Raptures

[Highplains Drifter]

What’s everyone doing to not bother and protect raptures? I know the normal "Party Hats" installed on xformer bushings. But what about construction? I ran across this one where they left the nest and just lowered the primary on the pole.

[Blizzy23]

For new construction, we have been putting on plastic guards that go over the wire and insulator. Also, ''v'' covers that nail to the crossarm and extends about 10-14 inches above the conductor. Supposedly there is nowhere for the birds to land (but they just fly to another pole without raptor protection on it. Also, sometimes we use split rubber to go around the high side of the cutouts.

[Highplains Drifter]

For new construction, we have been putting on plastic guards that go over the wire and insulator. Also, ''v'' covers that nail to the crossarm and extends about 10-14 inches above the conductor. Supposedly there is nowhere for the birds to land (but they just fly to another pole without raptor protection on it. Also, sometimes we use split rubber to go around the high side of the cutouts.



Know those inverted V’s well, call them "Teepees" and when split apart and using the one half on the pole we call them a "feather".:D Blizzy, do you have a photo of one?

[Blizzy23]

Sorry I don't. They're just plastic pieces that you can adjust the "wideness" of them. They have 8 holes on the bottom of them to nail in the arm. So yeah it looks like an upside down "V". They are required on all new 3 phase construction. We also put up "spikes" that go on top of the arm in between the phases and are nailed down also. They are about 6 inch spikes that prevent birds from landing. When things are slow we get to go "raptor protect". Rubber gloving and putting up all kinds of rubber to install one piece of plastic. You wouldn't think so, but it actually takes a long while by the time you use all your rubber and set up notifications with the DO. Just another way to use all the money in their budget.

[hotwiretamer]

We actually have a plastic basket with a bracket to mount to the pole. I have installed a few. When I get a chance I will take a picture and post. By the way Drifter, I think it is Raptor, not Rapture. I past this thread up not knowing anything about Raptures! :p

[Highplains Drifter]

We actually have a plastic basket with a bracket to mount to the pole. I have installed a few. When I get a chance I will take a picture and post. By the way Drifter, I think it is Raptor, not Rapture. I past this thread up not knowing anything about Raptures! :p


Ya got me!!!:D

[Pootnaigle]

Ummmm several years back the company I worked for built a 500KV line on steel towers to transmit power inter, and intra state. As with most of these transmission lines they ran through some purdy inaccessable country. But there was a stretch where the Buzzards, Raptors , as you guys callem kept crapping on the suspension insulators causing the line to trip out. Some genius designed a buzzard shit guard and they installed em on the entire stretch. Kinda like an umbrella over the bells.

[Lineman North Florida]

We had problems with Ospreys and one of the guys at the power plant set out his turkey decoy where we were working so as a joke we put the turkey up on a pole at the power plant where an osprey had just started a nest and they ( the pair of Osprey's ) never would come back to the pole, they would land a span away and look but never have tried to nest there again, I thought it might be a fluke but since have done it at 3 other locations with the same results, it has worked every time, end results they leave.

[wtdoor67]

I think it's been rescheduled for Oct. 21st of this year. You'll have to wait.

[topgroove]

I think it's been rescheduled for Oct. 21st of this year. You'll have to wait.uh oh the rapture pastor just had a stroke:eek: looks like he'll be leaving before the party starts.:(

[Highplains Drifter]

uh oh the rapture pastor just had a stroke:eek: looks like he'll be leaving before the party starts.:(


Well Door could have been a lot worse on me for my first "Senior Moment"!

[Highplains Drifter]

Here is a pole top extension with a nest pan, for an Osprey mothering her young. Blizzy, in the lower right is one of your Tee-Pees.

[hotwiretamer]

This is what we use Drifter:

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[Lineman North Florida]

This is what we use and it has worked flawlessly on several different poles, ya'll thought that I was BS'ing.:D

[hotwiretamer]

This is what we use and it has worked flawlessly on several different poles, ya'll thought that I was BS'ing.:D

Maybe this is a dumb question, but will this Turkey scare away Hawks?:confused::confused:

[Lineman North Florida]

Maybe this is a dumb question, but will this Turkey scare away Hawks?:confused::confused:
Don't really know, never had a need to run off any hawks but I doubt it as hawks will prey on turkeys in the wild, I'll tell you what wont work however is those big owls like you see some people use in their garden, I put up 3 on top of 90' wood hi-line poles that we had a problem with a big red-headed woodpecker blasting holes in those green CCA treated poles and on the way back out to the highway had to come right back by them and he was less than 3' below one of the owls that I had just mounted pecking away, must have been a California Woodpecker is all I can figure.