« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4

Author Topic: Your tillering tree  (Read 20910 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Knoll

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,016
  • Mikey
Your tillering tree
« on: January 02, 2015, 02:58:37 pm »
I've made a few bows and look forward to many more.  Been using a tillering stick to date, but got bopped on the noggin a few days ago.  That brought me to my senses and am now figuring out where in my crowded garage/shop to setup a tillering tree.

It would be useful to read the considerations/descriptions and see the tillering tree setups ya'll are using.

Thanks!!
Logged
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857

Offline Sidmand

  • Member
  • Posts: 302
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2015, 04:11:26 pm »
Here is a pic of mine.  The top hanger is a 3 dollar hose hook from harbor freight, with some nylon webbing straps from a couple old carseats I had laying around.  Big copper bar from a box at work (work for the power company).  You can't see it, but down at the bottom I have a pully and I have another on the scale.  Just a yardstick hung on a nail behind it all to measure the length.  I think the whole setup cost 10 bucks and about an hour or so of my time.  I made it after taking a thump from one I broke on the tiller stick.
Logged
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." --> Aristotle

Offline huisme

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,036
  • I'm Marc, but not that Marc.
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2015, 04:39:31 pm »
I've been going completely off brace and set for a couple months but usually I use a mirror and a bow scale in my hand to know how far to draw. I plan on setting up a pully tree when I'm back in my shop for the really long draws I've done but mostly I plan on sticking with the mirror and scale.
Logged
50#@26"
Black locust. Black locust everywhere.
Mollegabets all day long.
Might as well make them short, save some wood to keep warm.

Offline Del the cat

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,297
    • Derek Hutchison Native Wood Self Bows
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2015, 04:46:09 pm »
I have a removable winch (a block board mount) which I can use on mine, but I seldom do except for warbows.
I added a second pulley to give me 2:1 advantage making it easier to pull bows.Some pics here:-
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/tiller-improvements.html
Some detail pics here:-
http://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/copper-archer-has-bow.html
Del
Logged
Health warning, these posts may contain traces of nut.

Offline osage outlaw

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,952
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2015, 05:37:30 pm »
Here is mine.  Its a simple double pulley design.  The grid helps me but drives Pearly nuts. 

Logged
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2015, 06:17:57 pm »
Stupid grid...............

Logged
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline osage outlaw

  • Member
  • Posts: 11,952
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2015, 06:46:28 pm »
Clean your shop floor and then we can talk grid removal Pearly
Logged
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2015, 10:54:39 pm »
Here's my set up...
Logged

Offline Knoll

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,016
  • Mikey
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2015, 11:28:54 pm »
Thanks so much, fellas! 
This'll be next project when I get over this $!(* flu/cold, whatever it is.
Logged
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,530
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2015, 11:32:17 pm »
This is my tiller tree. It is bolted to the block wall. The bar clamp is if I need it to stabilize an unbraced bow.

   

All you need is a block of wood, a pulley, an "S" hook and about 10' of nylon rope. How hard could that be.  ;)
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline Will H

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,120
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2015, 11:46:24 pm »
Here's mine
Logged
Proud Member of Twin Oaks Bowhunters
           Clarksville, Tennessee

   "Middle Tennessee is the place to be"

Offline chamookman

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,991
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2015, 04:20:32 am »
I think Will is the winner  O:)! Bob
Logged
"May the Gods give Us the strength to draw the string to the cheek, the arrow to the barb and loose the flying shaft, so long as life may last." Saxon Pope - 1923.

Offline Del the cat

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,297
    • Derek Hutchison Native Wood Self Bows
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2015, 05:44:34 am »
Quote from: chamookman on January 03, 2015, 04:20:32 am
I think Will is the winner  O:)! Bob
Or he would be if he could hold the camera straight ;) ::) ;D
Del
Logged
Health warning, these posts may contain traces of nut.

Offline HoorayHorace

  • Member
  • Posts: 110
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2015, 08:58:01 am »
I draw and take self video or photo.

I use my big game dial scale for checking the final poundage though.
Logged

Offline Will H

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,120
Re: Your tillering tree
« Reply #14 on: January 03, 2015, 09:46:12 am »
That's the first time I've noticed that del. I went back through my pics and all of em are like that  ::)

Oops, oh well :)
Logged
Proud Member of Twin Oaks Bowhunters
           Clarksville, Tennessee

   "Middle Tennessee is the place to be"
Pages: [1] 2 3 4
« previous next »