Re: Abe\'s Magical Hand Toss
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... wire-wound gems...It's possible to get a fair bit higher if the line can be draped over a nearby limb first to alleviate the line weight a bit on the way up.
Glen
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Speaking of gems! Glen, I never thought of that idea, putting the line up a little higher so the bag doesn't have as much resistance pulling against it on its way up.
How would I actually set this up?
[/ QUOTE ]Thank you; thank you very much. (that sounded like Elvis when I typed it...)
If there's another tree nearby, or another limb on the perimeter of the same tree if out of the line of fire, just drape the line over it first, then make your throw. I discovered it one day practicing out in my yard. It was a little breezy and the line billowed into the adjacent hickory and was draped about 50' up. I was going to retrieve it and thought what the heck... I'd been target-practicing on a 75' crotch in a walnut and was hitting the stem just below it with maddening regularity. The next throw, although off to the right, had to have been 90' with the same effort. It was a little scary, actually.
Jim "Tree Machine" Clark saw me (albeit after too much time) drape the throw line a good 85' in a residential hackberry a short while back. That was a non-redirected throw, out of the Sherrill's economy cube.
Glen
