[TowerTalk] Securing cables to trees

[Jim Berry]

Hello Dennis,

What I would do is hang some kind of "messenger" down the tree. Say a piece
of nylon/rayon rope of your choice.  Drive a stake into the ground and tie
that messenger off to it.  Run all your wires down that messenger rope, or
whatever, and hold your cables in place with cable ties.  You can keep this
creation from flopping in the breeze by tying the whole affair to tree every
20 feet or so.

73 Jim K7SLI

> I have a 70 foot length of RG8, and an RG58 sized switch control cable,
> that I need to dress and secure to a tree trunk. The intent is to prevent
> the cables from blowing in the wind, while providing some measure
> of strain
> relief. I have used a double-nail clamp arrangement in the past,
> but as the
> clamp was made of plastic, the life was only a year or two. Ideally, the
> common U shaped metal fasteners used to secure house electrical wiring
> would be used, but the length of the nail portion is insufficient to go
> through thick bark and into the wood.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks
> Dennis, K7FL
>
>


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