[TowerTalk] Tree Services, Kevlar Line, Lightning Ground Wire (was: EZ-hang)

[Jason Creager]

On 12/13/2005 at 2:22 PM larryjspammenot at teleport.com wrote:

>I'd like to find one for about $60 - the last time I had a guy come over
>to hoist my rope up in my backyard fir tree, it cost me $175. That was
>about 7 or 8 years ago. I called around lots of tree places. Now I get
>quotes of around $250. Tell that $60 guy to come see me!

Holy mackeral!

I thought things were getting out of hand when the last "trabajdore" wanted
$30 EACH to climb, cut, and gather the limbs from my two 40' palm trees! (I
still haven't paid more than $50 for the whole job, though.) You might want
to look into that route. It would be even cheaper for me if I just wanted
them to climb the tree and not spend twenty minutes swinging a chainsaw in
the top of it.

KEVLAR LINE
We use black kevlar line at work to fly heavy, nylon "comets" across the
stage by dropping large weights a hundred feet or so. I think I will talk
'em out of a hunk of it and do some experimenting. The cool part about the
kevlar is you could probably saw through anything that got in the way
(including human flesh if the cord is flying).

LIGHTNING GROUND WIRE
I've been thinking about this for some time. Since I have two palm trees in
the front yard, I would like to turn one of them into a lightning rod since
they're higher than the top of my G5RV. What size wire should I use?
- Jason - KC0ERG
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