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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