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Title: Tiller Tree
Post by: Thaihunter on January 04, 2008, 12:32:00 PM

Anyone have a good plan for one?  Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: varmint on January 04, 2008, 12:34:00 PM

Check the "how to" section,there's a plan for one there.

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: George Tsoukalas on January 04, 2008, 05:16:00 PM

There's one on my site. The one I use is portable. All you need is some wall space. Make the shelf for the bow at eye level. Attach a pulley below the shelf -about 3 ft or so below. A stout string attaches to the bow with a clip of some sort, runs through the pulley and is held in your hand. You can make a loop to hold. You can attach a spring scale to the loop. I use  Hanson Hand held scale. The weight registers and stays. See Bow Making Directions on my site. Jawge
 http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni/archer.html

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: Thaihunter on January 06, 2008, 08:11:00 AM

Thank you to both

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: threeundr on January 06, 2008, 09:01:00 AM

Joe, I have a friend named Sam Harper. He has a great website for beginning boyers. Here is his web address:  http://www.geocities.com/salampsio/index.html  
If you scroll down to the place that says: Red Oak board bow build along and click that. Then go to page 6 and it will give you instructions on building a tillering tree. I just built one a little over a week ago. There are many good resourses and links on Sam's web page. Best of of luck with your endeavors.

          -Leonard-

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: Glenn Newell on January 06, 2008, 03:24:00 PM

Thaihunter, when you make a tiller tree it's best to make one that holds the bow where your hand will be on the bow and most importantly the string is drawn from the same position where you will draw the bow from. I don't like tiller sticks as the bow is placed centre of the stick  and pulled down from the centre of the tiller stick, which defeats the purpose because when you draw the bow from your normal shooting position which will be different because it is not physical possible to shoot a bow from that position you will pull the bow out of tiller straight away.
The tiller tree will allow to replicate the bow hand position and the drawing position and see the true tiller of the bow when you draw it...Glenn...

Title: Re: Tiller Tree
Post by: Dano on January 06, 2008, 05:46:00 PM

Here's some plans Tim Flood made.

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/tillertree.jpg)