After losing a few of my roof-mounted vertical's radials to ice and
falling branches, I installed weights on the support ropes. To find the
minimum necessary weight (and lacking that type of scale), I tied an
empty gallon milk jug to the end of the support rope, slowly poured
water in until the radial reached the desired tautness, and weighed the
jug. The long radials took only 4 lbs; shorter ones 3. Home Depot had
two styles of brick-shaped paving stones weighing a little over 4 and 3
lbs respectively... so they're now tied on the end of my support ropes,
which simply run down tree trunks using screw eyes.
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-- John K3GHH
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