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After just spending about 40 mins untangling one of my bars kite lines , it got me thinking has anyone ever thrown away a bar or lines because it was too tangled?
This photo is from awhile ago and is of my best tangle , my kite got smoked by a wave. It took me two days to finally untangle and almost went in the bin.
If you get one string out at a time it can't possibly take more than an hour.
I find that drinking mid strength beer can be really beneficial but rum can sometimes lead to string rampage.
(like what you said with it nearly going in the bin)
As long as you do not detach the bar from the kite it shouldn't take more than 10 15 minutes. They are just loops on loops and will all fluff out. However, if you take them off the kite and do them one at a time that nest is a two beer minimum operation. We have all been there.
I am particularly hopeless when your kite or bar rolls through your lines. I see guys unhook and just flick bar back throughout lines to fix, with kite still in air. I've landed and tried about 16 different options and still had to detach a line. Does my head in. 
This was my mates bar after he left it behind. Found it down the creek the next day haha
That does not look bad at all. Start with the least tangled steering line. Untangle one line at a time, no quick way around it. Having multi cloured lines and a moderate temper helps.
A mate of mine in a fit of rage after a very bad session with an intense "birds nest" threw his bar and lines in the bin. I pulled it from the bin, opened a beer and sat down to begin the untangling, it took about an hour and was sorted. I charged him a 6 pack for the job. 
This was in the very early days ~2001 He never went back to kiting but it did galvanise his love of windsurfing ;-)
DM
Once you learned to kite and untangled a bar, the any thing in life that's tangled bad is a easy. Phone cords, cables it's all too easy.
It's the one skill kiting has taught me.
Thanks Christian for the tip . I just winded the lines up on the bar that day and chucked it in the car and grabbed a another bar that's why it got so tangled . We only get a short time to kite the seabreeze here can't waste it untangling lines.
Makes me feel blessed. Had to detach my lines as they were tangled around my feet during the swim back to shore. Left them in the garage and came home the next day to find my wife had gotten bored during the day and untangled them for me. 
weebitbreezy said..
Had my share of tangles, my only rule is to sort it out on the beach, never take it home a mess.
Had as bad as any of the pics ive seen.
been using Q-line for few years now and its a whole new ball game now.
doesnt float around and tangle like normal line.
Wont use anything else now.
Back few years ,just had to be in rite frame of mind and sit down at home with a beer and music on.
Dont leave it tangled till u need it though
The idea of keeping the lines attached sounds logical, but in a major tangle it makes no difference.
Certainly if it's just a bit tangled then teasing the tangles out in place will work and it might help to leave the lines attached. Even then, if the bar or kite has gone through the lines then it can be difficult to clear the tangles and work out which line belongs where.
Once it's a major bird's nest then all you can do is bite the bullet and tackle the task slowly and methodically and patiently.
My technique is to simply take a single line, find the end, trace it to a loop or knot. Clear the end. Repeat.
When you clear the end you need to walk it out straight and keep an eye on it so it can't get tangled again.
Keep repeating until that line is clear then set it aside and repeat for the next line.
As you extract a line, the others get exponentially faster to untangle. There's simply less lines to be tangled.
I usually do this on the driveway at home, or on the grass at the beach. I've done it a few times in the living room with the lines down the hallway. It's not hard to do. It's simple repetition and patience.
One of my land kiting buddies owns a kite repair shop. Regularly gets tangled bars sent to him to untangle!....
So there ya go chaps. Can't be farked untangling your own lines? Pay some other schmuck to do it.
