[TowerTalk] Safety jackets for guy wires.

[Ken K6MR]

If it's pool season, look for the brightly colored "noodles" made for kids in the pool. They are about 2" diameter so you get padding in case you do walk into them. Slice them down one side and they snap on nicely. Available at your local WalMart.
Ken K6MR

> From: bparry at rgv.rr.com
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:51:47 -0500
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Safety jackets for guy wires.
> 
> Back in 2001 I spent a great deal of time learning from all you guys
> regarding putting up a guyed tower.  It was a huge help. One thing that I
> didn't see or missed was something to put on the guy wires to protect me
> from hanging myself while mowing the yard. I noticed that the electric
> company (Magic Valley Electric Company) had put long plastic tubes around
> their back guys on their poles. I called them and asked if I could buy three
> to put on my 3 bottom guys for my 120 foot Rohn tower.  They said that they
> didn't sell them but gave me the suppliers phone number in San Antonio. I
> called them and the fellow I talked to was a ham and said he was coming down
> this way and would bring me 3 if I would give him lunch. He brought them to
> the house and for the price of my wife making him a ham sandwich! 
> 
> Those things have saved my old bald head many times. If you have bare guy
> wires you might think about putting them on...very easy. Mine are
> fluorescent yellow, about 1" in diameter and about 8 feet long.  I don't
> think the price was outlandish. I bet they are available lots of places.
> They just snap on your guy wires.
> 
> Bill W5VX
> 
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