cuz that small area you have electrified will increase the intensity of the jolt.

It’s a bit like me going to the drive through only to find out it’s closed

Nice job 👍 Thanks for sharing

All this work and you missed the highlight shot -- the bear getting shocked. That's what makes a video like this better.

I was ready for the bear to catch fire from touching the fence, instantaneous combustion.

That was a young skinny bear. I felt sorry for it. You can tell he is starving. Nice pig pin buddy.

Looks like the same bear, i would off added another line of electric wiring on the top beam just for added protection

He didn’t want any pork after that zap. Lol

Great idea

Well ain't you crafty! Nice job.

Good job working with what ya have!🤗

The electric fence should work pretty good but a 30 odd 6 would work a whole lot better not only that it would take care of your bear problem but it'll be meat for the freezer

The smell of sour grain seeps far into the woods, it's more likely that's what's got his attention, bacon is probably just an opportunity.

“Hey Yogi I don’t think you should touch that fence!”. “ Ah don’t worry Boo-Boo, I’m just looking for, like a picnic basket!!!”.

I'm amazed @ your level of building. Nice work, & good job! Says a lot about you. Thanks.

Awesome job

Bears are smarter than you think.

last summer I had a black bear go thru my 2 strand electric fence 6 different times. the fence surrounds a empty pasture with nothing in it. it was just in the way of where he wanted to go.

Very good idea, good luck

‘If I decide to take my pigs to the butcher’. If I take my pigs to the vet. If I take my pigs to the grooming parlor. If I take my pigs to the movies. If I take my pigs to see grandma . . . 😃

That's how I felt when my doctor said no more bacon.

Great job .

Pigs being smart af would learn not to touch the fence.

That’s a skinny bear. Can you imagine how delicious the porkers smelled to it? It can’t be easy for them to find a good meal.

The bear got to work for his bacon.

Your pen and design is brilliant🌟👍🏻

Being a retired Marine, know importance of securing an area against predators, man and beast. Just some food for thought, if I may. I'd consider not only the electrification of the pig pin, but at a minimal, attaching consternation wire (razor sharp) on the top logs and install similar logs on bottom and attaching wire there as well. But, the sadistic person I am, I'd wrap the entire pin with consternation wire and LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Them pigs look like they was ready to get somewhere!!!!lol

I'd say the pigs just told him to piss off or they'd beat the crap out of him! "We beat the crap out of the Big Bad Wolf as well" they hollered !

A bit of cyan pepper sprinkled around the perimeter would help alot also

Dispatch the pigs! Yes, master.

Really thrilling!

I have zapped myself on my 1.2/1.3 joule energizer... and it will WAKE YOU UP.......cant imagine what your fence must feel like......sheesh

Nice music. Great footage. More footage and music brother man.

He definitely moved quick after that shock. lol 12:50 upper left corner, between the trees. gone

They are smart. I hope he doesnt figure out the on/off switch just outside the door on your building. BUT your setup does look very well thought out. Good luck !

I would have went with seven lines but if that deters the animals you are trying to keep out then save the money but the door material and quality of hinges is very important that's why I always use stainless steel hinges and bolts especially as they will not rust. The other important thing is making sure the posts are deep enough and that you use a Sonic tube for a good concentration of cement at the bottom on top of drilling a hole through the bottom with a steel rod about 3 ft wide show the pole does not spin but I'm sure you know what you're doing. If your door is not that secure I would definitely put a electronic 4 ft mat in front of each door. I once made an enclosure and did not use electronic fence I used electronic mats all the way around the perimeter and nothing 10 plus after stepping on that mat but then again if you have snow then you would get heated Electric Mets that are 4 ft by 4 ft. After surrounding my house with electric fence about 50 ft away from my house I put electric mats just in case around all of my entry points but I also have a proximity sensor that is 5 ft away from my electric fence so I know if an animal is going to come near my electric fence or just to know that there is something out there that wants to get in. Besides having a very good alarm system I have installed thermal and night vision cameras all around my homes. The home that is most secure is my home in Utah on 135 Acres.

TOP JOB, MICK FROM UK.

Looks at thumbnail and title... “Ok I’ll bite”

That looks like prime bigfoot territory.

Beautiful