[AMRadio] coax lead in

[Jim Wilhite]

His deer must not be as hungry as yours and mine. :>)

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 

> 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
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