Im not trying to sound like a hippie .. but up north is melting big time ! one day you might not see these guys and i wonder if coke cola would change there lil advertisements lol
@Phillip Cameron Nature's the best serial killer out there. Excess population means disease and diminishing the area's carrying capacity to the point species migrate or starve.
People use common sense... the reason it states the safety of themselves and THE BEARS is because they obviously have guns and will be the last resort using em if the fence fails.
Jim bob no way I wouldn’t ever use that against a polar bear if I had to use something it would be my smle I don’t personally think a shotgun would do much even with slugs or buckshot Edit At least my smle and I don’t think even that would be enough to reliably stop it
I heard a wildlife biologist say that if a polar bear pays any attention to you at all, it's sizing you up the see if it can eat you. And if it can, it will.
I just fell down a RU-vid rabbit hole and ended up here. I'm not sure how or why I'm here, but I just watched this super intently and was intrigued by it. I even rewatched some parts. Awesome video.
Especially as the bear nearly didn't flinch at the current. Once it gets used to it, it should be able to ignore it just as a human can if deciding so after a little practice. This is why you should always be at least two people in polar bear country so that the stronger guy can give the weaker guy to the bear. :-)
@@mG-vl5xb Although I certainly COULD be an English teacher, I'm actually not even a native speaker of English. Something tells me Swedish wouldn't fly so well here. :-)
@tiredofpc K Not always. I've seen video of bears meeting dogs and engaging in play instead of fighting. But yeah, a hungry bear is not to be trifled with.
You would probably shake a little too if you were that close to a 800lb polar bear! Also, I’m sure he was holding a gun or riffle in the other hand ready to shoot if needed.
The camera is mounted on a javelin AT weapon system as most cameras are nowadays in the northern hemisphere...so you don't have to worry about the cameraman....I'm more worried about the guy who often appears in the bear costumes elsewhere on the internet though, it's a dead giveaway when he has to go no.1
If a very hungry Polar bear hit the fence at a full run because it could see an easy meal, it would be through it in a few seconds. It should be used in conjunction with other measures.
Years ago, working on ranches in Northern Arizona, from time to time we'd get some city boy who wanted to be a cowboy... We'd tell him he'd have to adhere to the rules. All of them! Checking fences and electrified corrals was one of our tasks. After a while, we'd stop for a *pee break. One of us would tell that city boy: "Betcha' can't hit that third wire... " You coulda' heard that kid howl in the next County over! Earning your spurs the hard way! Lol!
A word of caution run 2 fence lines 10 to 20 feet apart the reason for this is and i know from experience that when the wildlife or in my case livestock get shocked they get spooked and a good 75 percent of the time they will bolt through the fence this is why you should have a second fence. It also states in the manual that electric fencing should not be used as a primary fence so in your situation not feasible to have a main fence so 2 runs work for your safety because sooner or later when they smell something they like they will be determined just like livestock thinking there is something better on the other side. The higher the joules of fencers the better i use a 50 jule fencer when I go camping up north in bush if you'd ever been cornered by a grizzley or pack of wolves you'd understand its not the animals fault they just follow their nose to food
Well...I would never ever sleep in a little tent next to a wire fence in Bear country. In fact, I would never sleep in a big tent next to a wire fence in Bear country. The Bear could be easily confused and go right through the fence and have a field day with you. I might consider it if there were two fences but it would still be a hard sell:-) Bears have a great sense of smell and once they know they have a meal in hand, a hungry Bear can be VERY determined. Especially Polar Bears.
Gallagher electric fencing ,a strong New Zealand invention ,going back to 1936, By Bill Gallagher, Built by car ignition trembler coil set, used originally to keep his Horse from scratching his car.
@@HansOvervoorde He let them roam around freely apparently,and they and the cows got close,if you have ever spent time on a farm,you will see that animals are quite ignorant to vehicles that aren't moving,they move away pretty quickly if they are.
I had a mule and a goat both that would brace themselves and then charge headlong through electric fences. Even had a beagle that would. Carry a big gun or your dependence on an electric fence may turn you into a bear turd.
My goat fence was 8,500 volts and the video says this charger is only 7,500 volts. I once grabbed both posts on the charger with my bare hands. The charger wasn't connected to the fence so I got the full 8,500 volts. It caused every muscle in my body to tense up so tight I couldn't even swear. When it pulsed off I jumped back 5'. I would want a charger at least double the 7,500 volts.
It's not just the voltage. All over 1kv are more than enough too get shocked. The capacitor in it just need to be a little bit larger. But that's something that can be really dangerous if you go just a little bit to far. :D
I keep thinking Timothy Treadwell & the Grizzly Bears. That fencing, a solid concrete building reinforced by rebar & a bazooka would be the only way I'd camp out anywhere near bears of any kind. I'm a 🐔
I wouldn't depend on the fence. Cattle will avoid electric fences but if they really want to go through them they will, without that much bother either.
Well, cattle ain't known for having much for smarts, as in "they be stupid". On the other hand, bears are pretty smart, sometimes anywho. But they do be stupid too at times.
@@ColoradoHermit Rodger that. My point is that when cattle really want to go through it they just go. I reckon if a bear made up his mind it would not stop him. I would be packing some heat just in case.
When I was about 8 running to get a frisby that was thrown to far, I leapt up off the ground right onto an electric fence. Knocked me out me out for a split second. I was awake before I hit the ground. If that polar bear got hit with the juice I experienced he would not have casually went back for round 2.
@@anomous2307 Hmmm. I grew up on a farm and I can catch and hold an electric fence. Admittedly my arm twitches involuntarily and also admittedly I wouldn't do it in my bare feet. I have also seen cattle many times decide that they really need to be on the other side of the fence and walk through it taking a shock or two as they go. Don't underestimate what a powerful animal will do if their blood is up or they are really hungry etc
@@vinniesdayoff3968 idk if the shock I encountered was normal, I jumped up off the ground onto the fence. And who knows how my grandfather had it setup. I was just visiting, I really have no idea.
well we use electric fences with cattle...it works..but it doesn't stop any amimal who does to go through.. i even saw a cow able to withstand the shock.. i saw her body shook, but she did'nt care..she was used to it... may be bears are more sensitive...but i think they are cautious.. but curious..
I’ve got an old fence charger commonly called a weed chopper. Not good for areas with dry grass as it will ignite the grass. That’s what I would want to use around polar bears.
Yeah, proper electric fence is a great thing. I remeber in old days when my grandpa had bigs bulls, it always did a good job holding their temper XD Also me and my brothers were playing this game, who will hold to the wire for longer, we could never stand two "kicks" from this current in the wire XD
I did that It was on the fence line of our yard. He kept his cattle out of our yard and our milk cow from going into there yard When I stepped up with my hands and barefoot I was about 4 my sister came over when she seen me shaking and pushed me off with a stick. After I got off, my hair was sticking up😮
For added umff to the fence, I’ve always laid chicken wire around the perimeter to which I connected the ground. I’ve used Gallagher fences for 30 years with the flexinet fencing to keep bears out of my bee yards in the mountains when in the fireweed honey flow. Never had a bear breech it yet.
I thought CNN said that the last 3 Polar Bears left up north were all very skinny due to global warming.....These bears were very rotund and numerous....
@@joewoodchuck3824 A firearm is a MUST. I'm saying that two fences should be a must as well. Can't count on one. But that's just me and my luck talking.
@@gabe6281 I hear ya. One could also think about a second firearm and second bear spray too. You never know if one might fail or be more out of reach. It's your hide. You should have the right and the means to protect it.
Backup Plan: for my campsite,.... two EXTRA electric fences, bear spray, PUNJI sticks (Viet Cong style), half dozen watch dogs on all sides, Bon fires (esp at night), motion sensors, train horn, and last but not least if all else failed, back to back 50 Cal machine guns for me and my buddy facing opposite directions. Important to cover your 6 o’clock at all times. LOL. While some may find this a little extreme, my situation is I’ve already taken a few rounds all at once. Like hot electricity tearing you up on the inside. Which is what I imagine bear claws shredding a person would feel like. So no amount of protection would be too much in my book, if you can get/have it. ( I realize all this is not practical,...just what I would LIKE. ;-)
Nice video...oh yeah it works great on all sorts of wild life...however; we had a herd of "free range" cattle that kept coming on our land so we installed a similar electric fence (ribbon style), the very large yellow bull that sort'a was the alpha of the herd was hardly fazed by this. Regularly he would just "bull" through the fence, there seemed no stopping him from getting access to our nice, lush green manicured grass...after 3 years of this I finally sold the property (formerly a 9-hole golf course on the Klamath River) and moved away from this one-ton tank... ... ... ... ... ... ...
