Getting a Small Job Done

[bookcollector]

I've been trying to get a lumberjack in Amador Co,CA to climb a 100 foot pine tree to attach a vertical ham radio antenna. I know it's a small job, but I would expect people to at least call me back. No call backs. Should I be looking for a recreational climber? Why aren't the pros interested? Is it the size of the job or maybe they aren't comfortable attaching connectors and coax seal.

Are any climbers in the area interested in ham radio. I'd gladly help them toward getting a license.
Ernie

 

[kkottemann]

Try calling a tree service, get a salesman to come out and give you a quote for his crew to get it done. Probabbly would not take more than an hour or so.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Go to our sponsor, Sherrill tree http://www.wtsherrill.com/, and buy the BigShot set and line.

The you can run your element up and be able to get it down yourself.

Next thing you know, you'll be setting up longwires, dipoles and halfrombics all over the yard, just because you can.

My Dad is W9FTE, was AAR9FQ for a long time(I helped run NNN0COW during Gulf I as a USMC 2531). His lament is that it's not the same as it was when he "made" his own tube set, way back when.

I've set a couple people up bigshots to run field expedient ant's while camping doing low power CQ (what is that game they play trying to get as many contacts as they can in a certain time period??)

 

[newb]

Maybe if you did't underestimate the value of the job you could get someone to come out and look at it. I would think climbing a 100' tree and putting an antenna in it isn't that small of a job. Granted it isn't an all day job, but it still takes talent and resources. I think its all in the way your asking. I don't go look at jobs where the costumer tells me how it should be done, " I have this small pile of brush that i'd like chipped, it should only take you 20 minutes" yea, right. Pete

 

[kf6ivi]

Ernie
It is good to “see” you. I would do the job for you, if I was in the neighborhood. I hope someone can get it done for you.

I have known Ernie for a few years. I know him from amateur radio he is one of the “good guys.” He had kept a ham repeater in San Luis Obispo County for many years.
I hope somebody reading this can help him out.

Ethan KF6IVI

 

[rmihalek]

get a pneumatic tennis ball launcher.

type "antenna launcher" into a search engine and you get some links to fellow operators who have developed these devices.

 

[teamtree]

call an electrician

 

[Dadatwins]

I know nothing about ham radio, but I am wondering if installing this antenna on the tree will make it a target to lightning strikes? and should lightning protection be installed at the same time as the antenna? Hate to see the trouble of installing the antenna and then a lightning strike kills the tower.

 

[John464]

Maybe if you did't underestimate the value of the job you could get someone to come out and look at it. I would think climbing a 100' tree and putting an antenna in it isn't that small of a job. Granted it isn't an all day job, but it still takes talent and resources. I think its all in the way your asking. I don't go look at jobs where the costumer tells me how it should be done, " I have this small pile of brush that i'd like chipped, it should only take you 20 minutes" yea, right. Pete

Pete,

you hit the nail on the head. the ones that devalue a job making is seem so simple are the ones that don't want to pay what its worth. what I feel like saying to this type of persona is if its so damn easy why dont you go do it yourself. When I hear this on the phone I generally give a price range over the phone on the high side as a way of blowing them off nicely. Most wouldnt even call back. I'll call you back and charge you a premium for going since 100' is so easy.