Floating anchor for lowering rope retrieval

[Rupe]

one splash makes many ripples little grass hopper:001_tt1:

now that i understand it's simplicity, yes i've done it before, but have never controlled it from the tree before. similiar to a control line on a speedline, not always needed but when it is, vital. i like it. keep it simple keep it sweet.

 

i also thought a floating anchor was when you tension a line between two distant forks of a tree, and set a pulley on the central part of the line(or where ever most convenient).

 

That would be the true definition of a floating anchor.

 

What we have been discussing above is more like a drift line system.

[mistahbenn]

Ok I need to have a floating rope retriever. I read somewhere about using a tennis ball with 2 slits cut in, put lowering rope through the slits, and above your timberhitch/clovehitch, with a carabiner above the ball, then an appropriate length of rope attached. Has anyone tried this method? The rope must obviously be as long as the how far the lowering point distance is away. Make sense?