[TowerTalk] Canada geese

[Patrick Greenlee]

Mark, it seems to me you are taking two of the best possible steps, 
verification of who the enemy is via the trail cam and more robustly 
armoring the trouble spot. The camera will satisfy your curiosity and 
the armoring will offer real protection.

I have a 200 gal round stock watering tank positioned adjacent to a well 
house.  It has an auto fill float valve and a thermostatically 
controlled heater in it. In summer I don't have the heater powered up 
and the cows ate the wires and chewed up the water hose. I repaired the 
damage and wrapped the trouble spot with 4 point barbed wire.  You can't 
buy barbed wire in short lengths (comes in large rolls) but if you could 
find a fence company or farmer/rancher with barbed wire fences you could 
probably get several feet for free or low cost. The 4 point is best and 
some of that will make a real deterrent to further damage.  Barbed wire 
is a much better deterrent than hardware cloth.

An optional method of application of the barbed wire that is easier on 
you to install is to encircle the area of interest with several straight 
pieces of barbed wire running parallel to the coax.  Use wire to make 
ties around the coax/barbed wire bundle. If you carefully remove the 
barbs from a foot long piece of barbed wire and separate the two wire 
strands the individual wires can be use to wrap around the bundle of 
coax and barbed wire.  I can't think of a critter of lesser stature than 
Godzilla that could gnaw through a coax protected this way.

The cattle ate the wires of my first WX station even though they were in 
PVC conduit.  My second station is better protected.

Best of luck to you whichever way you proceed.  I hope the trail cam 
identifies the culprit and it isn't some misguided miscreant.

I got a good belly laugh re the fence them out suggestions, electric 
fence or otherwise, as from my personal observation I can assure you 
that geese are good fliers capable of clearing any fence, great wall of 
China, Trump's border wall, etc.

Patrick        NJ5G