Lean Hotwire: The Simple Guide to Start Using Hotwire on Your Ranch or Farm

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Managed grazing…with hotwire!

Welcome to Lean Hotwire!

This is a nuts-and-bolts course to help you start using electric fence to manage livestock on your farm or ranch. It includes everything we wish someone had told us about electric fence when we first started using it. Our goal with this course is to spare you a lot of expense, wasted time, and R-rated language!

What you’ll learn in this course:

Where to buy materials and which materials to buy (how not to waste your money on junk)
Basic principles of how electric fence works!
How to ground your fence without all the fancy gizmos and grounding rods
Knots to use for seamless, flexible hotwire setup and takedown
Designing an ideal pasture that animals will flow well through and graze evenly
How to set up hotwire around tanks and water sources, including live water
Training animals to electric fence
Specialty information for pigs, sheep, and horses (the course is primarily focused on cattle, but it will prepare you to use hotwire with any of these animals)
…and lots more, packed into content searchable within the video & broken down by subject (watch what you need, skip what you don’t, and easily find information again for a refresh).

This course is meant for you if…

You are a farmer, homesteader, or rancher and would like to start using electric fence to manage animals
You have cattle , horses, pigs, or sheep and you’d like to use electric fence as a tool
It doesn’t matter how many acres you’ve got! This method works if you’ve got 5 acres or 5,000
It doesn’t matter how many animals you’ve got! This works for 1 horse or 1,000 head of cattle.
You would like to get started with low startup costs

What you won’t learn in this course:

You won’t learn how to use all the fanciest gizmos and tech. We’re all about SIMPLE hotwire with low inputs and low startup costs
You won’t learn a ton about regenerative grazing management. Managing grazing is the goal of electric fence, but that’s not focus of this course. This course is designed to put the nuts and bolts “tool” of electric fence in your toolbox. We have a regenerative grazing course in the works that will give you the info on how we use hotwire to manage our grazing to improve soil health & animal weight gains, but in this hotwire course we are solely focusing on the “how” of electric fence, not the application.

Here’s exactly what’s included in the course:

Over 2 hours of video content on every detail of how our electric fence system works. These videos are designed to save you lots of money, headaches, cussing, escaped animals, and tangled wire strewn across your property!
A 35-page PDF guidebook summarizing everything in this course, including materials, chargers, knots, water setups, designing pastures that work, strategies for rocky or variable ground, grounding your fence, training animals to hotwire, and more.
This course will give you everything we’ve learned from 30+ years of trial and error with electric fence. It’s everything we wish we knew, and it’ll save you a lot of trial and error.

We’ll give you a no-questions-asked refund if you aren’t happy!

We’re confident that you will receive value from this course. If you complete the course and you feel you haven’t received the value you paid for it, just shoot us an email or Instagram message and we are happy to provide you with a full refund.

Included in this course:

a 35-page PDF guidebook on everything electric fence
Over 2 hours of video with Glenn from Alderspring Ranch
A short "where to buy" guidebook with links to specific materials. We'll update this guidebook if certain products are no longer offered. We aren't paid to recommend any specific products or brands, this guidebook is simply there to give you a starting place to shop for what you'll need!