Mild electric shock in the shower
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Comments (7)sam89- Sounds like you fixed your problem. Your bamboo should recover in a few months. When it does send out runners -- probably not for at least a year or two -- a 7" (deep?) ditch won't be enough. You probably want to go at least 18". If you don't put a barrier in the ditch, you can simply fill it in with something soft like sand or bark, and then just use the pick end of a pickaxe to probe for runners. In your temperate climate, this is probably something you should do every 2 months. When you find strays, cut them off with a sharp shovel or pruner. Chopping them off usually kills anything beyond the cut point. However, it's best to extract them from the ground because, if they make it across the ditch and into the soil they may just have enough residual energy to get established and start a new plant where you may not want it....See Morecorrection/shock collar
Comments (32)A remote collar wouldn't work unless you intend to always be watching her when she is out running. The point of the Invisible Fence is your dog is ALWAYS corrected when going out of bounds, not sometimes when you happen to watch her, but ALWAYS. Dogs learn by consistent training. If she crosses the boundary and you are not watching, therefore she gets no correction, she will not learn to not cross the boundary, just not to cross the boundary when you are watching her. In other words, she will learn to sneak out of bounds. With the Invisible Fence, she will always get corrected when she approaches the boundary, reinforcing what she is supposed to do- stay within the boundary. My Invisible Fence system has an automatic 12 hour battery backup, so if the power is off, the system is still up and running for 12 hours. The mistake most people make is putting the Invisible Fence collar on the dog and expecting it to know what to do (and what it is doing wrong) when it gets shocked. That is NOT the case- you have to train the dog to the boundary. This means working with the dog, showing it the boundary, giving it a command about what to do when the boundary is approached, and rewarding it for following directions. I imagine that training a dog to learn the boundary of a 60 acre lot takes a lot more time than my small city lot. The dog has to learn where the boundaries are before you can expect it to stay within them. I know many dogs who are simply extremely well boundary-trained and never stray off property even without Invisible Fence systems etc. The Invisible Fence is just for training reinforcement, not as a substitute for training. Putting an Invisible Fence around a 60 acre lot will be quite expensive too. I have Huskies, who are prone to running away and to chasing critters, and they are very well trained on the Invisible Fence. Honestly, I think Tatyana and Anastasia got shocked twice each, EVER, even though we moved. There is no fear involved in Invisible Fence training- they approach the boundary and get rewarded for staying within it. If the collar beeps at them, they immediately go to their safe area (the porch). All I had to do was put the flags back up in our new house, and the Huskies knew where the boundaries were and what to do. Since I have both an Invisible Fence and a remote shock collar, I can probably be of great assistance if you have any specific questions about either system. Both systems have their place, but you have to use them correctly. Neither is a substitute for training, which takes time and effort, despite how easy the respective companies will make it seem with their products. I wish my dogs had 60 acres to run around on. The girls would love it....See Moreshocking (as in 10 volts) deck screws
Comments (8)Birgit, Every year we hear of folks being electrocuted when they try to get out of the water on swimming docks. Now I know this isn't the same thing you are talking about, but I can assure you the results are the same. Just so you know, I am talking about death, not a shock... Recently, I heard of a lady who was getting out of her hot-tub and was electrocuted. Again, I'm talking death, not shocked. She stepped out, one foot on the wet ground and the other in the tub. Essentially she completed the circuit. I suggest you get a different electrician immediately. If he cannot run your problem down, do not allow anyone in that hot-tub. The amount of current it takes to kill a human-being is actually very little, waayyy less than one amp. I can assure you that those little shocks could be much worse, especially if you were on the ground and not on a deck. The reason the shock is mild is because the deck is a poor conductor of electricity. Please make sure you get another opinion. I would even go as far as to call your electric provider. They may not come out but I can assure you that they will have a compentant recommendation for who to call. I would be very concerned about any electrician telling me that "these things just happen". I'm sorry to post such a long response but this is truly a very serious problem. I plugged my camper into a recepticle on a garage and my daughter recieved a mild tingle. I got my multimeter and drove the probe into the dirt then took a reading... 110 volts. The reason it was a tingle was because she was standing on dry concrete. A little investigation showed a broken ground on the garage GFCI circuit. We traced the circuit and sure enough the ground wasn't hooked up. The GFCI wouldn't work because it was miswired. Please look into getting a circuit tester and see if the GFCI is wired correctly. These are at Lowes for less than $20. Good Luck Saftgeek...See More'Shocking' question
Comments (3)Thanks so much for the responses! I'll put in a call to the power company. Is this something to do with the power coming into the residence, or is it something from the main panel leading out? Hope that makes sense. Trying to figure out if this is something I caused, and am responsible financially for, or if it is on the power company's end. Want to prepare myself if its to be another financial endeavor! Thanks, Tracy...See Morebus_driver
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