This probably won't make any sense to anyone reading this, except perhaps the Hams (Amateur Radio operators) among us.
I have wire antennas in trees. If the wires stay up there in one place too long, sometimes the tree will grow around a wire. Normally not a huge problem....until....the wire breaks and now it's the wrong length to be resonant on whatever frequency I intend for it to be on.
I had a wire break recently, part of it fell to the ground, so I knew from measuring that my wire is "stuck" in a tree about 40' up. THere's no way for me to reach it. I tried yanking on it by hand but no go. I'm not 20 anymore so could not seem to break the #12AWG R90 wire by hand.
Also, I have in the past had whole branches come down off the top of the tree and almost clock me, so I always try to wrestle wires with something....lawn tractor, car, truck, and now the BX2380
I was able to get the "near end" tied to the trailer hitch on the tractor and "pop" it out of the treetop by merely driving forward maybe 3'.... Judging from the insulation, I only lost 6" of actual copper. NBD.
I love this tractor.
If you really zoom in, you can see the wire roughly center of the drivers seat, right of center, off kilter to the right. It's tied to the hitch. Goes up 40-41' into the canopy "somewhere"
Did I mention I love this thing? (p.s.- I had the ROPS up and hardhat and safety glasses on before popping the wire out of the tree)
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