[TowerTalk] Need help stringing a half-sqare over trees

[Tom Osborne]

When putting the rope between the trees, just put a pulley out a little way 
from each tree.  Run some nylon twine through each pully in a big loop. 
When you get to both ends of the loop, just tie the wire to each piece of 
twine and pull the wire through the pulleys  GL
Tom W7WHY


> I've managed to place ropes in two tall trees (~75') about 150 feet
> apart.  I want to string a half square on pulleys between these
> trees, with a horizontal wire between the trees and then a vertical
> wire dropping at either end.  The lot is very heavily wooded, so the
> area between the trees is filled with other trees that are 10'-40'
> tall.
>
> My problem is this - how do I get the vertical wires out across the
> middle and drop them.  There is absolutely no access from the between
> the trees -- it is so heavily wooded that I can't even see the sun.
> The only access is a clearing at the base of one tree (it took a
> slingshot made of surgical tubing and 2x4's to get the ropes up, but
> that's another story).  Cutting the trees is not an option.
>
> Currently, the situation looks like this (the X's are trees, the
> other lines are ropes).
>