- Location
- healdsburg, CA
Check this out.
the head is a tool rack like for hanging shovels or tools against a wall, bought at Home Depot for 6 bucks.
The tubing is surgical tubing which prob. wont hold up too long but a person could buy the replacement rubbers for the BigShot from a tree care supply store. The pocket is just duct tape and string. The tubing is one piece with the pocket centered in the middle of the tubing.
The pole is a whittled down piece of CA bay laurel. (kind that Fred Flintstone would use)
The hanger is the kind that folds into the upright position when you dont have a tool hanging from it.
The ends of the hanger are coated with rubber from the factory which makes it great for putting the tubing on as their is little cutting action right at the ends of the rods.
What is real interesting (to me anyway) is when you release the throw bag, the hanger will flip around the pole. What happens is the tubing releases the bag in a very very gentle way because the hanger sorta catapolts the bag around as the hanger goes into the folded up position.
when you release the official Big Shot, the tubing whips and snaps, which may reduce the power of the throw. I say this because even using this weak surgical tubing and this set up, this $8.00 big shot really goes a long way up the tree.
In addition, the wide spread of the hanger arms make for real easy aiming, much easier than with the offical big shot.
-posting three pictures
Frans
the head is a tool rack like for hanging shovels or tools against a wall, bought at Home Depot for 6 bucks.
The tubing is surgical tubing which prob. wont hold up too long but a person could buy the replacement rubbers for the BigShot from a tree care supply store. The pocket is just duct tape and string. The tubing is one piece with the pocket centered in the middle of the tubing.
The pole is a whittled down piece of CA bay laurel. (kind that Fred Flintstone would use)
The hanger is the kind that folds into the upright position when you dont have a tool hanging from it.
The ends of the hanger are coated with rubber from the factory which makes it great for putting the tubing on as their is little cutting action right at the ends of the rods.
What is real interesting (to me anyway) is when you release the throw bag, the hanger will flip around the pole. What happens is the tubing releases the bag in a very very gentle way because the hanger sorta catapolts the bag around as the hanger goes into the folded up position.
when you release the official Big Shot, the tubing whips and snaps, which may reduce the power of the throw. I say this because even using this weak surgical tubing and this set up, this $8.00 big shot really goes a long way up the tree.
In addition, the wide spread of the hanger arms make for real easy aiming, much easier than with the offical big shot.
-posting three pictures
Frans
