[TowerTalk] Split Loom as an anti-critter device?

[Wes Stewart]

Here in the desert southwest pack rats (White throated wood rats) are our 
nemesis.  They are extraordinarily destructive to automobiles parked outside.  I 
have two outside and we keep the hoods partially open and put drop lights under 
the hoods.  I have had RG213 jackets gnawed in short order but Heliax seems 
impervious.  The cable loom would be food to these guys.

Wes  N7WS

   , On 10/31/2018 4:04 PM, Scott Townley wrote:
> New to the Northeast, and all the critters that eat...well, everything when it 
> gets cold enough.
>
> I am planning on running a length of FSJ-4 (1/2" Andrews superflex) from the 
> house to the end of the back yard.  In the spring I will bury it, but until 
> then it needs to sit on top of the lawn.  I worry about something eating 
> through it--although it's pretty hefty for something to chew on, it wouldn't 
> surprise me.
>
> I was thinking I'd put the cable in say a 1" or 1-1/2" split cable loom, just 
> as an extra cover to fend off teeth.  Dumb? Unnecessary?  What does the 
> Collective Wisdom say?
>
> TIA,
>