[TowerTalk] Animals Chewing the Ropes

[K3SV@aol.com]

The other morning I found one of my vertical support ropes had been chewed 
through, by either a deer, groundhog, fox or possum.  The vertical array is 
near a corn field that doesn't get cut until November.  There are a number of 
deer in this field, but I've also seen fox and the other varmits.

Does anyone have a suggestion for something I could put on the dacron ropes?  
I was thinking of using low guage stainless cable for the first five or six 
feet, but then I wondered if that was a good idea, thinking that if they got 
tangled in the cable I would have a real mess with antennas coming down.  tnx 
es 73 de Bill

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