[TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree

[Edward Mccann]

And after you get it out, go to Home Depot, spend $12 on a poly-clad bicycle cablelock long enough to wrap around the tree branch or trunk, secure the two eyes with a stainless carabiner or threaded shackle (next aisle over) and run several continuos black antenna ropes thru the shackle, as in sail halyards. Pick one, half way tie in a harkens marine pulley ($15 on Amazon), run your wire through, and haul away!

Ed McCann
AG6CX 

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> On Oct 18, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Jon Zaimes <jz73 at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Bob,
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> Hire a tree climber to remove and re-install, using a rope with lower breaking strength than the wire. Then if it gets snagged again the rope should break not the wire if you pull on it. Also could put rope in bent conduit where it goes across crotch of limb so tree doesn't grow into the rope. Or have climber install marine-grade pulley there on an eye screw and use continuous loop of heavier rope to support wire (so if wire breaks you can still retrieve rope).
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> 73/Jon
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> Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K
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>> On Oct 17, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M <kq2m at kq2m.com> wrote:
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>> Not an option for me Keith – the only access to the tree is through the septic field – so I can’t use a bucket truck or other vehicle.
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>> Bob, KQ2M
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>> From: Keith Dutson 
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 9:07 PM
>> To: Tower Talk 
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree
>> 
>> Rent a bucket truck, one like the tree trimming people use?
>> 
>> Keith NM5G
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Shohet, KQ2M
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:59 PM
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Getting a stuck wire antenna out of a tree
>> 
>> I have one element of my 80 M 4-square stuck in a tree and I can’t get it down even with trying a variety of methods.  I believe that the element is not actually stuck but rather the 3/16” rope that it is attached to is caught in the notch of a branch and the branch may have grown around it and trapped it within.
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>> I could try to pull it out with extreme force but I fear that the element would break and then leave a dangling piece of wire of indeterminate length that could couple to one of the elements and affect the pattern and/or tangle with the replacement element.
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>> Does any one have any ideas of what else I might try to get the element out whole?
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>> Tnx & 73
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>> Bob KQ2M
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