Post by travisj on Aug 18, 2013 20:30:50 GMT -5
I posted this on a few other forums with not much feedback. Like it or hate it here it is. Tell me what ya think........
ALTHOUGH COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Boredom has struck me! I see a post about dp mods every now and again so I set out to figure some out. I am not sure if anyone does this if they do I haven't come across it yet. As often as everyone is told not to put dps near entanglement issues those spots in my opinion can be hard to pass up. Around my area there are a lot of bullrush choked irrigation ditches that will provide lots to catch and a place to hide a catch from theives. But my season is often riddled with pull outs when the coon twist up the short dp chain in the bull rush and end up pulling out. Sooo ill get started..
First I start with a duke dp although I'm sure any of the cylinder type dps would work. I cut the stake OFF!!!
Alright that's it for today.... JK then I take a screen door shock spring you can buy these I personally just did a job where I collected these while replacing storm doors so I had surplus. I pull the guts out of the middle and cut an inch off the spring. I took a scale to these the ones I have average about a 35 lb pull
I then create a tube using 1 1/4"x2 1/2" black gas pipe and a 1 1/4" washer with a 1/2" hole
Now I slide a 12" landscaping spike through the spring and set it in the tube
I then depress the spring pulling on the spike and weld the tube on the bottom of the dp.
Next I slide the factory chain on the spike, heat the point up and beat the point down to create the stop
Put a paint jobber on it
And there you have it a dp that's swiveled at the actual trap with an internal shock spring.
A variation I also tried was to drill a hole through the bottom of the dp running the spike all the way through and putting a tack on the underside of the dp allowing it to still be swiveled at the dp. The whole process takes me about 25 minutes per. Thanks for looking
Travis
ALTHOUGH COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Boredom has struck me! I see a post about dp mods every now and again so I set out to figure some out. I am not sure if anyone does this if they do I haven't come across it yet. As often as everyone is told not to put dps near entanglement issues those spots in my opinion can be hard to pass up. Around my area there are a lot of bullrush choked irrigation ditches that will provide lots to catch and a place to hide a catch from theives. But my season is often riddled with pull outs when the coon twist up the short dp chain in the bull rush and end up pulling out. Sooo ill get started..
First I start with a duke dp although I'm sure any of the cylinder type dps would work. I cut the stake OFF!!!
Alright that's it for today.... JK then I take a screen door shock spring you can buy these I personally just did a job where I collected these while replacing storm doors so I had surplus. I pull the guts out of the middle and cut an inch off the spring. I took a scale to these the ones I have average about a 35 lb pull
I then create a tube using 1 1/4"x2 1/2" black gas pipe and a 1 1/4" washer with a 1/2" hole
Now I slide a 12" landscaping spike through the spring and set it in the tube
I then depress the spring pulling on the spike and weld the tube on the bottom of the dp.
Next I slide the factory chain on the spike, heat the point up and beat the point down to create the stop
Put a paint jobber on it
And there you have it a dp that's swiveled at the actual trap with an internal shock spring.
A variation I also tried was to drill a hole through the bottom of the dp running the spike all the way through and putting a tack on the underside of the dp allowing it to still be swiveled at the dp. The whole process takes me about 25 minutes per. Thanks for looking
Travis