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Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Canada geese
From: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Hans Hammarquist <hanslg@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:46:07 -0500
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 Mark, I believe Patrick's suggestion stands out to be the best. I second that 
if the birds or whatever you have destroying your cable cannot chew through it 
they will leave it alone.


Good luck and tell us how it went.


Hans - N2JFS

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
To: Mark N2QT <n2qt@yahoo.com>; towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 8:29
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Canada geese

Mark, it seems to me you are taking two of the best possible steps, 
verification of who the enemy is via the trail cam and more robustly armoring 
the trouble spot. The camera will satisfy your curiosity and the armoring will 
offer real protection.I have a 200 gal round stock watering tank positioned 
adjacent to a well house.  It has an auto fill float valve and a 
thermostatically controlled heater in it. In summer I don't have the heater 
powered up and the cows ate the wires and chewed up the water hose. I repaired 
the damage and wrapped the trouble spot with 4 point barbed wire.  You can't 
buy barbed wire in short lengths (comes in large rolls) but if you could find a 
fence company or farmer/rancher with barbed wire fences you could probably get 
several feet for free or low cost. The 4 point is best and some of that will 
make a real deterrent to further damage.  Barbed wire is a much better 
deterrent than hardware cloth.An optional method of application of the barbed 
wire th
 at is easier on you to install is to encircle the area of interest with 
several straight pieces of barbed wire running parallel to the coax.  Use wire 
to make ties around the coax/barbed wire bundle. If you carefully remove the 
barbs from a foot long piece of barbed wire and separate the two wire strands 
the individual wires can be use to wrap around the bundle of coax and barbed 
wire.  I can't think of a critter of lesser stature than Godzilla that could 
gnaw through a coax protected this way.The cattle ate the wires of my first WX 
station even though they were in PVC conduit.  My second station is better 
protected.Best of luck to you whichever way you proceed.  I hope the trail cam 
identifies the culprit and it isn't some misguided miscreant.I got a good belly 
laugh re the fence them out suggestions, electric fence or otherwise, as from 
my personal observation I can assure you that geese are good fliers capable of 
clearing any fence, great wall of China, Trump's border wal
 l, etc.Patrick        
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