No water jugs and no bleach jugs, which can be pretty flimsy.
ANTIFREEZE jugs.
And available in black if you get certain brands.
Someone posted about not being enough weight to haul up coax. True,
but was only being used to pull up copper wire for a wire vertical out
in the woods, or either support point of an inverted L, which has no
coax to drag up in the air.
Also, if a pulley is supported in a tree, then having twelve pounds on
the branch is better than eighty. Especially if the wind gets going.
As to the weight blowing around in a human traffic area, this is not
the solution for a human traffic area.
Never had an antifreeze jug decompose, split (as long as not full to
top), or leak. Always outlasted the antennas, which have come down for
various reasons: moving, boredom, falling trees, evaporation caused by
lightning, the usual cast of characters.
73, y'all.
Guy, K2AV
Apex, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
To: "Towertalk Reflector" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:15 AM
Subject: [Towertalk] Re: Counterweights for wire verticals
The most memorable counterweight I've ever seen was a large filament
transformer - gotta do something with them, I guess...
On the subject of water and bleach jugs - I've found that these don't
do well out in the sun for more than a couple seasons. They'll
eventually fail catastrophically, all the ballast falls out, the rope
flies up, and the antenna falls down, usually at the worst possible
time.
You'd do well to either use UV resistant buckets or jugs (not that I
know where you're going to get them), replace them regularly, or have
a slack piece of tie rope acting to keep the load bearing rope from
disappearing rapidly in the vertical direction when the inevitable
happens. Maybe you could also paint the jug black to protect it.
Or maybe you could just use a filament transformer.
73, Ward N0AX
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