Thanks for the tips and laughs.
Tom- I like the idea of a line counter for preloading with backing. How much of the spool do you fill w/ backing and what strength do you use compared to the baided?
Others, Red Green would have a full season of inventing at my place as I have “stuff” left from the family farm. I had to chuckle at the apple flinger. As a child, whenever we got in trouble with Mom during late summer or fall, we were sent to the apple trees in the yard to pick up “every last one of them apples” and wheel them over to the pigs.