I havent had them chew on my well pipes yet (I have 2 wells) but they get
into everything else. Mostly squirrels and chipmunks (ground squirrels to
y'all country)
The ONLY thing that works is lead poisoning as in a 22 or air rifle. You
cant poison chipmunks with anything over the counter and as soon as you kill
a pack off others move in so its a constant battle. I kill 25-35 a year and
a neighbor does about the same. We both get about 10 squirrels.
All cables from the towers are elevated 12' above ground and supported from
1/4" EHS; RF cables are all CATV hardline and a few Andrew ones. It looks
like Radio Pelham according to a neighbor.
I had to go to 1/2" hardline for the Beverages since those all run on the
ground to a relay box. One run back to the house that joins the bundle from
one of the towers. I lost several runs of flooded RG-6 and RG-11 before the
switch.
The critter damage is now limited to the garages and other outbuildings in
the warm months; if I thin the population way down there is no winter
problem. Lots of mouse poison has also eliminated a lot of problems.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Hearn" <dhearn@air-pipe.com>
To: "Craig Clark" <jcclark@wildblue.net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] CRITTERS AND CABLES
> My water comes from a deep drilled well. The sprinkler system is supplied
> through a black plastic tubing about an inch in diameter tapped into the
> well casing at about 3 feet depth. Recently a large pool of water appeared
> about 6 ft from the well casing. Sure enough, a gopher had chewed through
> the tubing. This has happened only once in 8 years.
> I temporarily laid a piece of RG213 on the ground to try out a 6 meter
> yagi. It was chewed by gophers in less than a month.
> They are tough little critters and very smart. Trapping or poisoning them
> is
> very difficult.
> 73, Dan, N5AR
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Craig Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:57 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] CRITTERS AND CABLES
>
>
> For those of us living in areas with chewing critters, I'm not sure
> there is much you can do. It has been opined that it could be due to
> salts from manufacture or handling that the animals are attracted to
> the cable but that is not the issue. In speaking to one of the
> plastic engineers, he made an analogy why would a horse chew a wood
> railing when there is lush grass near by? Becuz they are stupid
> animals I asked. Bingo he said.
>
> The best way to protect your cable run is to put it in to conduit.
> One customer bought hundreds of feet of gray plastic conduit to run
> his 213 as the critters in his neighborhood had already eaten several
> runs of cable.
>
> Application of moth balls might help as possibly would a pepper solution.
>
> Over my 30 years in the woods of NH, I have lost several runs of coax
> and control lines and have chalked it up to the cost of doing
> business. I do have runs of flooded LMR600 and RG6 and they have done
> well for me.
>
> I also had a break from my son and his chain saw when he was cutting
> cord wood. Not much I could do about him.
>
> Largest direct burial rotor cable we sell is 14/18 which should work
> on pretty long runs.
>
>
>
>
>
> 73, Craig Clark, K1QX
>
>
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