How do you put a gate in a hot wire/t-post fence?

[JoZ]

I hope I can describe this adequately. I am rewiring my fence. The main fence is mesh on wooden posts and t-posts alternating. So for the most part all I’m redoing is a strand of hot wire that runs across the top. Let’s call what I’m using Electrobraid though it is a local brand and somewhat thinner. Definitely cheaper!

At one spot on the fence I want to run a semi-circle of t-posts to keep horses out of a certain area. Picture the semi-circle cutting off a corner of a pasture. I will run one strand along the perimeter fence but will probably find a way to run two wires at least on the standalone t-posts forming the arc. The only problem with this is that the gate to the outside world happens to be inside that semi-circle, so in order to put horses in and out of this pasture, I will need a gate in the new line of fencing (the semi-circle). It won’t be horribly long – 30 feet maybe? – from one permanent fence to the other. But I still feel that if I have the whole thing act as a gate (i.e. put a handle on the end of the wires) it will just fall to the ground and be a mess when I use it. But I’m used to running wire through insulators that let the wire move freely, so i just am not seeing how to do it.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[SuzieQNutter]

You attach it to a handle. When you open the gate, if the electricity is from the side so the sire attached to the handle, you take the handle, open the gate. Walk along and hang it on the electric wire so as the wire is not touching the ground or anything else.

It the electricity is going so as when you take the handle of there is no electricity connected to the wire attached to it you can put it on the ground or hang it anywhere you like.

[susanne]

I’ve done as decribed above. The gate wire itself is not attached to the fence hot wire at the “hinge” end, but ends, wrapped around separate insulators. This way it is only hot when the handle is hooked to the hot wire of the fence.

[ReSomething]

DH has hun![]( metal gates by wiring a post to a tpost and hanging the metal gate to that before. Saves post holes in this rocky ground. Otherwise you go buy some electric fence wire, attach a ceramic insulator or the plastic equivalent to one end of your fence to stop it there, and another as a start point for your gate, then run the gate rope from that. At the other end, you have to attach to a hot point, so you’ll need to make a jumper to hook into. We have two gates hooking into each other at one t postwhere there is a third fence coming up, and there is a wire cloverleaf for the two gates that is electrified by the other fence, that is the fanciest one, and the simplest one is the one I just hang the handle over a hot wire and it picks up it’s charge from that.
You have to have at least one in the fence to look at and see how they ended it.[IMG]http://www.crawlersgullydorpers.com/uploads/4/2/2/6/4226155/5722494_orig.jpg) That pic has all the parts, though not quite how you would use them.