@Talkin Bout Nawlins no matter how deadly they are one or two shots with a nice sized bullet between the head and its dead. People who get attacked and killed are usually people with guns to small that feel like bee stings, they are unarmed or the bear spray was ineffective.
@Talkin Bout Nawlins no hunter will ever do a head shot, way too tricky also the head move much faster than someone would think so...its all about the heart lung combo... even so some bear will run for miles even with a hole in the lungs
@@jimmy-jamesolivier-mccutch2126 A bear's skull is pretty thick. A low calibre bullet might deflect off it. Better to aim for the torso if you must shoot.
Would it be far better to have a full built solid building of wood or even brick with a lookout dome on the top and of course and more solid big electric fence and gate. I sure a transporter aircraft or if your near the sea a ship could off load the building as a per-build building or a pre-fab one to build there? Better than a set of cold tents.
Compared to the way brown bears jump back and run scared immediately upon getting shocked as seen on videos, this fence seems under-powered for these bears.
Ya the bears show little interest in our camp as the camera films a bear interested in the camp. Then it says the best decides it's not interested. Well, that's because it got zapped on a different occasion.
May look inhuman but I think that fence is saving not only human life's but the bears as well, maybe a shocking experience for the bear but that's better then ending up a rug.
inhumane ? Being shocked ??? So....do you have electricity in your home ? What about the poor linesmen working on the power lines ? They " never " get shocked ?
I would spay a scent near the electric fence so the bears associate the smell with the shock. After a few zaps, just the smell would keep them away. Then I would make that scent my new aftershave.
DO NOT rely on this or think this makes you "safe" by any means. I was out camping 7 years ago and tried doing this whole electric fence mumbo jumbo... we had two fences... this MASSSIVE polar bear knew the fences were electric without even having to touch them, he obviously had dealt with them before... my friend was watching the bear walk up and down the fence, getting hungrier and hungrier, so to tease it, my friend started cooking grilling sausages and steaks... laughing, holding a bud light in one hand and grilling with the other, laughing, sautéing onions, the smell wafering in the wind with the smell of cooked meat, butter and onions... suddenly I wanted from 20 yards away as the bear started to walk away from the fence... turn around... and almost in slow motion, he started building up speed... getting a "running start"... he jumped over BOTH fences like he didn't give a F, landed on the other side, and before me or my friend could reach for our rifles, the bear killed him in a single bite of the throat, and started walking towards me, it took everything I had, and more, to come to grips with what i just witnessed, i grabbed my rifle, and began firing round after round after round into the bear... he just... kept... coming, so i made my retreat, and took off, and as i turned around to look, i watched as the bear gobbled up what was left of my friend... it still haunts me to this very day.... this is "not a cool video showing how a camp is protected" from bears... don't give people the impression that a hungry bear wont just leap over the fence.. you'd be SUPRISED at what they can do... 2 years after that I took another friend camping and we had three electric fences up, and 3 bears came up to the fence, one pushed the other into the fence, climbed on top of him and jumped over the other two fence and gobbled up my friend before we could even scratch our nose... and since then I have come to grips with the fact that ELECTRIC fences do not work. but flame throwers work wonders on polar bears. just trust me on this. always take a flame thrower.
I always heard it put like this in regards to the lethality of bears: "If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down (play dead). If it's white...goodnight!"
I'd probably be shaking if a giant human eating predator was circling that camp if I were filming with the zoom function active. Don't you guys shake if you're zooming the camera while you hold your phone?
Im a simpleton i worked out eletric fence tiingle from a young age,, if contact with skin, big boi is mostly fluff, you would need to fit that with fish hooks, and seriously put the poles in the ground that wouldnt move, with some kind of light incase of night attack and sound disorientation
@@bredockschannel7331 Apparently black bears are less worried about getting dirt on their fur. :) Also a bit more difficult for polar bears to dig since they're typically on ice, rock, or frozen ground.
Casey Anderson has a video (VisionHawk Films) of a female grizzly running hell's bells for him through a 4 strand barbed wire fence (right through without missing a step).
@Bob Watters ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9c9-K0fSCPQ.html L shaped barbed wire fence, she goes through the first set and then heads toward Anderson but stops short as he discharges pepper spray.