And after you get it out, go to Home Depot, spend $12 on a poly-clad bicycle
cablelock long enough to wrap around the tree branch or trunk, secure the two
eyes with a stainless carabiner or threaded shackle (next aisle over) and run
several continuos black antenna ropes thru the shackle, as in sail halyards.
Pick one, half way tie in a harkens marine pulley ($15 on Amazon), run your
wire through, and haul away!
Ed McCann
AG6CX
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> On Oct 18, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Jon Zaimes <jz73@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Hire a tree climber to remove and re-install, using a rope with lower
> breaking strength than the wire. Then if it gets snagged again the rope
> should break not the wire if you pull on it. Also could put rope in bent
> conduit where it goes across crotch of limb so tree doesn't grow into the
> rope. Or have climber install marine-grade pulley there on an eye screw and
> use continuous loop of heavier rope to support wire (so if wire breaks you
> can still retrieve rope).
>
> 73/Jon
>
> Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K
>
> Tower climber for hire
>
> http://www.aa1k.us/
>
> Cell: 302-632-2353
>
>
>
> Reviews of AA1K tower work on eham website:
> http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12922
>
>
>
> Hug your favorite tower every day, and always stay connected to it.
>
>
>
>
>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M <kq2m@kq2m.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not an option for me Keith – the only access to the tree is through the
>> septic field – so I can’t use a bucket truck or other vehicle.
>>
>> Bob, KQ2M
>>
>> From: Keith Dutson
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:07 PM
>> To: Tower Talk
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree
>>
>> Rent a bucket truck, one like the tree trimming people use?
>>
>> Keith NM5G
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob
>> Shohet, KQ2M
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:59 PM
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree
>>
>> I have one element of my 80 M 4-square stuck in a tree and I can’t get it
>> down even with trying a variety of methods. I believe that the element is
>> not actually stuck but rather the 3/16” rope that it is attached to is
>> caught in the notch of a branch and the branch may have grown around it and
>> trapped it within.
>>
>> I could try to pull it out with extreme force but I fear that the element
>> would break and then leave a dangling piece of wire of indeterminate length
>> that could couple to one of the elements and affect the pattern and/or
>> tangle with the replacement element.
>>
>> Does any one have any ideas of what else I might try to get the element out
>> whole?
>>
>> Tnx & 73
>>
>> Bob KQ2M
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