Caber questions.

[neo71665]

Simple - you just chuck it up in your lathe, decide how much taper you want, and....




Phil

Yeah, doesn't everybody have a lathe that will go out to 20 feet in their shop

[Kilted KT]

you can also call the phone company and see if they have any used telephone poles they don't need.

[neo71665]

you can also call the phone company and see if they have any used telephone poles they don't need.

It seems like a good idea but from what I've been around most of the time when they get around to replacing them the center is rotted out of it. The pressure treatment only goes in so far and being out in the weather there aint much they can do better unless they use concrete poles and those are $$$$.

[Dirka Skene]

How heavy are cabers?

[Raptor]

depends. most of the ones I've seen in comps are 19' & 56kg

Another way around your problem re turning it down is to make a weighted fibreglass one for practice. I've thrown one & it's quite good, if a little funny from a balance point of view

[Yaish]

Telephone poles probably wont work. At their thin end, they are thicker than a caber at its thickest end, plus the outer surface of the wood is nasty with splinters and impregnated tar.

The best is just finding a tree, or calling a lumber company (lumber as in cutting down trees, not lumber as in Home Depot building dept.) and asking to have one cut. I think average price is about $10 a foot.

[Alan H]

A super-lightweight caber is probably 60 pounds and 15-16 feet long. The novices at Woodland apparenlty used a 55 pounder last year. The BigGuys in mens "A" and the pro classes hereabouts toss 18 footers that weigh around 120 pounds.

There is no "standard" caber. It's just a stick...a felled tree, hopefully barked and dried, trimmed down to 'about the right size". I understand that the local judges pick a caber for a competing group that they think that 1/4 - 1/3rd of the group will be able to end-for-end. They choose that days caber out of whatever supply they have on hand.

[beowulf67]

At the Huntsville games a few years back, the pro's and Super A's had a monster caber made from a telephone pole. They cut the taper into it with a chainsaw then smoothed it out. I think it was around 150-160 lbs.