On Jan 29, 2018, at 10:21 AM, jimlux wrote:
On 1/29/18 7:04 AM, Dick Blumenstein wrote:
> One slight mod on Patrick's feedback...
> Instead of a rope or stout cable, I would use polyester mule tape (maybe
> about 1/2" to 3/4" wide) attached to the end of your old cables, so when your
> old cables have been pulled through, you can then attach the end of that to
> pull the new cables in, while allowing additional mule tape in parallel to
> the new cables to be pulled in, too.
And oddly, mule tape seems to be EAR99 (subject to Dept of Commerce export
rules, but not specifically controlled) - So if you're shipping mule tape to
some places, it has to be a for a permitted use (no using it to support
developmental nuclear weapons in North Korea, for instance)
I think I read, it is made with kevlar fiber.
A crew left a few hundred feet of the 1/4" stuff in a trash barrel after
pulling wire up an eight story office building.
It is marked 1500 pound test. I've used to it pull a truck out of a ditch.
A hundred feet "figure eight" wrapped over your thumb and pinky is about the
size of a baseball.
Attach one end to post, other to new dog. Rabbit goes by, dog stops at 100.01
feet.
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