![Evil or Very Mad :evil:](./images/smilies/icon_evil.gif)
My trees on monkey poles and stands are fine but my benches are close enough to a fence that they can access them. Last night they even ate all the new growth off a pingii juniper which was only just recovering from the last time they did it!
![Mad :x](./images/smilies/icon_mad.gif)
I have a lot of young deciduous trees about to burst into new fresh growth so I'm planning on setting up an electric barrier fence to protect the benches. I have a 240v mains electric fence energiser which I'll put on a timer to only come on at night. The energiser is designed for larger livestock so I might put a resistor in line on the hot wire to knock the voltage back a little - I want to scare them off not stun them into falling off the fence! Unfortunately because the possums probably wont be grounded(walking along a wooden fence) I'll probably have to run at least 2 wires(live and earth) for it to be effective.
Has anyone else done this before? I'll post back with how it goes.