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Re: [TowerTalk] Re: using trees to anchor wire antennas / TheCrossbowInc

To: <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re: using trees to anchor wire antennas / TheCrossbowIncident
From: "Richard M. Gillingham" <rmoodyg@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:31:12 -0400
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Oh!  To have the acreage to NEED a crossbow...  (sigh)

Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re: using trees to anchor wire antennas /
TheCrossbow Incident


> I also have used crossbows to loft arrows trailing monofilament, which
> then pulled twine and then pulled rope....
>
> One time, the trees near our biggest tower were so thick we could not
> pull a line up through them. I climbed the tower and had my father W1CW
>   send up the cross bow... the spool of monofilament was attached to a
> board which he then in turn attached to a 2 x 4 that had several common
> nails partially driven in that were bent with the heads rolled over so
> that they in turn hooked onto a horizontal rung of the tower, thus
> freeing up my hands for the cross bow...
>
> It took two shots - the first one broke the monofilament about 50 feet
> out and that arrow was LONG gone into the distant field.  All the while
>   I was wondering if a neighbor was videotaping me up at 100 feet
> shooting a cross bow to the northwest... seeing as I was not taken away
> in a straight jacket I guess not :-)
>
> Heah... it worked... and the dipole was resurrected... Dad later had the
> tree guys come out and they "enhanced" [can you say chain saw or stump
> grinder?] the path between the two towers that supported that wire :-)
>
> Inexpensive crossbows which are more than adequate for the accuracy
> needed in this type of operation can be had at all the local weekend
> flea markets here in FL... cheap, too!
>
> Jim, K4OJ
>
>
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