Rope Swing

Ian Flatters

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So we went up these to 80-85ft wellies and decided to make a rope swing at 70ft . We made it self leveling and got a swing length of 40m, on the 1st two pendulums you got a bit of off the line time. Great fun, high winds and snow.

Hope you enjoy

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Here is one I set up for some friends a while back:

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Hey everyone, glad you enjoyed it.

So we climbed the 2 trees and threw throwlines out to pull the line up. Already on the line was a tandam pull linked to a isc paw rigging plate the 2 crabs to a skywalker pulley which had the swing line through so we could get up and down when being dragged. Lines pulled up to just abouve 70ft, one end locked off with a running bowline and the other with a gri gri.

First launches were staright pulls but we found we could gain another 10m by making the line longer. So we added a pulley around the tree and this also allowed us to gun it in reverse a bit more.

We also found keeping the pull line low on the out and using a combination of pulling forward and the spring of the rope gave us a 3 second free fall area. We measured up so uor heads were 5cm off the ground so you get the rush of thinking your going to hit.
 
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Weve been putting our head together and have worked out a way to get even higher!! Were going to set a high pulley and a low pulley on a tree the opposite side to what we were pulling from this should easily get us to around 45-50ft before we well scream like little girls.
 
Here is a short clip of a V-Style Rope Swing my friends and I set up yesterday.

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I wish we had a truck back in the woods!
 
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