jasmith-tech t1_j2ana0w wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:19 PM

You would need some sort of captured track. Rather than a loop running around a wire, the “running” part would be a carrier traveling through a track so that you could support it without interference and make the bend/turns you want.

Traveler tracks are the basic idea, but much more substantial than needed and overkill for a dog run, but the idea remains the same.

Unless there’s some kind of gated, spring loaded toggling bracket I’ve never seen.. I suppose you could fabricate your own fairly easily with some trial and error.

UtetopiaSS OP t1_j2aqbap wrote on December 30, 2022 at 9:39 PM

The traveler track is sort of the idea I had in mind for encasing the join. Perhaps a crimped wire loop would serve as how the dog chain was attached to the run, and it pulls inside the track as the dog goes past it. I'd only use that on the section of run where it needs to be supported at Point B, and where there's a directional change.

I've also thought of a gated, spring loaded toggling bracket, but it needs to be spring loaded BOTH ways, because the dog would go back and forth. I'd envision it as V-shaped, so as when the dog went past, it would flick down, and the V would ensnare the wire back into it. The base of the V, or where the hinge is, would be the part thats supported.

I actually did also think of running the wire around the back of the tree, sitting inside a C-shaped steel tubing. That tubing is fixed to the tree, allowing the dog to run around the back of the tree at Point B, but my dog's an idiot and wouldn't go the way i planned.