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Re: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree

To: Jon Zaimes <jz73@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree
From: Edward Mccann via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Edward Mccann <edwmccann@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:15:57 -0700
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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
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 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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