[Elecraft] Trees eating wire

[Fred Jensen]

I thought the round-headed Charlie Brown had thoroughly researched the 
"Trees Eating Things" problem ...

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 5/26/2019 12:04 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> I was on a 50 mile Scout trek and two Scouts got a bear-bagging rope with a rock tied to it stuck in a tree. They pulled as hard as they could and it shot back and hit one of them in the neck. Luckily, it only hit soft tissue, but he was in shock and couldn’t turn his head for a couple of days.
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> There is a kind of rope which is specifically designed to not get stuck in trees, “arborist throw line”. These days, I exclusively use that for bear bagging and for field antennas. Arborists also have throw weights for trees, though I don’t take those on hikes.
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> http://www.wesspur.com/throw-line/zing-it-throw-line.html
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