It sounds like the fence may be over charged. It sounds like too much voltage for the diameter or metal the wire is made of if.
Or it could be hooked up incorrectly.
Is it solar or hooked up to household current?
Solar is pretty safe but if it is incorrectly hooked up to 120 volt current someone could get hurt.
Do you know an electrician who could test the fence for you?
Well the part that is popping and sparking the loudest/worse is over by the house on their property. No clue what it’s hooked into, though it sounds ferocious enough to be directly into a power line… This is a big blue spark! spark! spark! along with the loud popping. I can try to get video tonight on my way home… The popping on the fence between us is only when it rains or is really misty. It makes me twitchy though.
Spend $20 bucks and buy him a “fence alert” doodad to hang on his fence. Think
it flashed red when electric fails.
Interesting! 
The fence is arcing. Here is a thread about it.
www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?347646-Electric-fence-snapping
Doesn’t sound like the fence will function for long.
Here it is, for some reason my phone couldn’t get the sound (a couple pops at the beginning and that’s it) but the spark is clear. I’m standing in front of my barn, and my house is about 200’ behind me and his house is about 300’ away from me. How he sleeps at night… I would go insane.
I think I’ll get one for me and one for him, is this the correct doodad? Do they work on coated hot wire? That’s what I’m using in places.
Is there anywhere near the popping that has some frays in the wire or where the fence is touching something else? That kind of popping happens when there is a short break in the wire and the electricity jumps over. It will reduce your voltage on the other side of the damage.
For the noise to be that loud there has to be a crap ton of electricity going through the wire.
That’s what I was thinking :eek:
And I don’t know what it looks like… it’s about 250’ onto his property.
[QUOTE=enjoytheride;9030227]
Is there anywhere near the popping that has some frays in the wire or where the fence is touching something else? That kind of popping happens when there is a short break in the wire and the electricity jumps over. It will reduce your voltage on the other side of the damage.
For the noise to be that loud there has to be a crap ton of electricity going through the wire.[/QUOTE]
THIS is exactly what worries me!
The load on those wires is more than it should be.
Do not touch it, do not go near it.
Can you explain the sitch to a licensed electrician and get an opinion? I know this is not normal, and possibly it is dangerous but that’s all I’ve got at this point.
Guilherme might be able to help, had a good post on the thread I linked to.
If this was the dry season, I’d speak up now… but it isn’t
I hope there are no wandering neighborhood children. A fence like that could kill a child who grabbed it not knowing what the sound was from.
I would be tempted to call the county electrical inspector or the power company and report the crazy popping and say “I don’t know where it’s coming from” and get them to check on it. The disinterested third party can take it from there. Sounds like he’s rigged up some jackleg system and it’s dangerously overloaded. With a normal charger I can’t hear it popping from more than about 20-30’ away (like when a branch fell on it and it’s shorting out), and I have bat-like hearing 
And I have ~30 percent loss in both ears :lol: I wonder…my house is still under construction and getting inspected, would an inspector notice and report? Or no? I could call the local power co, but I’m not sure how much they’d investigate once they saw it was on his private property?
I am actually sympathetic to your plight, but I have to laugh at the irony of you calling an official to complain, especially after some of the crazy calls you have had. After explanation your problem makes sense, but the initial call would have someone rolling her/his eyes:
“Hello? I’d like to report a problem with my neighbor. His fence is too loud.”
Can you pull the electrical inspector aside while he’s looking at your place and share you concerns with the snapping fence?
Mention it to whoever is supervising construction at your place, and they’ll mention it to the inspectors, or the electric company.
I would contact PSE about the arcing fence. Did they tap into a power line, sheesh
So it’s been a while… and yes their cows continued to get out onto my property, and their dog a few times too. I documented it in photos for the most part, and screen shots off my security cameras.
I was also as nice as I could be, but I was also pretty clear. Such as “I’ll have to check in the morning but I hope they didn’t damage my landscaping, I just spent like $2k…” with a pointed look. Their offer? “We can come help clean up if you want,” meaning cow poop. No thanks.
It finally came to a head this weekend when I come home and lo and behold, a bull in my front yard. I tried calling and messaging them both with no response, and spent about 45 minutes to get him back where he belonged. I messaged her and said I had been a good sport, but was at a loss at this point because I had been nice for a while and at this point, I was mad. I got some snarky messages back about a “technical difficulty” with the electric to the fence but it was working, so I said it was great to read that I wouldn’t have cows on my property anymore. She then says she can’t promise they won’t continue to get out, and it went down hill from there.
In this state, fences on adjoining properties must be paid half by one and half on the other, as long as both halves are using it, as in it encloses both properties. My property, since I didn’t fence to my fence line anywhere along any property line, isn’t truly enclosed because the guy on the back side is fenced about 7’ inside his property. They argued that since I put up an electric gate on my driveway, my property was now enclosed and I needed to pony up.
I told them to sue me, but that if they went this route, I would present photos of their cows and dog on my property for the last two years to court and ACO, and witness statements from other neighbors about their roaming pigs. In this state, animals that are continually breaching fences or getting loose is a gross misdemeanor for each instance.
Radio silence for the most part other than a message saying they are now fencing inside their property line and are either going to locate a survey or pay for one (that will be some sticker shock if they do), but still going to talk with an attorney about their rights and to find options to repair a “good neighborly relationship.”
Just so COTH can say they all saw it coming
People are garbage.
:lol:
You (probably more them) owe me a monitor cleaning job.
Well yes, an attorney is always the best way to make a “good neighborly relationship” when you have been letting your livestock wander free about the neighborhood all this time.
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