Defending my beehives, the electric fence usually wins in the end. No bears were harmed.
With the very hot weather in western Canada during the summer of 2021 the berry crop was poor and many bears were displaced by the many wildfires. We had dozens of visits from black bears that year.
The fence has been improved upon since.
When I was young, my parents took me to visit a relative on a farm. As they went inside, I ran to the back to see the pigs. I wondered why such a small wire could hold those pigs in. I grabbed the wire to put my leg over the fence. The relatives, realizing I had gone to the back were screaming at me to stop. But I didn’t hear them soon enough. What a learning experience for Me. Now, I know why the little wire held the pigs in.😊
when we were kids walking to the school bus we'd walk along an electric fence. With our rubber soled shoes we'd touch the wire and see who was "man enough" to hang on the longest. It wasn't that bad of a shock, and it happend in repeated pulses. But then one day while I was holding onto it the dog came up from behind me and licked my other hand. . . with his bare feet nice and grounded.
Then what happened?@@snap-off5383
Found out the same thing for horses
Bullshit fake human
@@snap-off5383lol yup its not the voltage that will kill you its the current
Some stubborn critters. They definitely don't give up easily
Just blast that nuisance
Thats when you bring out the 12 gauge slugs
I would look at you if your food reservoirs and habitat would be eliminated 😂 how stubborn would you be?
In all slavic languges the name for a bear is honey eater
These animals r dying n u idiots don’t realize that consequences
You should put some honey on the wires. They should get the message after they lick the wire a few times.
My grandfather did precisely that ... rubbed the wires with honey. The sane bear, after three licks and three electric jolts never returned.
You should put Honey on yur little Prick JERK & let the Bear lick it offff !
@@mikelang8020 My sense is that you know what you are talking about.
Perhaps l am wrong, but it looked like at least one of them already licked the fence and it made no real difference. Maybe it takes a few times before they get the message.
Put honey on it and increase the voltage
I’ve learned that with electric fencing if you put strips of aluminum foil wrapped tightly on the wire in different spots, then put peanut butter on the foil..they go for a lick and get a nice electric zap to their tongue. Seems to train the dear around my place.
Lol that's awesome. I'd call this clever and sneaky method of bear prevention.
You spelled deer and bear together and got dear 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND Oops. But that is what we grow in Idaho. 😎
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your a sadist get professional help
that confirms it, bears don't like electric fences.
Yup, it´s pretty unpleasant - the closer to the head, the bigger impact it has. Once I´ve got shocked into neck and my head hurt as hell afterwards.
It also confirms that bears still get through electric fences to damage the hives. LOL
@@Icehso140 That was quite SHOCKING realization for me, too! I wonder if it would be better if they would use net-like pattern than just lines. But then it would entangle the bear or he would rip it down.
If Smokey the Bear made more money stamping out forest fires, he could afford to buy the honey like I have too. LOL@@miroslavzima8856
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I'm all for exhausting non-lethal deterrence, but they are stubborn and persistent. If I had that level of problem I'd set up a motion alert and have manual control on a line voltage connection to the fence. They'd think twice about returning after an episode of getting knocked flat for a few minutes.
Black bears keep coming back. If you use bear spray in camp, they run off and ten minutes later they're back. Not so for grizzlies. Blackies are much more persistent.
Good idea, 5 amps will knock them over, a car battery will provide that.
Using line voltage is illegal.
Thats hectic to treat bears with such disrespect. They are only trying to figure out what is going on with the fence and boxes. Curiousity that is. In reality what you want to do is shoot them with a non lethal dart gun and knock them out that way then transport a few miles away to get them away from this situation. Saying you would want to shock them with even more voltage is very inhumane!
@@yorkshire_saddlehunter184 Relocation does not work. Nuisance animals that are a threat to life, property and livestock are typically eliminated. Bears are intelligent, persistent and stubborn. A strong force that causes them no permanent harm and educates them is better than the alternative.
