Poor throwline skills?

[browncow]

Whatever brown, you've just got a big ladder

 

Ha ha, got the best if both worlds, if it doesn't have a ladder in it already then out with the crossbow. I will post up a vid sometime of some of the fire lookout trees we have pruned, big ladder trees

Edited June 25, 2012 by browncow

[finchyo]

Yeah good idea on the fishing line and reel under the bow. Next modification i think. Also can experiment with different weights then too.

 

Yeah it was a bit of fun more than anything but it did work very well. Not many people can say they take a crossbow to work with them lol.

[kentjames]

Anyone got any ideas of websites to source a crossbow suitable for throw line setting? I have a naff aim at the best of times and can see the major advantages of this.

 

Thanks in advance, james

[Rich2484]

Any firearm sort of shop is good. I've got a shop down the road called hobbies. He got everything in there.

 

I went out for first time with throw line other day. Should be an Olympic event.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Christ! How big are these trees you need to get up???

I find my Big Shot to be more than capable and now that I've had it a few months I get the first shot bang on 9/10.

[tree monkey]

it must be a long way to the first branches!

i just climb from branch to branch i find it easier than trying to get your rope as high as possible.

Plus im pants with a throwline so by time ive got it tangled in every tree in a mile radius i could have climbed the tree

[Ewan Murray]

Crossbows come into their own on huge tree's where a big shot will just reach the first limb, with a tiny weight and fishing line it will fly, throwlines are awesome tools and you can come stuck if you only rely on throwing your rope or ladders

 

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[Guest]

I use a trumark slingshot, a 6oz pear lead from Korda and 40lb fishing line. Mega accurate. It only for jobs that are over night to throw too.

 

Edited June 30, 2018 by Guest

[AHPP]

My throwline is builders string and a half pound (probably) ball pein hammer head, thrown by the strongest man on site while the rest of us hide and pray he doesn’t break something. Then I just climb the tree.

 

Good thread. A reminder that loads of us in the UK are shit with throwlines because the trees are generally small and we can climb them in as long as it takes to untangle it from the last failed attempt.

 

[Guest]

21 hours ago, AHPP said:

My throwline is builders string and a half pound (probably) ball pein hammer head, thrown by the strongest man on site while the rest of us hide and pray he doesn’t break something. Then I just climb the tree.

 

Good thread. A reminder that loads of us in the UK are shit with throwlines because the trees are generally small and we can climb them in as long as it takes to untangle it from the last failed attempt.

 

Try that cowboy act on the row of Sequoias a work on every year !!!!