[TowerTalk] slingshot safety

[Al Williams]

On my new QTH, I hired and paid exactly $100 for a semi-retired logger to
put loops around two trees at about the 100' level.  Be careful with pulleys
as they can get all tangled up and become useless.  I used
a 2" ring on the loop going around the tree/limb.  The rope around the ring
isnt as easy as a pulley to pull rope through though.  Sometimes I pull a
pulley up to the ring and that way can get a tangled pulley back
down.  Dont skimp on the rope size.  I find that a stiff 1/4" poly(?) is far
less likely to tangle in the limbs than 1/8" or so nylon.  Also be sure to
keep slack out of the rope as the wind can wind limbs around the rope or
vice-versa.

I now have 8 acres so I dont have to worry about arrows and lead weights
falling on anybody--just worry about hitting seagulls and crows!!!!!

PS I'm all for metal towers and will soon go that route.

k7puc
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Kinyon - W7TS <w7ts@uswest.net>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, March 05, 2000 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] slingshot safety


>
>When you consider all the things that can and do go wrong,  what is the
>sense of saving a few bucks at the risk of life and limb.  Hire a
>professional tree trimmer to permanently mount a rope and pulley right
where
>you want it.  It will cost a lot less than paying for the neighbors kid
with
>an arrow or lead weight through his head.  It has always amazed be how hams
>will try to save a hundred bucks at the risk of losing hundreds of
thousands
>or worse.
>73,
>Ken W7TS
>
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>Kenneth E.  Kinyon
>34 Princeton Circle
>Longmont, CO 80503-2106
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>E-mail W7TS@uswest.net
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