How high can you throw ball?

[treebing]

Part I don't get, now days people show up on the jobsite with 3 bags full of climbing gadgets to do the same thing, a dozen different ways but refuse to use a bigshot or like devise, why? This conversation is akin to discussing why not climb ddr on a tauntline hitch, in a weaver leather saddle wearing highliners. I take that last one back, highliners still rock.

Throwing a throwbag is one of the purest joys my life has apart from my kids. I love it more than the actual climbing. You won't catch me using a gadget to set my liné unless its the sequoias or something.

 

[Jemco]

So what's your style?

One handed over the shoulder?

Two handed between the legs?

Standing on two upside down trash cans?

Jemco

 

[Steve Connally]

After a missed shot I always take bag off. Saves a load of grief.

Me too. I’m good for a 90’ throw. After that I loose any accuracy. I also can’t hit the broadside of a barn under 30’. Funny really. I just can’t set the low throws. Lol

 

[JeffGu]

Throwing a throwbag is one of the purest joys my life...

While reading this, I could hear the theme song for "The Twilight Zone" playing in my head.

 

[islandarb]

While reading this, I could hear the theme song for "The Twilight Zone" playing in my head.

But it is fucking true.....a pure adrenaline rush....when hitting that hard shot first throw.....

 

[JeffGu]

I'll have to take your word for it. On the extremely rare occasions that happens to me, I usually laugh my ass off, knowing perfectly well that the Gods of Cheap Laughs are just fuckin' with me.

 

[SomethingWitty]

I'll have to take your word for it. On the extremely rare occasions that happens to me, I usually laugh my ass off, knowing perfectly well that the Gods of Cheap Laughs are just fuckin' with me.

I imagine practice is hard to come by out there.

 

[owScott]

So you have zero experience in using an APTA yet recommend instead to spend hours every week to gain a degree of its innate ability.

That certainly puts a different spin on "working smart".

Yeah when your at the park practicing your throwball why not practice some hip thrusting on a tauntline hitch also.

 

[owScott]

Throwing a throwbag is one of the purest joys my life has apart from my kids. I love it more than the actual climbing. You won't catch me using a gadget to set my liné unless its the sequoias or something.

Well that's perfectly fine If you are efficient or work for yourself. I personally do not enjoy it. It is part of the job. So I do it the quickest and most efficient way.

 

[RBJtree]

Throwing a throwbag is one of the purest joys my life has apart from my kids. I love it more than the actual climbing. You won't catch me using a gadget to set my liné unless its the sequoias or something.

I hear you on that rush. I am not very good with throwing right now. I was a bit better a few years ago. It is a great feeling to hit that throw! I'll get better. I have been practicing. It's kind of strange to be practicing after being a tree climber for so long.

 

[owScott]

Well there you go. I never realized people enjoyed the throwball so much.

 

[treebing]

Same reason people spend hours at the shooting range or hours at the gym shooting freethrows or even hours throwing rocks at a can. But I get paid to do it! Missing can be frustrating, but that doesn’t happen too much anymore.

 

[Jan_]

Same reason people spend hours at the shooting range or hours at the gym shooting freethrows or even hours throwing rocks at a can. But I get paid to do it! Missing can be frustrating, but that doesn’t happen too much anymore.

Yeah, Throwlining is a sport in itself!

 

[DSMc]

Throwing a throwbag is one of the purest joys my life has apart from my kids. I love it more than the actual climbing. You won't catch me using a gadget to set my liné unless its the sequoias or something.

I'm actually at a loss for words to express how sad that sounds. We as a group can, it appears, randomly select when a "gadget" that advances our potential at work, should be embraced or shunned.

"To each his own"

 

[treebing]

I can understand that you might disagree, but I don’t understand how it sounds sad. Purest joy and sad are opposites.

As for gadgets, I bought a 72 foot spider lift for my treeservice which negates the need for throw balls and rope runners in pretty much most situations. I hate the thing and try to avoid it, letting the crew run it, but damn, it gets the work done and when I try to race it I lose. so I try to get ahead and on to the next job where I can throw my throw line and footlock because those things make me happy.

I also really do appreciate the gadgetry of the big shot and the APTA. I have personally concluded that the Big shot is the better technology and more effective. Even on the sequins or redwoods. I even built my own version of the big shot. I think they are both great tools and a lot of fun but In a place where the trees rarely top 100 feet, Those tools are pretty much overkill.

 

[VenasNursery]

I can understand that you might disagree, but I don’t understand how it sounds sad. Purest joy and sad are opposites.

As for gadgets, I bought a 72 foot spider lift for my treeservice which negates the need for throw balls and rope runners in pretty much most situations. I hate the thing and try to avoid it, letting the crew run it, but damn, it gets the work done and when I try to race it I lose. so I try to get ahead and on to the next job where I can throw my throw line and footlock because those things make me happy.

I also really do appreciate the gadgetry of the big shot and the APTA. I have personally concluded that the Big shot is the better technology and more effective. Even on the sequins or redwoods. I even built my own version of the big shot. I think they are both great tools and a lot of fun but In a place where the trees rarely top 100 feet, Those tools are pretty much overkill.

Why do you dislike your spider lift especially your crew can run it faster than you can climb? (Maybe you were talking about disliking the throw line not your lift)

 

[treebing]

The spiderlift is noisy, and boring. It makes more money than I do with my throwline and footlocking though, so I don’t dislike it in that respect. Luckily, the spiderlift just allows us to get more work done so there are still plenty of crotches for me to throw at.

 

[VenasNursery]

The spiderlift is noisy, and boring. It makes more money than I do with my throwline and footlocking though, so I don’t dislike it in that respect. Luckily, the spiderlift just allows us to get more work done so there are still plenty of crotches for me to throw at.

What model spider lift? I see your from Detroit area we’re in Belleville

 

[treebing]

What model spider lift? I see your from Detroit area we’re in Belleville

Up equip easy lift

 

[moss]

But it is fucking true.....a pure adrenaline rush....when hitting that hard shot first throw.....

When the bag has eyes on a hand throw and just slides through exactly where you want, nothing like it.

I was teaching two young filmmakers climbing basics, they were going to the tropical forest to capture footage of monkeys aloft. I did a demo throw, my usual cradle two-hand style. Decent throw, oohs and ahhs, yeah I'm so cool. One of them was a young man just out of college, fairly tall, medium build on the lean side. He set himself up to throw and let it rip, over the top of an 80+ ft. hardwood, perfect throw. "Dude, first ever throw!!!" My first question to him after the throw, "Did you play sports in high school or college?", "Yes, football, quarterback in high school". Game over. I have noticed that throwing newbies male or female with a sports background of any kind have a better chance of throwing well from the get-go. Whether you've regularly thrown a baseball, disc, football, swung a racket, or baseball bat etc etc. you innately understand that key moment of transferring and focusing energy from body movement to sending a projectile. Doesn't mean that if you have no sports background you won't be able to throw, just means more practice to get there.
-AJ