Black bears truly are the most majestic and adorable raccoons! 🐻❤️
Got that right
raccoons on roids
Damn, the first ones went right under the fence! So much for those back packing bear fences...
just need a few more amps
If a bear wants something, it is going to get it....most of the bears in the video were just curious and looking for easy food.
If they are easily getting through the fence more often than not & trying to tip them over, then some options are ... 1. increase voltage, 2. narrow the vertical distance between the wires, 3. add more poles where the lines are longest so the wires are more taut/tight, 4. maybe make fence perimeter farther away from beehives. And maybe possibly ... 5. add another outer electric fence about a foot apart from first/inner fence.
I wondered if the bottom wire was too close to the ground and maybe touching it and grounding out. The wires are close enough that they should not be getting through without a good buzz. I would do #5 also.
@@juliemiscera267 ... It is also possible the adult bears are already getting desensitized by the present voltage level as witnessed in the video, so perhaps also #1.
the ground around the fence could be too dry and not providing a good earthing to the electric current
Or put honey in the wires
If the bottom wire is too low, the grass grows up and touches it. Once the grass lays on the wire, it drains a bit of power away from the rest of the lines. Always use weed killer around electric fencing..............or weed eat a lot.
I think dull barbs on the wires would get the charge past the fur and directly on the skin. That would make the fence much more effective.
Electric fences pulse every second. So a lucky bear can touch the fence sometimes or quickly slide under it between pulses and not get zapped. Animals who are used to electric fences learn to tell when the fence is switched on. They can probably hear it pulsing.
I can hear it too
as a kid I used to be able to see the pulsing
Those bees must be jumping for joy everytime they see the bears got zapped.😂
bees don't jump, they happy-hover
Watching current flow is always a joy!
I know someone who set there gives on steel plates. Them put fence on plates. 100% ground then. Bears went backwards quick with this set up.
For the love of Honey!
They can smell it even inside a beehive. What a refined nose!
I got my first beehive on July 2nd this year and I am so glad I don't have black bears to deal with. Winter is the Biggest threat to my bees besides having my DUMBASS as a beekeeper
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Can’t they read the sign?
The sign says not to put your hand on the fence. Bears don't have hands, so they ignore it.
@@wizardsuth They got paws
I get this silly giggle when see them get zapped then back off and run away.
"Hey Yogi, ..is that a Bunch of Bees in a box, I'll bet that's just loaded up with handfuls of 🍯 Honey!". "Yep, Boo-boo.. ..you go First!". "Okay, Yogi", ⚡⚡⚡ "Ahhhh ShhhhjTt!" Yogi -. 😂😆😂😆😂
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that must be some damn fine honey to go to all that effort and trouble to get it and protect it
Have you purchased honey at a store?
Add bacon to the wire with a clothes pin. Their tongue is better to use than their fur
It's nice to meet you, friend. That fence is super important for anyone who wants their bee hive to survive! It was interesting that they seemed to be trying to get the rock off of the top of the hive, once they were inside. It's a good thing that fence stopped them! Thank you for sharing! Very interesting video. I wish you continued success and happiness always.
Thank you.
I had a run in with an electric fence when i was 8. It was at my grand parents farm. Learned my lesson to be careful where you piss lol.
That's a lie.
@@Katchi_Reported to KZhead for spamming harassment for no reason.
Good lord brother! You are lucky you had that electric fence up otherwise you wouldn't have any standing bee hives left shew-wee
Great job on protecting their bees.
Thats exactly what "Fuck around and find out" means
Not to change the subject. After watching some videos of people being attacked by bears this should serve as an example of how persistent a predator can be. If I was out hiking or camping I'd keep a 9mm or 45 cal at my side along with a pump action shot gun to improve mine and those around me chances of survival.
'American'? . . .
@@TRPGpilot When out in the wild it is good to have a gun just in case. Do you come from a country where this isn’t an option?
Probably talking more about just starting a conversation about guns. @@joeterp5615
@@joeterp5615 yes
In Canada when people go into areas with bears they usually carry bear bells, bear barkers (a sort of firework) and bear spray. We don't want to kill the bears, just fend them off.
