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There's no diagram or visual of what the heck it was for. Apparently, it launches a lead line over a high tree branch on the end of a tennis ball to hoist up w

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• mungoman2 3y ago
  They do use a fishing line.
• krisoft 3y ago
  > I'm curious why they didn't use fishing line considering it's much lighter. They do: "In the launcher pictured above a Tennis Ball is propelled by compressed air, towing a fishing line over the tree." I don't know where you would even get a wire made out of lead. Sounds like that would need to be ordered/made specially. The only place they mention "lead" is in the context of a lead sinker being attached to the fishing wire. And they reject that approach as not safe enough compared to theirs which is a tennis ball attached to the fishing line.
• ishtanbul 3y ago
  They mean the line “leads” in that its the first one up. Not that it is made of lead metal. They use fishing line as the lead line.