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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3232216" data-attributes="member: 7900">When I was a youngster, my grandfather always used 12V fence chargers, so I learned to check a fence for "hot" by grabbing the wire and then sticking a finger or two into the ground or grabbing a plant.  Went to work for the wife's dad and didn't think that they used 120 volt chargers.  Next trip into town, I bought one of those fence testers.For the really stubborn critters (and bulls), they had an old neon sign transformer that they could hook up to a fence.  Even with pieces of rubber inner-tube between the insulator and the metal fence post, one could still get a spark going through.  We quit using that after the spark got a piece of that rubber inner-tube burning and started a fire in the stubble.Oh, and I never tested that one.</blockquote>