Cool how he bolted, told his buddies and they ALL came to to play the "Honey, I Shocked My Butt" game!!
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bear burgers sounds yummy
Slow Roast..
Increasing the voltage will definitely help. Changed the mind of deer getting in my garden. Put black plastic or mine belt down tight on the ground under the lower strand to keep weeds off.
Seems like a net mesh would work better than horizontal wires in this case. Bears are smart and they've learned they can rush the wire and avoid getting shocked. Fur probably prevents skin contact, too. Combine with a physical barrier to create a visual deterrent so the wiring can't be bullrushed.
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) by The Four Burned Bears
The floor should have an electrified mesh and maybe a siren and a powerful flash of light, together with it.
That elec fence is not rigged up right. You are relying on the earth through the ground to zap the bear, that is hopeless, if the ground is dry the bear only gets a small shock. For better results you have to have one earth wire on the bottom, then 6 inches up put a hot wire ( positive), then another 6 inches another earth wire, then another 6 inches another hot wire and keep alternating until you get the desired height finishing with a hot wire. That way when the bear stick’s its head in and tries to force the wires apart, the bears snout is creating a direct short, and feels the full power of the zapp.
🤔What's wrong with these things? There is a warning sign in plain view and they are still messing with the wires.
Seems like they need to add a few rows of razorwire and electrify that as well.
They would be table fare by now in my neck of the woods.
The bears has earned passive "electric resist" skill. 😂
The box said “Intel inside”. This service technician was just trying to check the motherboard …
Black bears can be so goofy
Considering how many bears were getting near those hives, I'd say they made a good investment with those fences.
Tape and plain wire electric fences are NOTORIOUSLY USELESS on thick furry/wooly animals, not to mention chickens. Some might get a shock on their wet nose if/when sniffing the wire, but most just walk straight through them. The best improvements are to use closely spaced *barbed wire* (to penratrate the fur), AND to have a very high current with a short frequency sender with a very good (wet) earth stake. Add some vertical strakes to prevent push-through.
Fence 58 was cover for the medusa hairs runs
Electric fences never sleep.
Pooh bear just wanted some honey
Just a SMMMMALLLL SMACKEREL!
@@williampapadopoulos8145 lol . Yep. I laughed so hard dude. That's a gooden.
Bump up the zap to 20,000 volts, use old neon sign transform. It low current so won’t hurt or kill but will zap the hell out of them. I used one as a kid to build a jacobs ladder and i stopped when I got zapped.
Made one with an old oil furnace spark transformer. It had quite a bite, at 10KV. Worked cool, and annoyed every radio within a hundred feet.
@@birdfeeding fortunately I lived on a farm in the sticks, but the neon sign transformer didn’t seem to produce RF, only when doing the jacobs ladder built out of coat hangers did it interfere with my radio on am only.
@@gomergomez1984 Yes, that's when it interfered with the radio. I should have been more specific.
@@birdfeeding That’s ok, I was so fascinated by mine I tried different items to see what would happen, worked great until I tried burning a pencil while holding it by the eraser, i quickly learned that graphite is conductive, I was knocked stupid, saw stars and heard buzzing for a half hour or so, though it might have been my best friend laughing so hard he couldn’t talk.
But high voltage can “kill” by disrupt normal functions of the animal. Though ig doesnt matter cuz not human.
Shocking that it worked on bear.
That’s like luring us into a steakhouse and then tasing you the moment you catch a whiff of the your favorite cut sizzling on the grill! 😃⚡️🤪😳🤨 👀🦇out of🔥and I ain’t coming back!…..No sir I’m taking business down the road to the Outback yard grille!🤣
A few hundred thousand years later . . .
Владелец сэкономил на проволоке. Нужно было для такого маленького объекта ставить обычную сплошную сетку. А не редкие провода. Тогда медведь не сможет пролезть. Провода ставят для огромных полей, чтобы не тратить сетку.
Это провода под напряжением.
Bear: WTF?! Is this fence made out of hornets?
