Posted: 6/21/2009 7:29:52 PM EDT
| I will be installing a PetSafe Stubborn Dog Invisable Fence. I havent ordered it yet but what are some helpful hints in how to bury the wire and how deep should I go. Thanks. |
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Just a few Inches. Enough that it won't accidentally get dug up by a rake or something. They will work great. With most of those fences they will shock two feet on either side of the line. So keep that in mind when burying it. You can keep the dog up to four feet away from a fence line if needed by moving line back two feet.
Also if you dog is a "wanderer" it works great. If they like to "bolt" then it may not work so great. Once the dog defeats the system it knows it only has to endure a few seconds to be free and usually the system is useless after that point. Also, once the dog clears that line, it can not come back cause it will get corrected when it tries. Hope this helps |
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Call Miss Dig, or who ever you have in that area, to mark all of your lines if they are underground. I used to work for Invisible Fence and have cut many a cable and telephone line due to improper line markings or no markings at all. You shouldn't have to worry about any other lines as the important ones are usually pretty deep, unless you or a previous owner had a shoddy electrician wire an out building. As far as line depth goes, it depends on the product. Follow what ever directions it has with it as signal strength can vary depending on the length of the line buried (long run say, a couple thousand feet, will be able to produce less signal zone (say four - six feet total) than a short run (500ft.) which say would produce a larger, say ten - twelve foot zone). At Invisible Fence we used a line trencher which buried the line a good four to six inches, deeper if the ground was moist, more shallow when it was 100 degrees with no rain for the last two weeks. Also if you have a cable line or something running though your yard, it may pick up on the fences signal and you may get stray signal following the line, up to and including whatever that cable is connected to (phone/tv inside the house). Not a whole lot you can do with that except for trying to move the line(s) or buying a signal masker that some companies have. Same thing goes for if it's near a metal fence - it may pick up and intensify or pull the signal. If I think of anything else, I'll post more. |