[TowerTalk] Acorns?

[Keith Dutson]

That is indeed interesting.  Thanks for sharing.  How tall is your mast?

I spent about 3.5 hours up on my 150 foot tower this morning.  Put up 2 new
antennas.  Wore out before installing coax and stack equipment.  Will try to
finish the job tomorrow.

73, Keith NM5G

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Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 4:19 PM
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Subject: [TowerTalk] Acorns?


Managed to squeeze in an hour on a busy Saturday to do a little tower work.
I removed the rotator so I could lower my A3S down for an A743 upgrade.

The interesting moment came when I went to raise the mast up so I could pull
out the rotator. I unbolted the rotator clamp, then raised the mast with a
screwdriver. Soon I get a lapfull of acorns. In my 2"  
aluminum mast, there must have been hundreds of them.

When I pulled out the rotator, I was greeted with about a hundred more. The
top of the mast is uncapped. Apparently, birds have taken to dropping the
acorns into the mast, thinking they'll come back and dig them out of the
hole. Unfortunately, the acorns drop irretrivably
9 feet down to the rotator.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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