[TowerTalk] EZ-Hang: using a slingshot to place lines in trees

[Peter Chadwick]

 know of one UK ham who made up a contraption with 2 inch diameter scaffold pipe and 3/8 square elastic. The pipe arms went into the ground and he had a winch arrangement to stretch the elastic.......and a trigger arrangement to let it go. He claimed he could line it up, hammer the pipe ends into the ground about a foot to hold it, and put a tennis ball up over 150 feet with quite heavy line - he said the throw was about 5 feet. Bit like a Roman ballista!
I use a bow and arrow and waxed lacing cord for line, bought for $1 per 1000 foot roll in the Dayton flea market. The waxing helps it slide over branches. But I only go to about 40 feet.
73
Peter G3RZP