For what it may be worth...
Home Depot, Gardening Department... (Lowes may have these also)
Commercial Grade Fabric & Garden Staples
Attaches commercial grade fabric & turf to soil
75 staples per box - Cost, about $3 or so...
Dimensions:
Iron Wire, 3/32 diameter
Length = 5 inches nominal (for turf)
Width at top: 1-1/4 nominal
No fuss, no muss... Just take 'em outta da box and PUSH...with a block of
2x4 wood
73, Larry - W1GOR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Radial staples
>I went the coat hanger route at first too. I spent about 2 or 3 hours
> cutting and bending to make around 100 of them which I thought would be
> plenty. I used them all up in about 20 minutes. At that point it dawned
> on me that I should look around for something manufactured. I tried a few
> things and finally hit on big fence staples I found in a farmer's co-op.
> The "wire" to make them is about as big around as a pencil. each one is
> about 1 inch wide and the prongs are 2 or 3 inches long and sharpened. I
> had doubts about the prongs being long enough but tested them and they
> hammered right down into the ground and stayed put. Cost was
> $0.90/pound.
> they are supposed to be used to hold barb wire to wood fence posts. I
> fill a steel bucket with them and walk around nailing down any wire that i
> see up off the ground when I add radials. didn't know about the sod
> staples. I'll give them a try. The fence staples work okay for me
> though
> and if you can't find anything else and are in farm country go to a supply
> store and see if they have them. They won't be in Lowe's or any kind of
> homeowner place. BTW, if you use solid wire instead of stranded, it
> stays
> down a lot better--the stranded stuff wants to coil up all the time.
> don't
> waste ur money on good copper antenna wire for this, save that for in the
> air antennas--for radials cheap(er) solid no. 14 insulated copper is fine.
>
> rob/k5uj
>
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