This evening we made this. It’s a very simple tackle and pulley…but since there are no blocks (pulley wheels), I am not sure that this can be called a tackle and pulley. It functions in the same way. We tired rope around two trees and made a loop off each bit of rope on the two trees. Then we threaded a long piece through the loop of both trees and then tied the two end together. So, now to get the ‘flag’ from one end to the other, you pull one side of the rope and it glides (rather roughly though) through the loops and delievers the ‘flag’ to the other end. We’re going to go out tomorrow with a basket and fill it up with pine cones at the bottom tree and send it up.
We originally went outside to ‘make a fort’. We had rope, scissors and a tarp. Elijah ended up not being happy with any of our fort designs and announced that what he’d really like is an easy way to get things from the top of the hill to the bottom and back up again. Tada! However, I am thinking about actually buying some real parts to make this work with less effort.
It was fun never the less and we ended up watching some really cool YouTube videos and studied up on pulleys a little bit.
Eureka! (I LOVE Canadian television from way back when)
Columbian Villagers
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