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You know, you can't get so called players to get up to the plate.

To Me this date remembers me of Friday the 1`3th in port dover, Canada!

You know!, Cuz you know!

I love flying kites, but people really die in western ny winters.

For the most part,? My usual next kite has already been bought, but there is only one kite/set of kites that I keep letting slip by, are a few 75' octopus kites from emma kites in china. There was too much color to choose from, but 2 colors will fit my sky just fine.

At least share the info of the knots and loops!

No Mark, I'm not in. I'm enjoying what you are doing, I thought of being in but I got stuck of what I would want to hand over as a Karma if I was to win. Holy Crap, what would I karma after your kite? You know I would try to top it! If I wanted anything if I did win would be the dimensions of your French Bridle.

All I know is, snow is snow, and sometimes flying kites isn't part of snow, in my part of nys. In real life that is!

Paul? If you get into algebra tests, even Jethro Bodine understood, ought from ought equals ought! But how many kite flyers actually understand the actual facts you share? You share inspiration, but not so many facts.

Rob, I looked from here, but from GWTW is much easier to watch, but what is being seen, lacks. Must be there must be?!

This is a topic worth talking about! I'm not into good or bad, I'm just into. Karma, that is. I hope someone wins Mark's great offering! Actually, We didn't even have Karma when I was a kid. We had "Wait 'til you dad gets home"!

Check with INTO THE WIND, they are supporters here, and they sell it by the yard in black and white, you need a yard of each and a dull needle, ah, the guitar high E-string works too.

All and all, my mostly used method, is the method of winding from the 2nd post's video back on page 1 in this topic, and is the only method I would suggest to others. I don't understand the whys of using 2 winders for 1 kite!

I think, if you're having a blast with your kite, you can't ask for too much more than a blast. Maybe buy the other stuff that goes with flying kites.

1.Take out of bag 2. spread apart 3. unwind. 4. Fly. 5. Wind 6. bring the kites together. 7. put back in bag. The lines and handles stay connected to the stack always. But these are 240# 76' lines not use for other kites.

You don't need to mess with your leaders yet, you just need time on the lines for now. Your flying just as good as any one of us our first few times out, things will fall into place at the right time.

Paul is referring to the method of wrapping your lines directly to the pair of handles, instead of a card, when wrapping the lineset you wrap around the handles but only on the foam part of the handles working your way to the kite, as you wrap, you wind from the top of the foam to the bottom of the foam, once you get to the bottom you work your way back up to the top like a spool or fishing reel until you get close enough to the kite then set the handles down to remove the lines from the kite one side at a time, pairing the tops and bottoms as usual, once the lefts and rights are paired off, finish winding the lineset onto the handles, as you finish winding you finish near the top of the foam then force the ends of the lines between the to handle's 2 foam grips. When winding stop about 1/2" from the top of the foam each time your get near the top and start back in the other direction, leave the 1/2" of foam at the top to tuck the ends of your lines into. You don't want to wrap onto the metal as you can't tuck the ends of your lineset between the foam to secure the lines. When you unwind during setup it's reverse of what you did during breakdown, you pull out 8' to 10" of line from the handles, attach the lines to the kite and unwind the rest of the line and you should be ready to fly. I've seen this method used mostly on sand. I do have one setup like this but the lines did pop out of the foam, looks like a bit of a mess and needs to be carefully unwound. All my other linesets/4 lines are wound onto one card from the kite to the handles at the stake, handles stay on the card. povlhp......Every year or so I'll switch my lines from end to end as the wear point/where the 4 lines contact each other when flying, is closer to the handles than the kite, more often I'll switch tops to bottoms maybe twice a year, but never worry about switching lefts to rights as that happens whenever.

In some places the ground is still too soft at 18". I can drill 36" down and in some places water starts pouring out!

Rob! Just be careful out there. You was flying at 27 degrees below freezing, freezing H2O, lately I've seen 50 and heard of 60, 70 and almost 80 degrees below freezing h2o, in NY.

Sounds like a nice classic kite! With the info you're bringing with the kite, it's about a feeling of what's right without snapping or tearing, get to the closest original shape/aerodynamics this cody, there's a dihedral thing going on with the cody kites that I'm not smart at, but there is pictures that can help you make the shape look like what it should flying without breaking pieces.

Looking at the bridle you will need to add about 8" of pigtail to the top using modern line sets. But also looking in the picture at the handles and lineset on the wooden winder it is probably set to fly as it is, the longer lines on the wooden winder will go on the top/forward. I have a rev1 the same colors and probably the same era if yours have the 4 piece end caps. They are fun to fly, to me they fly slow and graceful.

Try to find a nicer grass area if you can, linesets can get expensive. Maybe you can change the tow point a little closer towards the nose. I get wind here that sometimes sends my kites over the top.

Those Bond steel stakes sounds like the right thing, what kind of length and diameter are being used? The 100 packs seem reasonable. I don't think I'll do 50 large kites at once though.

I can't dig up my yard to get to clay, that would be a messy mowing next time. I have a posthole driver on my tractor, but that is hash too. I like the eye-anchors, but need to remove them daily for mowing. I'm the only maintainer for this kites in the air. And drive my mower from kite to kite to get them back flying.

I agree too, however, I'm looking for extreme cold gloves, My top brands failed within 1/2 hour at 2 degrees f, those was cabelas pinnicle mittens, the gloves did the same thing after 1/2 hr @ 7+, I checked my lpg level but the tank was way over my knees but I keeped trudging through the road plowed snow. It's all about nerve damage and the frostbite, the Menzalla gloves I wanted are sold out for th9is season. I'm happy with waiting until April or May for my first kite fly. There is some heavy changes coming this week in weather, I already had 150" of snow this season, Not more place for new show. I'll look at kite forums instead of trudging through hip deep snow. -4f and throwing another log on the fire/boiler.