[TowerTalk] Abrasion resistant wire antenna support suggestions

[Edward Mccann]

One response not heard was what I use in such critical areas: Home Depot sells Master plastic-coated or covered wire bike lock cables. Install in the offending places, trees live, cables survive, use stainless shackles if necessary to connect a couple. 

About $15 for 6': $7 for same thing here:

https://www.zoro.com/master-lock-cable-6-ft-78dpf/i/G1925366/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAuJXFBRDirIGnpZLE-N4BEiQAqV0KGjk_JtUNkQS95zn7L_LprNa0gUDjFxiuJ5H3lHYPGwAaAo_58P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds

Works for me.
Over tree limbs cable doesn't grow into tree!
Even XYL happy in her pursuit of green solutions.

73
Ed McCann
AG6CX

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> On Feb 16, 2017, at 3:59 AM, NC3Z Gary <nc3z at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the replies, there are a few that give me some good ideas.
> 
> I did not note it in my original post but I am using pulleys and Antenna 
> Tensioner devices. The rope is not breaking due to tree sway. Between 
> the trunk and the outside perimeter of the tree, the rope travels 
> through and there are branches that the rope passes by, these branches 
> move in the wind and rub against the rope.
> 
> But either steel cable of some sort for this area, or some sort of 
> flexible tubing slid over the rope in this area I see as solutions. 
> Simple enough but I was over thinking the issue and didn't consider the 
> simpler solutions. Thanks for the useful replies.
> 
> 
> Gary Mitchelson
> NC3Z/4 Pamlico County, NC FM15
> 
>> On 15-Feb-17 22:46, Grant Saviers wrote:
>> If you shoot the
>> line into the limb crotch and keep the line close to the trunk it's not
>> clear to me what the source is for the abrasion.
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