Throwline spool

Interesting idea, I guess. But if you mix reeling and side-winding the line either on or off the hoop type you'll "wind up" with a twist in the line for every wrap.

I still think the best system is one of the foldable cubes (the $15 Chinese ones from Sherrill work fantasticly). Unless you're thinking in terms of having a little something with you in the tree?

Glen
 
In hindsight I probably wouldn't have done this but at the time it seemed like a good idea. I took a wire spool and put a post inside a 5 gallon bucket. The spool rides on the rod and dispences the throwline like an open faced fishing reel, when done the spool slips off the rod and you wrap the throwline up on the spool out of the bucket. I have been using this for around 5 years and have had no problems with it
 

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Yo-Yo Style Throwline spool

I have all of my throwlines wound on these kind of 9"
diameter spools:

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They have finger ridges on the inside of one side and the other side is shaped for fast pay-out.

See the site at:
Reels from WindPower

See you at the top,
Dan
 
Re: Yo-Yo Style Throwline spool

Dan,

I thought that you were the one who showed me those spools before.

Do you use Zing-It type throwline or slickline? By coiling the line do you have hockles in the line?

Does the line pay off the spool without snaggles like a fishing reel?
 
When is the last time you got Hockled and Snaggled

One 9" spool has: ZING IT 1.75mm X 180 ft/ 560 lb test/ Yellow/Throwline by Samson

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Sometimes I will feel a hockle or two running thru my fingers during rewind but I find that if I have paid-out the whole coil it will rewind well with very littel attention to hockles. The spool is shaped with one side flat and notched for fingers and the other when laid face up on the ground will let the line pay off fast without any snaggles. I also will pay out about 30 feet of line onto the ground prior to tossing or big shooting the 8 ounce bag.

When time to rewind I can be finished quickly and cleanly.

To hold the line on I use a taro bungee that i knotted one end to form a loop near the end opposite the ball. It secures around the spool and then the little loop threads thru the bag's ring and it is a tidy package.

One the other spool I have coiled optic yellow colored braid dacron fishing line to use as an extention; leave-behind throw string; etc. I used it briefly for throwline but it has too much stretch.

I still will carry my cube for wilderness throws where I can't lay the line on the ground due to vegetation.

Here is another vendor:
Yo-Yo fishing reels


See you at the top,

Dan
 
Re: Less than $2 Throwline spool

Tom,
I remember about five years ago at a seminar I was helping put on, Straun Edwards came up to me and showed me those spools. He called them Australian line reels. They use them for fishing over there. I dont know if he still uses them or not anymore.. They were just a little to big for my liking, but agood idea.

Greg
 
Re: Less than $2 Throwline spool

Anyone wanna see my throwline tarp? I made about a dozen of the things last summer and sold some. They work great, and I find that the throwline almost never comes off the tarp tangled.

Now lets see if I get a call from Tobe. /forum/images/graemlins/bling.gif
 

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