Agrifence Standard Plus Electric Fence Gate Handle – Petrol Green

Agrifence Standard Plus Gate Handle – Petrol Green

Colour on a gate handle is not decoration. A handle you can pick out at twenty paces is a handle you reach for rather than grope for, and the petrol green body stands away from both grass and timber in a way black does not. Underneath it is Agrifence's Standard Plus: an insulated handle connection with an internal extension spring to hold tension on the line.

The spring does the work that keeps a gateway usable through a season. It draws the gap closed as the handle hooks on, so the conductor sits taut instead of drooping into the mud, and it absorbs the slack that builds up from being opened twice a day every day.

Performance & Benefits

• Insulated handle connection for passing through a live fence line.
• Internal extension spring maintains tension on the gate conductor.
• Petrol green body, easy to locate against grass and timber.
• Holds the gate line clear of the ground between openings.
• Same fitting as the black, purple and pink handles, so a yard can colour-code gateways.
• Priced as an everyday consumable rather than a heavy-duty fitting.

Suitable For

• Gateways used several times a day.
• Horses, ponies, cattle and sheep.
• Yards colour-coding gateways so staff and liveries find the right one.
• Temporary access points on rotational grazing.
• Not the handle for a very wide or heavily used gate — Agrifence's Super Gate Handle is the larger, more heavily insulated option.

How to Use

• Anchor one end at the post and hook the handle across from the opposite side.
• Hold the insulated body only when hooking on or unhooking.
• Ease the spring back rather than letting the handle go under load.
• Stand to one side as the line recoils after unhooking.
• Turn the energiser off before fitting or moving the gateway.

Specification

• Colour described in store as petrol green.
• Insulated handle with an internal extension spring.
• Barcode 4018653449615, which Agrifence list as their Standard Plus Gate Handle Blue, product code H6669. Petrol green is a retail description of the same handle; Agrifence's own colour name for it is blue.
• Agrifence make the Standard Plus in pink, purple, blue and black.
• Agrifence publish no length, material or maximum conductor width for this handle, so none is stated here.

Care & Caution

• Take hold of the insulated body only — the hook and the conductor beyond it are live.
• The spring is under tension when the gate is made up; release it in a controlled way rather than letting go.
• Isolate the energiser before working on the gateway or on the line either side.
• Retire the handle if the plastic cracks or the insulation perishes.
• Make sure anyone else using the gateway knows to hold the handle and nothing else.