Actually, if you connect the hot wire of the charger to the fence, and the
ground lead of the charger directly to the chicken wire (and to a ground rod
as well), soil conductivity isn't critical, and you get the maximum zap per
volt of charger output.  Bond the chicken wire together well wherever you have
to make a joint.
 
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Subject: Re: I've Been Visited...
From:    SMTP.BEEL1 at ROHMAIL
Date:    5/5/95  12:08 PM
 
Paul van Westendorp wrote:
 
 
    In any event, if you do put up a fence now, you want to make sure you
    apply the maximum zap to the bear when it does return.  I suggest you put
    up the fence and place chicken wire on the ground just outside the fence.
    Make sure to ground the chicken wire well; if it is placed just on dry
    sandy soil you may not have enough grounding.