Winch Cable Replacement??

Welcome to the internet's gathering place for Purple Martin enthusiasts
Post Reply
Larry D
Posts: 18
Joined: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:20 pm
Location: Texas/Weatherford
Martin Colony History: 4 years trying
2015 -- FINALLY!! One pair, 4 fledged. We took a 2 week vacation to Alaska in May and returned to find our first pair!!
2016 - - 2 pair, 6 fledged
2017 - - 3 pair, 5 fledged

Is it difficult? I went out to lower my houses due to high wind and my Trio 24 Castle won't come all the way down. The cable has one strand broken and it's "bunched up" so it won't lower all the way. I'm thinking replacement with a little heavier cable.
2011 -- 0
2012 -- 0
2013 -- Hoping!
2014 -- Nada. Still trying!
2015 -- FINALLY!! One pair, 4 fledged. We took a 2 week vacation to Alaska in May and returned to find our first pair!!
2016 - - 2 pair, 6 fledged
2017 - - 3 pair, 5 fledged
Top
ToyinPA
Posts: 2227
Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:07 pm
Location: PA/Avis
Martin Colony History: The 1972 St. Agnes flood wiped out all the Martins in my area. One day, in 1997-98, 5 or 6 Martins landed on the power wires crossing my back yard. I had no house for them. They kept coming back day after day. We got a martin house a few weeks later & they have been coming back every year since. I average 12-15 pair per year.

Larry:

We got SS Cable at Lowe's. In our store it was not located with the rest of the cable. It was in the section with screws/nuts/bolts/etc. They cut it to size for us & we got SS connectors in the same section.

Toy in PA.
Top
~Ray~Gingerich
Posts: 2122
Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:24 pm
Location: Delaware/Dover

Are you able to prop the house up with something? If so maybe you can cut the cable then fasten your new cable to the old with electrical tape and run it through.
~Ray~ Gingerich
1999 1pair, 2006 2 pair, 2008 2 pair,
2009 23 pair, 2010 39 pair, 2011 67 pair,
2012 115 pair, 2013 160 pair,
2014 152 pair, 2015 174 pair, 2016 178 pair
2017 187 pair, 2018 200 pair, 2019 171pair
2020 233 pair
Top
Bob Fraser
Posts: 108
Joined: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:39 pm
Location: North Carolina/Camden

Haven't done it. But envisioned putting a "C" clamp on the pole and letting it bear the weight of the gourd rack. Letting some more slack in the cable and unhooking the existing cable. Take the new cable and tape it to the old and then crank it through to the other side.
PMCA member
2011 - 8 pair
2012 - 31 pair full house no more room at the inn.
as of 5/31 83 babies 63 eggs. Wound up with 173 fledged.

2013 - 35 pair around 200 fledged.
2018 - 80 pairs 420 fledged


I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Top
Larry D
Posts: 18
Joined: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:20 pm
Location: Texas/Weatherford
Martin Colony History: 4 years trying
2015 -- FINALLY!! One pair, 4 fledged. We took a 2 week vacation to Alaska in May and returned to find our first pair!!
2016 - - 2 pair, 6 fledged
2017 - - 3 pair, 5 fledged

Thanks, folks. Sounds like a plan. When it warms up a bit, I'll get out there and figure out how it's fastened, how long, etc. I helped my FIL replace a rope on an M12K a couple of years ago and that's what we did. I just need to "git 'er done". Thanks again!
2011 -- 0
2012 -- 0
2013 -- Hoping!
2014 -- Nada. Still trying!
2015 -- FINALLY!! One pair, 4 fledged. We took a 2 week vacation to Alaska in May and returned to find our first pair!!
2016 - - 2 pair, 6 fledged
2017 - - 3 pair, 5 fledged
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Purple Martin Forum”