Re: [nznog] Temporary fibre cable across Wanganui river near Harihari - anybody got photos?

We could run it at the basin reserve since they're planning to build a bridge over it anyway - presumably to preserve our eyes from the spectacle that is New Zealand cricket Sent from my iPhone On 5/01/2013, at 6:05 AM, Hamish MacEwan wrote:

On 3 January 2013 22:11, Richard Naylor wrote:

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Come to NZNOG-13 and buy me a beer and I'll tell you how it was made. These days I'm a little more elegant and carry a bow and arrow, with fishing line, but its really not as good as a throw line and only really good at blasting through trees.

In the old days (before helicopters were cheap to hire), power boards got cables across rivers, gullys and valleys etc using rockets with a draw line.

Sounds like the outline of a premier competitive activity at that same NZNOG 2013.

The Richard "Rockets, Bows & Throws" Naylor Cable Toss Cup?

(The parallels with the caber are clear: "It is said to have developed from the need to toss logs across narrow chasms to cross them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss)

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