[TowerTalk] Fwd: Canada geese

[Hans Hammarquist]

 Mark, I believe Patrick's suggestion stands out to be the best. I second that if the birds or whatever you have destroying your cable cannot chew through it they will leave it alone.


Good luck and tell us how it went.


Hans - N2JFS

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
To: Mark N2QT <n2qt at yahoo.com>; towertalk <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 8:29
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Canada geese

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______________________________________________________________________________________________TowerTalk mailing listTowerTalk at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk