[GreenKeys] Barbed wire fence phone systems

[Ralph Irish]

I have a Hustler trap vertical, (5BTV) bolted to one of the fence posts for the fence 
that separates our property from the next one to the east. Needless to say, a galvanized 
wire 'groundplane' with perhaps several thousand 'junctions' where one piece of wire 
is bent at a 90 degree and interlocked with another, probably has its drawbacks. 

I have discovered that if I take my rubber mallet out there and smack the bottom piece of 
pipe as high as I can reach, about a dozen times, that seems to cause enough vibration to 
get the many 'joints' between aluminum tubing and traps, etc. to sort of re-establish 
themselves. Know that there are conductive 'pastes' that serve the same purpose, and 
probably don't require the ongoing 'percussive maintenance', but I'd hate to take it down 
just for that purpose since it has served me so well for the past 35 or 40 years. Could it 
be better? Probably. 

I hope to locate a few photos I have taken of this arrangement and put them in here soon. 

73 and "Happy New Year" to the G/K gang. 

Ralph - W8ROI 




From: "Don Robert House" <drhouse42 at icloud.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 2:41:30 PM 
Subject: Barbed wire fence phone systems 

Thanks to Brother Larry Godek for this! 
[ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/ | https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/ ] 
[ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/ ] 
	
[ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/ | Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls | Texas Standard ] 
Historian J. Evetts Haley wrote that, in its time, the old XIT Ranch up in the Texas Panhandle was “probably the largest fenced range in the world.” He recalled that its barbed wire enclosed over 3 million acres of land. At the north end alone, the fence ran for 162 miles. The unique enclosure ... 
[ http://www.texasstandard.org/ | www.texasstandard.org ] 


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