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keeping wire antennas up
"Bob" wrote in message -Free... "Brian Kelly" wrote in message ... On Jan 18, 3:36 pm, "Juan M." wrote: A problem seeking a solution. I live in a wooded area of the Pacific Northwest with dozens of fir trees of 100 ft or more in height that make wonderful supports for high dipoles and other wire antennas. These particular trees have very few limbs at anything below the 60 ft level so using a crossbow or slingshot for installation is not practical. I have been forced to employ a professional tree climber to install the eyebolts and halyards. Using this system, the antennas can be raised and lowered for maintenance or modification. This system works fine until our winter storms kick in. Often, during those storms, a tree will lose a limb or two and take the antenna down with it. I am then left with a halyard tied to an insulator 50 ft or more above the ground with no way to get the insulator back down short of hiring another costly climber. Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? Install continuous loops through all your pulleys rather than "halyards". Hauling one side of the loop hoists the insulator and hauling the other side of the loop brings it back down to where you can work on it. Regardless of the condition or fates of wires suspended between pulleys. An aside you might check out: Really nice pulleys: http://www.harkenstore.com/uniface.urd/SCCYSPW1 w3rv Juan you see, they luring you to buy expensive stuff, don't buy! be smart! Art is right! same gang .. great pulley! for all your antennas... http://cgi.ebay.com/HUGE-VINTAGE-PUL...QQcmdZViewItem |
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keeping wire antennas up
Bob wrote:
... great pulley! for all your antennas... http://cgi.ebay.com/HUGE-VINTAGE-PUL...QQcmdZViewItem [busting a gut here!] Yep, a very sturdy skyhook! LOL, JS |
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