The Mind of a fisherman
Recently I have been tasked to take multiple water samples from boreholes in regional WA. This included lowering and pulling a bailer about 100 times a day in multiple bores which I did by hand and was a bloody nightmare on my shoulders.
Then to sample from a specific depth meant you had to measure out the wirerope for each bore before starting the process all over again. After a bit of thought and a bit of budget to come up with an alternative I went shopping and after a trip to bunnings and the fishing shop I came up with this combination.
It works a treat and I've been using it for a couple of months. Now I can stand in the middle of the desert and atleast dream about pulling up something from the depth. Keeps me going till I can get back on the water.
PS, I had to run an E-Stop on the cable for obvious safety reasons
big john
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Haha
Nice work and tax deductible.
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Silver Fox
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Date Joined: 19/06/14
That’s pretty damn sweet.
Would love to see the look on your face when it's a depth and there's a knock, knock, wham, followed by line peeling off!.
My wife understands why I clean my rods n reels in the shower....
Chinbald
Posts: 317
Date Joined: 21/02/09
Choice of reel
So many discussions on Tanacom vs Beastmaster and many others. Interested in what you went with and why. Looking out for future for sale adds, electric reel, never seen salt water or caught a fish, travelled 10,000+ km. Great post from the usual.
Gerhard Jacobs
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Date Joined: 04/11/19
Never used a Beastmaster
Never used a Beastmaster so cannot comment on them. Took the Tanacom 1000 as that was available and met all the specs I wanted from it. Been using it multiple times a day in the middle of the desert so imagine a lot of red dust, low quality water on them and rigged with 250kg dyneema line. It gets fairly abused and due to our location I have not serviced it yet. Maximum weight I'm pulling is about 2.5kg so not a lot.
Up to now I had absolutely no issues with it and if I ever get one solely for fishing I would say this will be a good reel to have.
Alpha
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Date Joined: 13/02/17
My first
thoughts as well Big John.. Tax deduction haha. Up there for thinking Cobber.
NORUN NOFUN
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Date Joined: 15/08/11
Haha, used to do something
Haha, used to do something similar for Rio water infrastructure measuring water quality, depths, bacteria and rates of corrosion with camera's. We use to have a winch on the hilux setup to the tripod, but in the end just attached the wire rope to the hilux, simply reverse up or drive forward, we were also a team of 3 so made it pretty easy. Pretty handy having an electric reel but I would be easily distracted to times when deep dropping lol.