DAVELn17,
The area is about 75 ft by 50 ft. Three Red Haven peach trees and 3 cherries trees. They are 12 -15 ft apart. We have the E-fence on a timer for nigh time only.
Solar chargers work from what I have read. The main hang up is the cost of the battery.
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Thanks! Do you mean cost of replacing The battery down the road or do you have to buy one up front?
I thought they were off the shelf solutions. (I’m totally new to this)
Game of orchards!
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https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/american-farmworks-5-mile-solar-low-impedance-charger
For example… Should come with battery and be ready to go. Mine’s been in place for about 2 years now and no battery issues so far. [edited to indicate model I actually have]
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Thanks! Yep I started poking around on TSC website but may go with Gallagher or Zareba for that “go with the experts” type of feeling LOL
I was wrong, the S model does come with a battery. just make sure you have enough joules power to keep your pests at bay.
You being new to chargers; My advice is build it sturdy. Many folks complain about maintenance. But if installed with sturdy corner posts and have a solution for weeds it should be great. I have found wind blown small sticks shorting mine out.
Any farm store will have all the parts. They are pretty cheep to. I went with the poly cord and plastic insulators. I recommend the plastic cranks that tension the line.
Corner posts; I used a standard “Tee” post but used one diagonally to prevent the E-wire tension from slowly leaning it in
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Based solely on the visual, I’d say the one I have and this one, are one and the same… Don’t know who the actual manufacturer is but someone resells the other most likely…
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Thanks @Paddy
My area is fairly small and the entire thing is mulched , so I should have no grass issues.
I’m just trying to keep 'possums, 'coons, and groundhogs out.
It will be a permanent installation, not something i plan to move around.
I have seen the tensioners and will probably use one. But thinking i may use metal wire versus poly for the strength (?) since i don’t need to move it or re-use it.
Trying to think mostly about what kind of posts to use so i don’t break the bank. I will be running 2 wires.
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Don’t know if it matters, but I think those are the bites of a rodent on your apple, and racoons are not rodents.
Thoughts on what it might be then? I know we have one or more racoons, possums, and skunks around. Probably plenty more, those are just the nocturnal feeders I’ve witnessed… Haven’t seen a groundhog in a while, not since I “got rid of” one last year. Whatever it was though it broke multiple limbs about as big around as my thumb.
I have a game camera aimed at the tree now so maybe will know for sure shortly…
Thanks.
Broken limbs does sound like racoon, from what I’ve heard, so maybe it was. Surprised it didn’t just take the whole apple, though.
Heh… tree went from 5 apples to 1… another tree went from 15 apples to 9… some still hanging with bite marks, others 20’ from tree half eaten… having experienced coons and corn in the past, they were my primary suspect 
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Coons, deer, bears, locusts…and coronavirus and anarchy in the streets…sounds apocalyptic.
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Paddy,
Thanks. I have a HOA I need to deal with. I may have a issue doing something like you have.
Dave
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In trying to trap and relocate a groundhog who’s been eating my stuff, I actually got a raccoon in the middle of the day.
At least this pawpaw-thief will be gotten rid of.
I’m definitely gonna have to get a fence up if I want to protect my pawpaws. 
Could get a coon dog and give him low rations so he’ll be hungry!
Heh, country boy here… Went on my first coon huntin’ trip around age 5 
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Probably a couple years older for me…and maybe 12 before I got to take a gun out hunting by myself.
Pitty city folks can’t shoot critters destroying their stuff…like us country folk can.