Awesome Beacon Tower Pioneering Build

[@davenik1999]

Maybe someone will have tips on how to improve the tower, but the cheerleading routine was FLAWLESS! Definitely took the video from a nine to an eleven! 👏👏👏👏

[@HelicoolsHelipad]

The cheerleading routine was act of frustration to let the "energy" out in a positive way... even though it was a little sarcastic rant. 😀 Lessons learned for sure, though.

[@281covfefe5]

Looks like interesting chnnl ! The tower was awesome ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@HelicoolsHelipad]

Thank you! I swing back and forth between Boy Scout related bushcraft and military surplus LMTV's. The main focus is entertainment... with some how-to know-how thrown in. Thanks for stopping by! Subscriber comments are always welcome... if you don't mind, please let your friends know about the channel. We are half way to our goal! Many blessings.

[@willowryan2308]

Dave, this is such an inspiring video. I want to come play at your house 😄 If I would have known the Boyscouts taught making rope, lashing and erecting a tower, I would have started a petition to join. This is so cool!!! I would love to build a half size tower in my yard. I learned so much from your tutorials. 👍🏼

[@traxoffgrid]

That tower is so cool.love it

[@PMVINOD]

👍

[@TroopLeader]

First of all, I LOVE your Scout spirit, ingenuity and resourcefulness! (Good to see in your recent videos you're frapping your Japanese Mark II Square Lashings.) FYI, It's been concluded that more than 2 fraps are superfluous, hence in Scouting, we officially teach three wraps and two fraps, troopresources.scouting.org/square-lashing/ and there are all kinds of additional techniques to making the lashing extra tight and secure. In your video, on your diagonal brace, the diagonal lashing is actually only called for when two spars cross but don't touch, as in the X-brace of a trestle. With the traditional diagonal lashing, it's the timber hitch that initially serves to spring the two poles together, and as pointed out by a long-time director of the pioneering area at the national and jamboree, your "Japanese Square Lashing can accomplish the same result. When building pioneering structures, a square lashing is called for when joining two poles that cross at angles between 90 and 45º. Diagonal lashings work, but square lashings provide more surface area between the ropes and poles. One more thing I observed while enjoying your video: when finishing a lashing with a clove hitch (tripod lashing, traditional round lashing, shear lashing, the "other" square lashing) it's always easier to treat the clove hitch as two half hitches, which, in actuality, is what a clove hitch is-two identical half hitches around an object. Unless I'm missing something, any way you slice it, your approach as described in your really fun video, ends up still bringing the running end under the "X"-the way it's still currently presented in the handbook, and no matter what, the finished clove hitch is still going to be two half hitches. There's a reason for pioneering it's taught as illustrated in this video: troopresources.scouting.org/half-hitches-and-lashings/-much less muss and fuss, and much easier to cinch the half hitches up tight against the wraps. Finally, I'd love to make your acquaintance. (Onward and upward, Larry Green)

[@TroopLeader]

In my previous comment, I screwed up the link to the half hitches and lashings video. Here it is: troopresources.scouting.org/half-hitches-and-lashings/

[@mildmammosschanel7716]

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[@HelicoolsHelipad]

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[@pietropacucci5751]

Td,,,

[@HelicoolsHelipad]

Touch down with a two point conversion? Oh yeah!

[@jimthode]

Ok, you made me look. You did no really "make the rope" with lawn mower parts. You made tool to made the rope with lawn mower parts and made the rope with twine.

[@HelicoolsHelipad]

Yes, that's right. Perfect logic. :-D Now, if I would have said I made the rope "from" lawn mower parts, that would be untrue. But making the rope "with" lawn mower parts was in fact true... as you found out. You had a very cool unicycle vid a week ago. I like seeing local talent. Thanks for stopping by... hope you are well and were able to use the antifreeze from PARTriSha.