[TowerTalk] Animals Chewing the Ropes

[Chuck Lewis]

Hi, Bill,

Here are a couple of thoughts:
1. These guys might be after the saltiness from your hands after you handled
the ropes.
2. Pet stores sell a variety of products like "Bitter Lime" which are meant
for puppies who tend to chew nearly anything, and which taste bad to the
pups. These products will sometimes work to repel wildlife, if you spray the
stuff with it, but it tends to get washed off by rain.
3. You might try a salt lick placed at the edge of your property and away
from the antenna halyard, combined with a bad tasting spray like "Bitter
Lemon" on the rope. Sort of a "push-pull" approach.
Good Luck!

Chuck, N4NM

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Animals Chewing the Ropes


>
> 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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