I wonder if an obnoxious smell combined with the shock would help condition the bears to smell scent associated with shock and not return or re-attempt to get the honey? Perhaps as your description says, with many migrant bears visiting that would not be useful in that scenario. The comment concerning a metal pole made previously seems promising an approach (combined or alternative) to note. Thank you for the interesting behavioural footage.
You are welcome. Glad you liked it. Metal poles and elevated hives wouldn't work. I have to routinely check hives, moving frames and honey supers. Not to mention moving 40 lbs. honey supers to collect honey from at the end of the season.
An obnoxious smell...an obnoxious smell...hmmmm...I guess you could strap Amy Schumer to one of the posts. Would that be considered animal cruelty or human cruelty? Or just...necessity is the mother of inventions?
Looking for pic-a-nic baskets.
They just have to grin and bear it. 🐻
Put the wires closer together so when they try and go underneath it really zaps them and turn the power up
You know they can smell the electric fence yet have to touch it hahahahaha. Just like a little kid when you tell them the pan is hot, they don't truly know what you mean until they touch it.
Poor things. They couldn’t bare the shock.
If you don't see smoke from fur burning it isn't hot enough. Plus I'd recommend building an actual cattle fence with corner posts capable of keeping 2,000 pound cattle out. String it with high tensile strength barbed wire. The glass insulators from old power lines are the best. If you can get your hands on Doc Brown's Flux Capacitor that will be just about right.
Electric fences are great as a piece of a combined approach. Alone, they are inconsistent and don't stop determined intruders. I had a 30-pound goat that would climb the best electric fence I could source locally. Meanwhile the neighbor dogs trying to get in to eat the goats would get zapped once and their friends didn't even try the same thing.
Junk fence chargers. It needs a higher frequency so the bursts are faster with less gaps in them. If it's inconsistent, you have shorts. Probably grass touching the bottom line.
@@RonnieStanley-tc6vi Constantly in spring. Later with the lack of rain that stopped being a major issue, but (assumption here) deer would jump my fence and drag the conducting wires into contact, and I'd have have to unwrap the wires. I also had a couple of Tennessee goats (non fainting) who avoided it because their long ears would get zapped. But not the pygmy goat. She would react to the zaps and move her climb ascent. I had to set out game cams to see how she would do it. Sweetest little pet ever, but had this insane motivation to eat the shrubs and grass on the other side of the fence, never mind she had hay, corn, fruits and vegetables, and fresh clean water on the side she started on. Strongly believe I had the issues you said, plus I think the carrying wire wasn't right/big enough, and my grounding rod was insufficient. Lotta rock.
I build my own using a voltage multiplier and a pulse rated capacitor it blows holes in fingertips and the bottom of feet while giving a full body spasm. I could make a version that would cause a seizure with head contact.
Boo Boo is that you?
I feel sad that the bears are hungry, but I am still laughing. One time as kids, we thought if we held hands and touched the fence only one person would feel the shock, so we tried, and all of us got shocked, so naive and funny. We didn't get hurt really, must a little shock, but we all screamed! This is a great set up, and I like bees, so I am glad they survived!
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I also feel sad that I am hungry. It happens every day.
The bears are being lazy..looking for a good easy snack
@@hobsonbeeman7529 Read the description on the video. They were facing severe food source shortages that year, which drove them to seek out other options. Not lazy, just trying to survive.
Bears by their very nature are lazy, always looking for a handout. They remind me of democrats.
That is a ton of bears!!! Wow!!!
A 100watt electric fence unit. Well earthed with a steel bowl of milk on a wet towel
Some bears are like humans, never learn... 😂
They should also put barb wire fencing around now that would also keep them away
Near me, the hives are relying on solar power and a car battery. But what the bear does is climb a tree and jump in the enclosure, rip open a few hives then just scoots under the wire. Told the bee guy about it but he didn’t care, he was from Wisconsin and that was two states away. Bears are just a cost of business. 😂
Increase the voltage
That must be primo honey for real
Yogi's reaction is shocking!
I think If I had that level of problem, I would add a second electric fence around the first. have just enough space between the 2 that they would be touching one as son as the other is off them.
