Ball on a srting!

[JUBAT]

So last night I did an experiment where I tied a baseball to a string, put the ball on my wiffle post, tired the sting to a stick, and gave it a whack. It spun off to the right and promptly fell in the grass. I thought, well what if I oriented the stick horizontally? So i did that and after hitting the baseball hard enough, it kept going round and round and round until the string was completely wound up and then it stopped. I've never had anything run this long!

Won't be long now! See the baseball is a pendulum and once I figure out how to unwind the string and keep poking the baseball with a stick, we will have a runner!

[preoccupied]

So last night I did an experiment where I tied a baseball to a string, put the ball on my wiffle post, tired the sting to a stick, and gave it a whack. It spun off to the right and promptly fell in the grass. I thought, well what if I oriented the stick horizontally? So i did that and after hitting the baseball hard enough, it kept going round and round and round until the string was completely wound up and then it stopped. I've never had anything run this long!

Won't be long now! See the baseball is a pendulum and once I figure out how to unwind the string and keep poking the baseball with a stick, we will have a runner!

The key thing I took from what you said is "once i figure out how to unwind the string". I know you are looking for some special force but I think based on my drawing that it's possible that wrapping a string around a post would position the weights into overbalanced positions. Then you need to rotate the post which costs nothing because there is no weight on it, just strings.

[JUBAT]

There could be something to this and it's been right before our eyes all along!