Boy Scouts of America Pioneering Tower Building, Troop and Crew 272 build a big one

Pioneering is great fun! In the back of the Pioneering merit badge hand book you will find a list of spars and rope lengths and quantities to put together a Pioneering Kit! Troop 272 bought a 20' trailer, and got miles of rope and 100's of maple spars donated, we got a farm jack, and made mallets, and we started training. This is the Joe Nine Pioneering Kit (the past Scoutmaster, Ben Nine, father's land is the source of the wondrful maple spars). Brian Walker (past Scoutmaster and now Crew Advisor) wanted to do a monster tower for an Adult Scouter team building exersice (we can do anything if we work hard enough), so we hit the woods and got 35' spars (they are very tricky to transport, and got cut down to 20' after the tower was built). This is a 25' equilateral triangle with an isosceles triangle inserted up into the first triangle (10' base, 25'legs) and the 35' spars on the outer corners. We prebuild a rope ladder, and hung a rappelling

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[WalkerWalkerWalker]

Hope to have the 21' Crew 272 Ferris Wheel posted soon... We got put on the front page of the Commercial News May 3rd 2010... No Scouts were aloud on it, so we gave rides to Manikins...LOL... Please be nice when you leave comments... everyone has an opinion and I welcome all comments. Check out the Crew 272 ISS contacts search "Crew 272 ISS" and visit SpaceJamboree dit com hope to see you there in 2011...

[scoutello]

I am a National cheif comissioner, and I dont see purpose of this... I mean - the great job, but pioneering is the way of making life in nature better, easyer...

I dont see how this project can help my troop to live better 15 days in wilderness???

Just for fun???

I repeat - the job they did is great, I know they ejoyed it (beacuse here we cherrish pioneering the most), and congratulations for just the job they did!

Was that their own imagination, or just reproduction?

[WalkerWalkerWalker]

This project as an Adult team building event, we achieved something some thought was impossible, opening everyone's minds to bigger possibilities.

1. Rappelling MB 30' tower, this was 35' and we did rappel it.

2. Place to put Ham Radio antennas so you don't upset the camp ranger by putting them in his trees.

3. Place to hang a bear bag (its flat in the plains states).

4. Practice our ascending skills (we are cavers, and need to get back up the rope).

A classic Hour Glass tower w/side supports

[knowlj]

I lost interest after 3 minutes.

[WalkerWalkerWalker]

We just added music... hope you find that sound adds interest....

[brainsgowalking]

LookBehind Uand SeeMe, good luck... love to see your work on YouTube.

[LookBehindUandSeeMe]

I am a 15 year old scout......living in singapore...having a pioneering competition in dec

[brainsgowalking]

granaet(dot)nl I checked out your web page with Google's Crome web browser, it will translate the Dutch to English... You have a very cool site... tons of photos and I did find some Pioneering work..lashings... but I wondered, it looks like they are building a city out of Pallets (you put freight on them and load in a truck). What is that all about? Looks like a lot of Scouts are having a lot of fun with hammers and nails!

[vuurwerkteamdamwoude]

@brainsgowalking I don't have any photo's from it anymore ps our site is granaet(dot)nl

[brainsgowalking]

I would love to grow Bamboo here in Indiana, USA. But, it's too cold.  The 35' logs bent as we lifted the tower up. We pulling them back into a straight alignment with rope. The kinetic energy of a 35' maple 6" diameter log was huge. I can see making a giant bow (and arrow) with one. As the wood dries the logs get much lighter. An invasive species called the emerald ash borer the is killing our Ash trees. So, we can't move firewood from one area to another for fear of spreading this bug.

[jorgekleiss]

@brainsgowalking where i come from (venezuela) there is a lot of bamboo, now its illegal to cut it, but when i was a scout it wasnt, and you could get really long bambo, we had to carry each of them with at least 3 people. the funny thing, was that since they where still green, they were very very flexible, so you could see the constructions stretch and move like crazy.

[jorgekleiss]

@brainsgowalking where i come from (venezuela) there is a lot of bamboo, now its illegal to cut it, but when i was a scout it wasnt, and you could get really long bambo, we had to carry each of them with at least 3 people. the funny thing, was that since they where still green, they were very very flexible, so you could see the constructions stretch and move like crazy.

[brainsgowalking]

@jorgekleiss Where did you get 30' long bamboo? That would be some awesome construction material. We build a model of all our projects (you can see one in this video if you look sharply... Anyhow... 30' bamboo poles would ROCK...

[brainsgowalking]

@vuurwerkteamdamwoude I would love to see your big towers... When I am in Amsterdam I find your bridges very beautiful. (I went to your site, but didn't see any towers...). Perhaps a big wind mill?

[vuurwerkteamdamwoude]

in holland we build higher one's