Turns out we have a jungle on the farm. We found that the electric fence was shorting and we headed out to find the problem. While fighting back the spring flush of brambles and grass that seem to grow purposefully to short out our fence, I visited a corner of the back pasture that I had never been to before. It turns out that two trees grew over the electric fence and this, combined with a tree that had fallen on it in the winter, meant that we had quite a bit of work to do.
Working around the poison ivy, we chipped away at the bark until we could snap the insulator that had once held the wire away from the tree. We then nailed in a board and new insulator, making sure to leave the nails out a bit so that we could adjust it in the coming years. Job well done, if I say so myself.
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