On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 10:06:48 PM UTC-6, 2G wrote:
On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 7:41:44 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Not to mention the amount of time it takes to teach some lackadaisical ground Ops crew how to do it.

Explaining it to you would take a couple of hours: I would do it myself and be done in a minute.

I gotta agree with Tom here. This is really a pretty slick way of doing it.. And it is really handy to store and transport a ball of tow rope instead of a cart/reel (not that a reel is difficult though). The only "difficult" part about it is that you have to pull the rope out from the center of the ball. If that is too hard to understand, you probably shouldn't be flying aircraft of any kind. And yes, it takes just as long to wind a tow rope up on a garden hose reel as it does to wind up a "monkey ball" of tow rope.