What is the Sherrill Tree Golden Retriever?

[ATH]

The Legendary Line Tamer!!!
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It needed to be midline attachable, for some reason never needed replacement rollers that came with it.

I cut a slit in the top and it was midline attachable. I used it quite a bit...but doy any more. It just doesn't take that much time to do by hand

 

[ghostice]

Years ago - remember Gerry Beranek's throw line hand crank-o-tronik in one of his DVD's or books or something? Bow-fishing line retreiver and a plastic plumbing bend and some tape. Not midline attachable mind you, but it works. Is it faster than over the shoulder into the throw cube? Dunno. Would an electric motor improve things? Probably, esp. if it had enough umph to drag the line and throw bag out of the tree and over a lawn and was midline attachable. Still in my bag though. But most days it's just hand flaking straight into a cube.

 

[flushcut]

We have to keep in mind that those guys were just as intelligent as we are, but there was so much that nobody alive at the time had figured out yet.

Yeah but those guys could get stranded on the south pole and survive. I highly doubt the same can be said today.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

That is similar to the boxes that sailors in the days of old stored shot lines in to shoot messenger lines from ship to ship at sea.

Flaking box

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Lyle gun - Wikipedia

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On a trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina I stopped at a museum of the US Life-Saving Service. They had a flaking box and cannon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Life-Saving_Service

 

[Reach]

Flaking box

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Lyle gun - Wikipedia

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On a trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina I stopped at a museum of the US Life-Saving Service. They had a flaking box and cannon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Life-Saving_Service

Thank you! I could not remember the name of that box for anything. I’ve seen a demo of a shot fired by a Lyle gun; it was in Mystic Seaport probably 20 years ago. I would not want to be in front of that thing if the shot went low!

 

[Winchman]

I'd like to know if they removed the pins from the flaking box before making the shot. Seems like anything touching the fast-moving line would lead to problems.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Yes...the flaking box was filled and stored with the pins installed. When it was time to shoot the 'bottom' was up and pulled off leaving a mat of flaked rope.

Do some video searching to see the rope flake off. Pretty cool to see line being shot ship to ship on rough oceans.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I stumbled on a couple of pics

 

[Winchman]

I can imagine a way to do it, but it's hard to justify the time to carefully put the line on the pegs for each launch when I'll go thirty or more shots without a tangle doing what I do now, and most tangles only take a couple minutes to straighten out. The guys on the ships could have lives on the line when they made a shot, so they couldn't take chances. Completely different circumstances.

This LuckyLauncher video from 2013 briefly shows a retriever stuffing the line in a bottle.

 

[Colin1234567]

Found this flaking box at a tiny museum at Painted Rocks in the UP this past summer. I had never seen one before. Pretty ornate.