[Towertalk] Guy Grip Question

[N9EN@VOYAGER.NET]

Not meaning to sound like a smart aleck, but I'd like to
see you try to saw through one of my 1/4" EHS guy wires
with your hack saw (by hand). You might get through one
wire but by the time you did make it all the way through it,
your hack saw blade would be junk.

When I first started using EHS guy wire, I found out the
hard way that a hack saw is basically useless for cutting
the stuff. On the other hand, a cut-off wheel mounted in
a small disc grinder (or even the disc grinder wheel itself)
will go through 1/4 EHS in about 10 seconds.

73 de Brad, N9EN @ Radio Free Roscoe (IL)...
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Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Guy Grip Question


> I think a pair of bolt cutters or hack saw would vandalize a guy wire
> a lot quicker than a screwdriver applied to a taut guy grip.
>
> BTW,  what is ICE ?  :-)
>
> Tom  N4KG   in  sunny  ALABAMA
>
> (OK, I've had ice...once every sunspot cycle...
> Guys on the mountains tell me about it too )
>
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:51:53 -0400 Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
> writes:
> >
> > >Stan wrote:
> >
> > >I specfically remember reading in the Official Rohn Book that
> > >when you use guy grips, you MUST always use end sleeves (NOT tie
> > wraps) with
> > >them.  They don't say why but if you can install a guy grip with
> > your hands
> > >and nothing more than a screw driver, then it stands to reason that
> > you (or
> > >any kid or vandal) can remove one the same way.  If any guy grips
> > are
> > >accessable from the ground, I would strongly recommend installing
> > end
> > >sleeves to discourage, or at least slow down, a vandal or an irrate
> > >neighbor.  See page HA101 in your Rohn Book for installation
> > procedure.
> >
> > Rohn isn't necessarily the last word on guy grips, of course, not
> > like
> > PLP.  However, I was told (with straight face, I think), that water
> > sliding
> > down guy wires and freezing inside the ends of guy grips could cause
> > them
> > to unravel gradually.  I drove what are locally called "ice sleeves"
> > on all
> > my upward-facing grips with a hammer and vise grips, and there
> > they've
> > stayed.  I didn't think about the vandalism case then, but am doubly
> > glad I
> > did it now.
> >
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