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Yea On my old fortress I had two GCS silk farms and a FB silk farm  Needless to say on each fortress I had legendary weavers continually pumping out masterwork socks trousers and vests.
 I use the method for dropping silk down to the level below just cos I find it easier because every now and then I hit the lever 2 times and Im good to go for a while, If i dont I have to raise the bridge, unforbid the doors and tell the silk collectors to collect and then they sit around whilst the doors are fobidden and the silk is being spat. This method allows for a continuous stream of silk. I also like your idea of multiple lures, didnt think of that.
The only problem I have is that the dog gets hit by the occasional piece of falling silk from the bridges being retracted. This often damages lungs and hearts...
One huge advantage is, once these clothes start to wear out you can sell them and they sell for alot (especially CGS ones). I have had slightly worn masterwork GCS trousers sell for up to 1000 dwarfbux. I would trade 100000-200000 dwarfbux each year just to get rid of all my waste clothing

This current world I havn't found a single GCS
but on the upside I am about to breach hell and *hopefully* build in hell in like 5 minutes!!!
Should be chaos fun!
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It is complete. I have destroyed all the demons and an unlucky forgotten beast (a large shrimp?!) that happened to waltz into the demon slaughtering chamber. I am currently mining out the the adamantium and am beginning the new fortress. In hell.

In the year 266 a horrible beast enters the top cavern level. His name is Omstu, an enourmous one-eyed, fire-breathing pterosaur with jagged grey scales and black wings.
The order is given to seal the entrance to the caverns but there are too many dwarves trapped in lower caverns and if the fortress is sealed, they will surely perish in the
burning fires of Omstu. The militia are ordered into the caverns to protect the dwarves trying to slip from the lower cavern levels into the main fortress.
Omstu occupies himself with destroying a table while the dwarves escape to the relative safety of the fortress. As the last of the dwarves are escaping into the fortress
the militia are told to fall back. Omstu decides that this would be a good time to charge. The militia are running to the fortress but the beast is too fast, they
would never make it. Suddenly, Fath Uzollektad stops and faces the oncoming beast to buy the rest of the militia enough time to escape. He charges head on through the
firery breath of Omstu. Burning alive, Fath, duel wielding an iron warhammer and a steel battleaxe continues to fight Omstu until the beast manages to clench his
jaws onto Fath's arm and violently shake the dwarf around. Fath's arm holding his battleaxe and shield is torn off and he is sent spinning through the air until he
collides with the wall. Fath enters a martial trance and manages to climb onto the Omstu's back with one arm and bite his right wing. Omstu manages to knock the,
(!!still burning!!) crazy dwarf off his back and proceeds to bite off both of Fath's legs. Fath, lying on the ground, with nothing left but a single left arm punches Omstu
in the skull fracturing it and slaying the giant forgotten beast. Fath then manages to, get this, STAND UP, walk over to a barrel of dwarven wine to have a drink,
but as he gets close to it he sets it on fire and gets caught in a burst of boiling Dwarven wine and bleeds to death! Omstu's remains were made into soap and a legendary tomb
was made for Fath Uzollektad, the slayer of beasts.

tl:dr Dwarf charges at a firebreathing FB and gets all limbs ripped off bar his left arm then punches he beast in the head killing it.

I couldn't find it on my map, but I will search for it on stocks, didn't think of that. Thanks in advance 

I can confirm that they do shoot webs at objects they cannot path to. I have just made my first silk farm and it is working well. The setup is as follows:
     WWWWWWWW
     FB               W
WWFB               W
WSFB          P    W
WWFB               W
     FB               W
     WWWDWWWW
W=wall
F= fortification
B= bridge to make a wall when raised
S= GCS
P= some poor hapless dog, (kittens dont work, (sadly) the GCS doesnt shoot at them)
I would include some pictures but i cant figure out how...