Who let the dogs out

That planning alone doesn’t yield best results was something that I had learnt quite the hard way in the corporate world . Therefore to not expect such a thing on my entrepreneurial venture would have been foolhardy to say the least. But I hadn’t expected it to come so soon!

My external structure for the poly house was ready; work had started on the work to be done in the internal section of the polyhouse.

But unfortunately, we had a new problem on hand.

We have few wild dogs around the farm that have had a history of creating trouble. Anticipating this, I had planned an electric fencing for the polyhouse. But with a lot of material movement expected during the polyhouse installation, I had only put the foundation for the supports and the fencing was scheduled for a later date.

With the plastic structure in place, the dogs found an easy target. They did not stop at just rolling in the soil. They forced their way into the structure by tearing off the plastic at 2 places on the first day.

I was disappointed to see that when I visited the farm the next day. Assuming that the dogs are intelligent, I thought they would use this as the path to enter the polyhouse on subsequent day till I take care of the fencing part.Guess that was asking too much out of them!. I was not too worried about the dogs at that point since there were bigger issues to tackle then.

However to my surprise, the next day, the dogs tore off the plastic at 2 more places. This was enough to trigger a “war-like-crisis” situation. I quickly reached out to the vendor who had to complete the  wiring work. However it took 2 more days before the guys could come over and fit the fencing wire. Till then the dogs inflicted further damage. In all the dogs had damaged the plastic at 7 places.

It surely was a bit of a setback  and frankly I didn’t know how to fix the damn thing. I was already delayed on the sowing season and didn’t want such irritants to crop up. It needed some quick thinking on my part. 

With some inputs from experts, the problem was ironed out…literally. We used a clothing iron to stick together plastic sheet pieces, covering the damaged sections.

The fence that I have now put around the polyhouse is a solar powered electric fence. The details are fascinating so here goes

• The Security Fence System produces a high voltage in the range of 6.0 KV to 9.9KV to deter, detect and deny physical intrusion by giving the intruder a short, sharp and painful shock.
• The Energizer will be able to check the fence around 50 times a minute and the instant the pulsated wires are cut or tampered, a built-in-alarm will immediately alert the monitoring personnel and the seucrity authorities.
• External Audio Alarm will be activated if anyone touches/ breaks the fence.
• Solar PV Module will charge the Lead Acid Battery. For handling the issue of lack of sun in rainy season, Auxiliary supply of 230V AC is also provided.

Post the installation of the fence, the dogs have tried to intrude but they have been unsuccessful.  Mission accomplished.. Phew!