Singing Tree Rope Wrench

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if you like, you could use a taught line with a 16 strand split tail...

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Hmmm...haven't heard of that hitch - is it new? I'll give it a try today, high and fast!

Also considering using a rope made out of a fiber I've never heard of - manila - anybody tried this yet?
 
Although as said before its very much dependant upon rope configuration and material, has ther been a avg length you have been using for your tether? It seems that distance would dictate or alter the engagement of the wrench. Will the wrench always engage or does it sometimes need to be set manually before decent.

As said several times, well done. This shows definite potential.
 
I have a lot of Hickory and that is what I have been making most of them out of. I am also going to try ash and cherry and walnut. I have high hope for the ash, it doesnt seem to be as splitty as the hickory. The tether length doesnt make too much of a difference. I have mine a lot shorter than what I used for the f8 revolver system. The tool actually doesnt ever see very much of a load. I think it is very difficult to break, My bigger question is to see how the heat and the rope wears the wood. Hickory seems to just get a nice burnish and wears better than aluminum in my experience.
 
Elm would seem to be good choice also, and beech is very hard once it drys out. I once had a beech milled into boards, and the boards were too hard to drive a nail without bending the nails
 
I would not use cherry or walnut, I tried both in my bow days, unless backed with glass or something, they are quite brittle.

ash is a good choice too.

Osage would be the toughest and it is a bright yellow, darkening to a beautiful burnt orange/brown over time.
 
Very cool idea, Bing, congratulations!

Dogwood might be good too, if it is common near you. I believe the colonists used it in spinning wheels for a part that took alot of beating.
 
Very cool. You answered the problem with srt..and that is being able to ascend easily. The others took a lot of motions to lets say get back from a limb walk. Congrats on your new innovation/invention. I may think about SRT now.

I also have a thought. If the tether was solid would it act the same? I ask this because if you grab the rope wrench above and pull down can you still descend or since it is srt is your hitch pretty much locked (100% weight on the hitch).
 
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Cocobolo, Kevin...now that is a dense, hard frikkin' wood!

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could that be a "that's what she said" moment?

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maybe......
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had some coco longbows too, best one was cocobolo, with osage and maple lams in the riser, maple core, osage limbs, called her Harmony, what a bow that was.
 
mine is a howard hill coco and bamboo with carbon backing. do you still shoot? I saw that you made your own. I have tried that, not as good as some of the other bowyers out there. Besides tree climbing trad archery is my other obsession!!
 
never made laminated bows, just self and backed selfbows.

trad bowhunting rocks :)


mine were made by a friend of mine at Mississippi Lake Longbow here in Ontario.
 
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