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Guy wires
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Up on the hill by our boat shed there's a mast for a TV antenna, left over from the pre-Directv time. I'm gonna get around to making it a flagpole. Three guy wires, two to be mowed around.
So that I'll notice them, mowing or walking, I took six foot pieces of 3/4 inch pvc (the cheap, thin, not Schedule 40), split them down one side, and clipped them over the wires. Catch the eye, not the neck.
Wm
So that I'll notice them, mowing or walking, I took six foot pieces of 3/4 inch pvc (the cheap, thin, not Schedule 40), split them down one side, and clipped them over the wires. Catch the eye, not the neck.
Wm
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Not aimed at anyone in particular, or even aimed at all, but is it "guy" wires or "guide" wires? I've actually heard people from the utility company call them both. Survey says...?
JCody
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"Guy" is correct but "guide" is being used more and more. Do a search for "guy" on this link and it gives a description. http://www.word-detective.com/102805.html
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Ace Hardware (and I'm sure many others) sell "Guy Wire".
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We're the last house on a dead end road. Power lines stop in the front yard. (Underground from there to house) With power (3 ph service to my shop) cable TV, and phone cables pulling on it, the last pole on the line has THREE guy wires dropping down into a ditch, next to the mailbox, right at the driveway culvert, on the edge of the road, on a steep hill. If I hit those wires with ANYTHING other than a weedwhacker, I'm in serious trouble.
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The pole don't need moved:
The guy wire just needs changed a little or it might not even be necessary to have the guy wire.
Probably only about a 30 minute job.
The electric company set the pole and their guy wire 35 years ago. It's right about on the property line between me and my neighbor. The pole might be on my neighbor or then again it may be on me or could be on both of us. The screw anchor is 19 feet out from the base of the pole and was set in my yard in an area that was all grass and lawn at the time.
I quit mowing the area about 25 years ago and it grew up in dense saplings and heavy brush.
About 5 years ago Charter ran cable service out through here using this pole for their cable and attached another guy wire on the same side of the pole and running the same direction away from the pole as the one all ready there by the elect company.
Since the area was all grown up with briers saplings brush and vines charter took the easy way out and put the screw anchor At the edge of the over growth closer to the pole than the one from the electric company is.
This drastically cut down the clearance I had to get around the electric companies guy wire.
Charter took the easy way out by putting their anchor closer to the pole instead of clearing a path for the guy wire & anchor.
If the over growth had been another ten feet closer to the pole there is no doubt in my mind the screw anchor would be ten feet closer to the pole than it is now.
Should the placement of the screw anchor be determined on the distance it needs to be from the pole or should it be determined by how far the land is cleared out away from the pole?
Now that I have the area all cleared out for them the least they could do is come back and install the anchor and guy wire right like they should have done in the first place. (if there is going to be one)
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The pole don't need moved:
The guy wire just needs changed a little or it might not even be necessary to have the guy wire.
Probably only about a 30 minute job.
The electric company set the pole and their guy wire 35 years ago. It's right about on the property line between me and my neighbor. The pole might be on my neighbor or then again it may be on me or could be on both of us. The screw anchor is 19 feet out from the base of the pole and was set in my yard in an area that was all grass and lawn at the time.
I quit mowing the area about 25 years ago and it grew up in dense saplings and heavy brush.
About 5 years ago Charter ran cable service out through here using this pole for their cable and attached another guy wire on the same side of the pole and running the same direction away from the pole as the one all ready there by the elect company.
Since the area was all grown up with briers saplings brush and vines charter took the easy way out and put the screw anchor At the edge of the over growth closer to the pole than the one from the electric company is.
This drastically cut down the clearance I had to get around the electric companies guy wire.
Charter took the easy way out by putting their anchor closer to the pole instead of clearing a path for the guy wire & anchor.
If the over growth had been another ten feet closer to the pole there is no doubt in my mind the screw anchor would be ten feet closer to the pole than it is now.
Should the placement of the screw anchor be determined on the distance it needs to be from the pole or should it be determined by how far the land is cleared out away from the pole?
Now that I have the area all cleared out for them the least they could do is come back and install the anchor and guy wire right like they should have done in the first place. (if there is going to be one)
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I took out a guy wire with the top of a brush cage last year, didnt notice it was snapped except the wire blowing in the wind. Used a bit of rope to fix it.
I'm more worried about overhanging branches. Rolled over backwards due to one of them on the same job as when i took the guy wire out. Not one of the best jobs really /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I'm more worried about overhanging branches. Rolled over backwards due to one of them on the same job as when i took the guy wire out. Not one of the best jobs really /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
