Marsh Pig Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Just found a load of ally tent poles on my inlaws scrapheep. Spent the afternoon makeing a 40ft lofting pole out of them, works a treat. Cheap and simple way to ad anougher dimention to your decoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) How are they with a bird on the end , Ive got bought ones and always like a Billy Smarts circus act to get them up with a cpl of decoys on it on my own in a breeze. Edited March 3, 2012 by deny essex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Somebody on here that shall remain nameless bought a set and they worked a treat. Only problem was getting them down in the wind as mentioned. He had to shoot the branches off to get his deeks back He cut the neck off a plastic bottle and taped it to the end of the poles to act as a guide for the weight on the bottom of the hanger and reckons they are now the nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 lesson learned there methinks if it goes in the tree,how do u get it out without blowing oles init Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegasus bridge Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 i adapted a funnelwhich attached to the end of the lofting pole - makes it a lot easier to get them back out of the tree, i found they broke if they fell more than 6 ft - but this fix worked http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/86832-lofting-decoys-breaking/page__p__742524__hl__%2Bdecoys+%2Bbreaking__fromsearch__1#entry742524 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caeser Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 My lofting poles are actually a fishing pole bought second hand from the big auction site. Amazingly light, 13 meters. Got it for peanuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Pig Posted March 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 How are they with a bird on the end , Ive got bought ones and always like a Billy Smarts circus act to get them up with a cpl of decoys on it on my own in a breeze. poles i made worked a treat with a bird on the end i also made the rig to balance the decoy on the branches out of some 4mm wire which cost just over 3quid and some old lead i had laying around. After i lofted the decoys up i use an attachment on the lofting pole to put a floating decoy on the top so i can put this 25 to 30ft in the air so it looks like a bird is coming to land in the tree. It works well. I might even take it out when i go decoying and set it in a tree nearby just to see what it pulls in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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