If you get one string out at a time it can't possibly take more than an hour.

I find that drinking mid strength beer can be really beneficial but rum can sometimes lead to string rampage.

(like what you said with it nearly going in the bin)

Cut em off and put it in the tree for the birds!! Good luck!

dafish said..
As long as you do not detach the bar from the kite it shouldn't take more than 10 15 minutes. They are just loops on loops and will all fluff out. However, if you take them off the kite and do them one at a time that nest is a two beer minimum operation. We have all been there.

I do something similar, but I only take one line off the kite at a time, thread that one through and reattach it. Works really well.

This was my mates bar after he left it behind. Found it down the creek the next day haha

A mate of mine in a fit of rage after a very bad session with an intense "birds nest" threw his bar and lines in the bin. I pulled it from the bin, opened a beer and sat down to begin the untangling, it took about an hour and was sorted. I charged him a 6 pack for the job.

This was in the very early days ~2001 He never went back to kiting but it did galvanise his love of windsurfing ;-)

DM

eppo said..
And I bet all the lines were white back then DM.

Absolutely. Pre "Kook proof" connectors too

Once you learned to kite and untangled a bar, the any thing in life that's tangled bad is a easy. Phone cords, cables it's all too easy.

It's the one skill kiting has taught me.

Thanks Christian for the tip . I just winded the lines up on the bar that day and chucked it in the car and grabbed a another bar that's why it got so tangled . We only get a short time to kite the seabreeze here can't waste it untangling lines.

weebitbreezy said..
Makes me feel blessed. Had to detach my lines as they were tangled around my feet during the swim back to shore. Left them in the garage and came home the next day to find my wife had gotten bored during the day and untangled them for me.

Untangled some of mine while the misses was wandering around out the back. Got told I was doing it wrong so I let her at em, job done.

... reckon this dude takes tangled lines to next level,,, Louis Tapper,,,

Puetz said..
... reckon this dude takes tangled lines to next level,,, Louis Tapper,,,

Probably a reasonable example of where detaching lines before untangling is acceptable

Cab recalled those lines so it would have a case of taking them back to a shop and getting a new set.

bjw said..
Once you learned to kite and untangled a bar, the any thing in life that's tangled bad is a easy. Phone cords, cables it's all too easy.

It's the one skill kiting has taught me.

PHONE CORDS!?!?!?! ITS 2017 MATE!

The idea of keeping the lines attached sounds logical, but in a major tangle it makes no difference.

Certainly if it's just a bit tangled then teasing the tangles out in place will work and it might help to leave the lines attached. Even then, if the bar or kite has gone through the lines then it can be difficult to clear the tangles and work out which line belongs where.

Once it's a major bird's nest then all you can do is bite the bullet and tackle the task slowly and methodically and patiently.

My technique is to simply take a single line, find the end, trace it to a loop or knot. Clear the end. Repeat.

When you clear the end you need to walk it out straight and keep an eye on it so it can't get tangled again.

Keep repeating until that line is clear then set it aside and repeat for the next line.

As you extract a line, the others get exponentially faster to untangle. There's simply less lines to be tangled.

I usually do this on the driveway at home, or on the grass at the beach. I've done it a few times in the living room with the lines down the hallway. It's not hard to do. It's simple repetition and patience.

eppo said..
And I bet all the lines were white back then DM.

And there was only 2?

And on 4 line kites, if you do one at a time, you only have 3 to do, one done, 33% done, 2 and you are nearly done at 2/3rds....

Old topic I know, but here's a very old photo of a mate of mine up in Cairns