Re: [TowerTalk] galvanizing chrome moly

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Dutson" <kjdutson@earthlink.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] galvanizing chrome moly


> Interesting problem.  Often I find yellow jackets and/or red wasps flying
> around my tower, even at 150 feet.  However, they do not make nests anywhere
> I have seen, and I have never been stung.  Once, while working at the very
> top, a wasp lit on the thrust bearing just as I was about to loosen the
> bolts to raise the mast.  It just perched there and seemed to be daring me
> to put my hands near the bearing.  Since I was wearing leather gloves I just
> waved him away and went about my business.  He did not go very far, and
> eventually lit on the far side and watched me through the whole process.  A
> climber friend of mine said they are particularly attracted to galvanized
> steel towers.
>
> Keith NM5G
Wasn't there a brand of antennas called HORNET a few years back?
Could that have been the reason?



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Bill H. in Chicagoland


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