shaggin buddy

**Donnie** · 25th May 08, 06:09 AM

Holy smoke, you got my attention!

**IrishGodfather** · 25th May 08, 06:44 AM

Wow, that's inventive. I want to get into Highland athletics, might need to build meself one of those too. Oh, and nice title, really woke me up seeing that.

**Alan H** · 25th May 08, 11:23 AM

That's a GREAT idea. I can hoist my 12-footer no problem, but I know already that hoisting the 15 is going to be problematic for the exact same reasons you just explained. That's a *great* solution!.

**Arizona Scot** · 25th May 08, 11:51 AM

Really cool idea, haven't had that problem yet mainly because I don't have a caber yet. Now I know what to do as soon as I get one.

**Yaish** · 26th May 08, 08:58 AM

The only thing I might suggest as an alteration, would be to remove the wood platform under the caber itself. That way after you stand the caber you can kick the 'buddy' out of the way and perform the pick in the normal way.

**warwick** · 28th May 08, 11:57 AM

i was going to call it a caber caddie but i had a mental image of some poor guy carrying a bag full cabers... so i called it a shaggin buddy which just fits for all the obvious reasons

thanks for the comments... self inflected injury definitely gets the creative juices flowing

i built the "buddy" with the platform because i thought the weight of the caber would help keep it planted. the buddy works better than i thought so i should be able to cut the platform out and the buddy should still be planted solid.

how it works now is i shagg the caber up right... then pick the caber up off the platform... then i bend down and pick the buddy up and toss it to the side... then i take a few seconds to breath and settle my mind before squatting down for the pick. i know it sounds like a lot of steps/work but its not that bad and i have no other options.

ETA: i used 2 1/2" screws for the botom "spikes" not 4" screws

**Yaish** · 28th May 08, 12:24 PM

The spikes still look plenty respectable.

I'd be afraid that around here with our hard ground from lack of rain the spikes wouldn't bite though.

I only usually practice caber when I have someone else around though, so it hasn't been a problem I've needed to find a solution for.

I did build a similar rig before as a WOB standard. It's since been disassembled and destroyed, and I don't have any pictures unfortunately.

It was a cross frame of 2x4's with a hole drilled to accept an EMT conduit as an upright. Two identical rigs made up the kit with a piece of PVC on a string as the crossbar. Rather than screws out the bottom I used metal tent pegs that went through holes drilled in the wood.

It worked for a while until too many weight landed on it and broke all the pieces. This is a somewhat destructive sport we've entered into brothers.