starwatcher wrote on Mar 10
th, 2010 at 5:47pm:
solotripper wrote on Mar 9
th, 2010 at 6:27pm:
Now this is why using a "leader" of lighter weight line is a good idea when rigging a food line, it breaks before your HEAD does
I have a forty foot pine tree in my front yard that I installed X-mas lights on this year with this method; light-weight leader and rock method. All my neighbors wondered how I did it, they thought I brought in a basket-truck to get them up.
Fortunately, I didn't throw any rocks thru anyone's window.
starwatcher
The weight and rock method has been around for a long time. There's a fine line between a weight heavy enough to go thru some foliage and so light it hangs up and becomes a projectile coming back at the person who is unfortunate enough to be tugging on the rope
I was stationed in Germany 68-70 as a telephone lineman. We were trained to climb poles/trees and string the field phone wires. Slow and in bad weather potentially hazardous to your life.
A guy who had spent his first year in Vietnam showed me how they did it in the REAL world
We stole/borrowed sash weights from the barracks windows. While the other two man teams were climbing trees, we were done with our assignment and looking for the nearest Beer stand
I asked him were he got the idea from? He said in Nam, you climb a tree stringing wire, the Viet Cong snipers get another notch on their butt-stock!
We never told the other guys about are "technique". My Lt. was so impressed with our "work" ethic, he would hold us out of KP/Cleanup duty in case they needed wire strung in a hurry.
When he rotated home, I was a Sgt by then, and broke in my helper the right way. I imagine he did the same?
The beauty of this technique was not only was it fast, when it came time to take down the wire, instead of climbing and cutting ties, we just hooked to electric wire spool and sucked it up like a giant piece of spaghetti
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