Honey 🍯 is in the boxes?
Either that's one or two DETERMINED bears of this person definitely has a bear problem!! lol
Owner of a hungry heart... Yeoh!!!! Zappity zap zap zap zap zapit... These bears have a honey habit...
I built my own setup to keep "wildlife" from stealing my gate motor and it has way more kickythan this. Voltage gets the pain in but amps make the pain
lol they want that honey so bad though, this is funny :D
Bears said hey im came here to hump day thing but dang got shocked.
Needs more wire apparently
What exactly is the new information from the beginning of last week again?
I don't understand your point. It's shocking them, yet they still go in there.
Reminds me of shoplifters...it seems that this could work for specific items.
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Bears try to jump my privacy fence to get at chickens and rabbits. I ran two strands of wire at the top of it. One hot and one ground. That way when their paws arent grounded, they stilll get shocked. I have a few attempts on video. They get part way over and cant get down fast enough.
Risk. Reward .Shoking.
It might be too costly or too permanent but could you elevate the beehives on a platform on a strong metal pole accessable only by ladder?they cant climb a steel tube can they?
Thanks for your interest. It was a wild season, for sure. No they can't climb metal poles. Metal poles and elevated hives wouldn't work. I have to routinely check hives, moving frames and honey supers. Not to mention moving 40 lbs. honey supers to collect honey from at the end of the season.
I think I'll get one of those for my refrigerator to keep my wife from raiding it at night. Poor thing is up to almost 300 lbs now
Man they really want those bees lol.
Honey*
Bear's nose can smell honey even inside the beehive and they go nuts for it. They even try to challenge the electric fence.
The smell of honey may attract them but, they really want the protein of the larva and bees. This is also true of the skunks and raccoons.
i would have build a giant 3ft bee to pop out of that hive with a motion sensor LOLOL
Them thangs big and fast af that’s scary
Not nearlyy enough juice on that fence.
The bears did get to the boxes.
Reminds me of when i put sewing needles into electrical outlet...
How many volts? I have a bear that keeps messing up my deer feeders
Thanks for your interest. I use a Gallagher M120 energizer which delivers 10,000 volts DC at about 200 mA, 150 mS each second. Total length of all the 14 g wire is about 100 meters. I think it comes out to about 1 joule. I now use six hot and two neutral wires which can deliver the greatest shock. Most of the shocks they received in the video were from them grounding out to the earth (probably about 8000 volts) which was still very effective. The problems I've had were due to the wire not being tense enough. Bears, with their thick coats, are well insulated against shocks if they don't have to push firmly against the wires. The fence can't mechanically keep them out, just needs to be tough enough to stand their efforts to push through. Use solid wood corner posts. Some people will bait their fence with sardines on a wire to educate the bears at the start. Understand I don't like hurting them, especially the cubs of this year. I just wanted to keep them from my bees. Update: bears still come around but now they essentially ignore my apiary. Good luck.
I have heard you can use solar powered fence charger, isolate the feet of the deer feeder for a couple feet with pvc pipe. One ground rod and beer will move on to the next property.
That's exactly how I raided the cookie jar when I was a boy 50 years ago.....
Christmas decorations that make sound or jump scare Halloween decorations that go off from movement
You got to keep the spaces tight on the lower sections or bears WILL do this !
I don't know if that's persistence or just slow learners?😅
Las protecciones electricas caen ji ji ji como todo como todo
They dont like the electric fence but will put up with a swarm of angry bees? Seems logical
So why is not the fence completely around the hives so they can't get in at all
9 acre farm in the mountains of Oregon. A cougar took out one neighbor's 4 alpacas, another neighbor's sheep. The bears eat their orchard fruit and bees/honey. I have 2 huge shepherds and a 160 lb cane corso, and a ridiculous little old man Frenchy who thinks he's as big as the others. He's mad he has to stay in at night while his huge protective brothers roam on patrol. Bear, wolves, coyotes, cougar, man, will NOT set foot on my property! I sleep very well at night between the movement cameras, dogs, goose, donkey, and my own personal Equalizers! 😂😊