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[Philip Leonard]

How did/do you keep the deer from chewing on the hardline?  I had a 300' 
run of 1/2" hardline laying on the ground and the deer just loved to 
chew on it.

Philip


On 4/3/2011 4:42 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> You can't fight mother nature.  You have to play along.  sealing pipe
> to keep water out, steel wool etc. won't do anything except keep you
> fixing the line all the time.   If you have to go under a driveway,
> you have to allow for drainage and keep the passage open for
> evaporation.   You have to excavate on each side of the driveway and
> cut a trench through it and lay corrugated galvanized steel conduit
> about 12 inches diameter down in the trench.  It should have gravel
> around it.  to the ceiling of the conduit you have to attach a pipe
> that's about twice the diameter of the feedline.   lay the whole thing
> in the trench so the ends protrude a bit past the pavement above, and
> with a slight pitch to one end to drain into the excavated area.  Fill
> in the trench and pave over the top.   Push your feedline through the
> pipe.   Animals may still chew on it, maybe not, but the whole thing
> will drain, there will be no moisture problem because it is an open
> system and the feedline will be easy to get to, and examine.   This is
> laborious and expensive but that is usually how it is if you want to
> do something right and not have to continually mess around with it.
> Use LDF4-50 and animals may leave it alone more often.  I run LDF4-50
> and simply lay it on the ground.  It eventually sinks into the grass.
> I have done that for years and never had any animal damage and we have
> you name it, moles, skunks, chipmunks, groundhogs, possum, deer,
> geese, squirrels....
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