Some Sample Courses.
I just thought that I would put up a few possible course layouts. The number of layouts are only limited to the number of pulleys, your imagination and the area where you are setting up.
This is a course that I set up on 3/28/99. It was about 750 yards long. It was set up on a baseball diamond and shows how to set up a fairly long course on a small field.
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This is a course that I set up on 6/28/98. It was 700 yards long and was a fairly challenging course. It was tougher than it looks from the drawing because the dogs would start at the lure and when it got to the first turn, it could go either way depending on which way we ran it. The dogs would cut the course to the wrong side quite a bit.
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This course is similar to one that the Rhodesian Ridgeback club used for their ASFA sanctioned Lure coursing on 6/20/98. It was about 600-700 yards and a pretty tough course.
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This course is approximately the same design as I used for a demonstration course at the 1998 Spring Trial in Colorado. The field was wider than it was deep and this seemed to work well.
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This is a slick & easy way to set up the pulleys right at the lure machine so that you can adjust for string stretch with a "Tensioner Pulley". This requires a couple of extra pulleys, but makes it really easy to maintain string tension as the day goes on. If you started with new string, it will continue to stretch and you can simply move one pulley out a little to adjust your tension. The alternative would be to cut string out of the loop, thus wasting string, or to move the lure machine forward or back to adjust tension.
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