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11/15/06, 01:50 PM
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What can I do to protect the phone wire?
I live in a mobile home and it isn't skirted yet. Don't have the money to do it at the moment. Problem is, the geese keep chewing thru the phone line coming from the box into the house. I repaired it again this morning in a clipping gale and would rather not do it again and again and....
So, aside from assasinating the geese, what can I do to protect the line?
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11/15/06, 01:53 PM
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You could go to the hardware store and get some metal pipe. Just run the line through that.
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11/15/06, 01:55 PM
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Got an old water hose?
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11/15/06, 01:58 PM
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A hose would work too. Anything so those gees can't get to that wire. You could also try burying it.
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11/15/06, 02:11 PM
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What about a length of pvc pipe, run the line thru it. It's inexepensive.
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11/15/06, 02:17 PM
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You need a piece of 1/2 pvc pipe and a shotgun.
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11/15/06, 02:50 PM
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don't forget the stew pot..lol...
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11/15/06, 03:24 PM
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Coat the wire with vasoline.
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11/15/06, 03:36 PM
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All good suggestions except the garden hose, my geese have chewed through a hose.
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11/15/06, 04:21 PM
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No stew pot or shot gun! LOL
I believe they could chew thru a hose, too, tho they haven't got around to those yet.
How do I fix the pvc pipe so they can't jerk it loose? These guys are strong.
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11/15/06, 04:34 PM
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With the PVC conduit, once the line is run through it, you have a couple of choices to secure it. My preference would be to secure it to the underside of the mobile home using pipe straps. If it is to stay on the ground, you could take reqular wire clothes hangers, cut & bent them to fit over the conduit & use them like stakes to push them into the ground. Space them out every couple feet to hold the conduit on place.
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11/15/06, 06:47 PM
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Run it through a piece of PVC anchored to a piece of rebar or pipe pounded into the ground. I think some of your other replies to problems would be to "hook a hot wire around it" 
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11/15/06, 07:13 PM
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I protected our phone cable by placing it inside 1" black plastic water pipe. The pipe is inexpensive and very durable. That was 16 years ago and the pipe still looks as good today as it did then. No problems. I did this with 1.5 MILES of line and simply laid it along the forest floor, no protection other than that exept where I went under the logging roads - then I put it in 4" culvert buried 18" to protect it from the trucks and skidders. This is a simple, cheap, effective solution you can easily do yourself.
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11/15/06, 07:56 PM
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just use EMT, you know, METAL conduit.....crap, its galvanized AND a bird cnat chew it up....simple,,,,,done,,,,,,
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