What did you accomplish today?

Srirachi

Srirachi

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I'm not at all afraid of heights and have climbed FM broadcast antennas before, but those top out at around 200'. My number one fear when adjusting antenna attenuators? Fucking hornets. How a hornet decides 200' up is a good place to have a nest is beyond me but damned if that wasn't a thing.

When you get to 600' does nature still try to kill you? Do you have issues with birds defending nests or anything?
 
GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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Srirachi said:
I'm not at all afraid of heights and have climbed FM broadcast antennas before, but those top out at around 200'. My number one fear when adjusting antenna attenuators? Fucking hornets. How a hornet decides 200' up is a good place to have a nest is beyond me but damned if that wasn't a thing.

When you get to 600' does nature still try to kill you? Do you have issues with birds defending nests or anything?
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The towers were around 4' and triangular shaped - there was a rail that ran up the middle of the ladder that you clipped your fall arrester into. No place really for birds to build a nest & most hornets in that area lived in the ground.

Though once I was gifted 7 stitches in my scalp by an Eagle defending it's nest on a shore aid to navigation that I was trying to service.

That one ~ Smarted ~ a bit.
 
Chunky Stool

Chunky Stool

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I'm doing a couple of experiments today.
The first is mole tea made with fresh mint.
I'll strain it then try to heard them out of my yard by spraying specific locations over a period of several days.
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The second experiment is homemade aloe fertilizer.
I froze most of it in ice cube trays but saved some in the fridge. Not sure why it turned pink...
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Bareback

Bareback

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
The towers were around 4' and triangular shaped - there was a rail that ran up the middle of the ladder that you clipped your fall arrester into. No place really for birds to build a nest & most hornets in that area lived in the ground.

Though once I was gifted 7 stitches in my scalp by an Eagle defending it's nest on a shore aid to navigation that I was trying to service.

That one ~ Smarted ~ a bit.
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A decade or so ago, in the state of Florida they started putting eagle nest on top of power poles, the first time I saw that I thought " I bet that wasn't a lineman's idea "
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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jerryb73 said:
Not judging, you said, mornin.. wish I could sleep that late. I could stay up till 4, still gonna wake up 7-730:-?
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actually i usually wake up bout 7:30am......don't touch a computer till about 11am....gives me some time to wake up and get a few things done around the house before i venture off to work....

didn't get to sleep last night till 2am.....
 
Coloradoclear

Coloradoclear

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Chunky Stool said:
I'm doing a couple of experiments today.
The first is mole tea made with fresh mint.
I'll strain it then try to heard them out of my yard by spraying specific locations over a period of several days.
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The second experiment is homemade aloe fertilizer.
I froze most of it in ice cube trays but saved some in the fridge. Not sure why it turned pink...
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Tell us more about this homemade mole/vole spray . . . They are hard to shoot!
 
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