[TowerTalk] Alternative To Rohn Anti-Climb Sections

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Wed Oct 24 07:28:10 EDT 2007


That's hardware cloth, which is what I use.  It is readily available in 
3-foot-wide rolls.

73, Pete

At 11:49 PM 10/23/2007, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
>You sure that was chicken wire? I used to raise those critters in another
>life, long , long, ago. Chicken wire is a relatively small gage has just
>small enough openings baby chicks can't get through it which makes them
>about 1" and very easy to climb, at least for the dertermined.  There is
>another wire mesh that is much heavier with about 1/4" openings/grid and
>that stuff would be very difficult to climb. IIRC chicken wire comes in 2',
>3' heights. The heavier mesh with the 1/4" grid comes up to 6' in height.
>However I hasten to add that was over 50 years ago.
>
>BTW we also used the "chicken wire" in the roosts as "any thing dropped"
>went right through and could easily be scraped out. OTOH it sure beat
>cleaning out the pig pen in the spring.  Ah, the joys of living on a farm.
>
>73
>
>Roger (K8RI)
>
>
> >I also used chicken wire wrapped to about 6-7 feet off the ground.  Never
> >had a problem with anyone trying to climb my crank up tower.
> >
> >  Tom, WW5L
> >
> >
> >
> > Nathaniel Lee <n1bnc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  I wrapped my tower with chicken wire a couple of times and used steel
> > wire to hold it there. Never
> > had a problem with it in a city environment. To access the tower I also
> > used a step ladder...
> >
> > Nat
> > Somersworth, NH
> >
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