More Seine Twine Adventures

[aggienaut]

   Today was nice and warm, 91f /33c, warmest day so far this year. Many locals seem to consider this weather to be "hot" and try to limit their outdoor activity but I love it and was out working the bees from when it became warm enough around 9am until light became insufficient sometime after 8pm.

   As I was leaving one of the areas I have beehives, there's a gate I need to close behind me that latches with a metal clip on the end of a chain, and I found when I had opened it I let it swing back and latch on to the electric fence. On a previous occasion it had been touching the electric fence and I tried to touch it while wearing the leather beekeeping gloves but somehow they didn't protect me and I got a massive electrical shock I am in no way keen to experience again.
   Last time it was just touching the wire but on this occasion the latch actually had latched itself over the wire, so I would have to fumble with it which would be very very hard while receiving the powerful shock running through these wires. I couldn't leave the gate open or the cows would wander out of the paddock. But what to doooo?
   Ah! But wait! I happened to have two short nips of seine twine in the truck because of course I do. I very very very carefully threaded one strand through the latch-hook and out the other around the spring-clip that closes it. By carefully pulling on the one that opens the spring-clip and then pulling the whole latch off with the other I was able to get the latch off of the electrified fence wire!

   Arriving at home just as twilight was dwindling away, but finding it still warm out, and finding I have one root beer left in the fridge, I made myself a rootbeer float. :d


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Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

We don't have rootbeer in Spain. And now I want a float.
That is the cutest photo yet of you two!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Over here I can only get it from the American import store in Melbourne :-[]

Thanks!

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

Glad you had the twine! Electric fence shocks are not fun.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

When I first realized the clip was latched on to the wire I was like nononononono because I really didn't know how I could get it off if the thing could shock me through the leather gloves. I really really didn't enjoy the shock I had received earlier. Thank god I had the seine twine! (:

[lookfar.livejournal.com]

On Twitter, I follow a feed called "Fox a Day." Just sayin', you could have that as well.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Haha aww. There's a great deal of animosity towards foxes here because they eat people's chickens and stuff, but they're so cute. I was surprised the other day to see one in broad daylight -- I was working on a beehive and one scampered by about forty feet away!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I'm not local to you but I *am* Australian, and I consider 33C to be too hot to be outside. (Here in Perth the Bureau of Meteorology site has been warning this week that the UV index is 9 and we should avoid being in the sun between 8:20 am and 3:40 pm, even on days when the temperature is below 30C.)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ahh I remember when I lived in QLD the UV index was _always_ off the scale at 17+ !! way down here I don't worry about it too much though

[md-meezer.livejournal.com]

creative solution to your shocking problem. Rootbeer floats and a plate of fruit, Yummy! nice picture too.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

When I first realized the clip was latched on to the wire I was like nononononono because I really didn't know how I could get it off if the thing could shock me through the leather gloves. Thank god I had the seine twine! (: