Topband: The Slingshot Option..need distance not height

[Herb Schoenbohm]

On 10/18/2010 6:01 PM, Larry Pasman wrote:
> I broke down and got the pneumatic launcher kit. The velocity is low enough
> the fishing line comes off the reel smoothly and yet puts a tennis ball with
> some sand in it right where I want it and will come down from the tree with
> no problem. With about 50 psi it will send the tennis ball over the biggest
> Oak trees I have and the ball will do no damage to whatever it may hit. The
> best part is I can send my Labrador retriever after the ball when it lands
> in the lake or elsewhere. He retrieves the ball with the line still intact,
> I then pull up the stronger lines as needed.

I need to put a Beverage over an area that is flat but full of 
implementable brush of weeds, tan tan, cacha, and cactus.  A Brush Hog 
would be great to cut a path but actually the brush would keep a wire at 
least 5 feet above ground if I could get across it.   About 750 feet 
down range is a clearance for the termination etc...but is there anyway 
to get a wire 750 feet down wind?  100 feet up is one thing but can 
anything launch a fishing line with a down range distance of 750 feet.  
Which device would have the greatest thrown power to make this 
horizontal distance.

I have even considered renting one of the islands sightseeing 
helicopters for a few minutes to pull the wire.

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
St. Croix, VI


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