[TowerTalk] Radial Staples

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

Thanks Dan,

When you put down radials, you automatically sacrifice your golf course 
putting green lawn, if you ever had one, because you:

A.   Raise the blade up as high as you can,

B.   Sharpen the blade at the start of mowing season so it _cuts through_ 
the wire if it hits one.

It's a lot easier to repair a clipped radial, than one that's been torn up 
and wrapped around the blade.

73,

rob/k5uj

From: "Dan H. Gaylord" <gaylord at cascadenetworks.net>
To: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>,<towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radial Staples
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:52:18 -0700


Rob...
   I'm sure that everyone already knows, but just a reminder...
   Be very careful with bobby pine, staples,  wire, or what ever you use... 
A lawn mower, given the oppportunity to snag one, will send a lethal 
projectile where ever it wants to. All it needs to do is catch the staple or 
the radial and use it to fling the device.   I've seen similar stuff thrown 
completely through  a wall from outside to inside a house on the floor!
Dan W7IDG
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radial Staples


>Mike,
>
>If the bobby pins fail to go in, in some places, give the barb wire fence
>staples a try.  The prongs are so thick and sharp you can smash them in 
>with
>a hammer.    I have a lot of junk below grade here too and they work.  of
>course it's also true that with radials, if there is resistance you can
>always move the anchor a foot one way or the other.    I don't know if ur
>ground freezes or not but up here the fence staples punch through frozen
>crust no problem.
>
>rob/k5uj
>
>
>
><<<The sod staples are more work to get into the hard rocky ground around
>here
>and also way overkill to hold a piece of 20 or 22 guage wire down. Possibly
>in FL with the soil being somewhat sandy it would be very easy to use the
>sod staples and also possibly need something that large to stay in the
>ground.  You would think they would have to be more expensive than bobbie
>pins just looking at the amount metal in sod staples versus bobbies.  I 
>have
>priced sod staples at Lowes and there is no comparison price wise to
>bobbies.
>73 Mike K4PI >>>
>
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