DIY Corner Traps... {The Cheap Bastid Thread!}

[brendonv]

I know they have that blue bandit system, but here's a cheap alternative for corner traps for biners I discovered today.

3/8" ID rubber hose. New fuel line, I think this was.

Match it to your carabiner and your GTG. It's on there tight!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nice tip! I use straws to protect my saw files on the handle.

Any other cheap fixes? Burnham! Post your awesome gaff protectors.

 

[brendonv]

Good idea Butch, the cheap ass thread!

Burns got some sweet gaff protectors.

 

[Burnham]

Easy peasy.

 

[woodworkingboy]

That beats my idea by far, just some gas hose stretched over the tips.

 

[Timber Jack]

ya those are sweet gaff gaurds blows my two peices of gas line tied together with thowline outta da water

 

[squisher]

What are you guarding them from?

Lol, just kidding. Mine usually hang on a hook on the truck and are then carried to where they need to go on. I don't often pack kit in a bag anymore.

Brendon I'm liking that idear.

 

[sotc]

Justin, the rest of us don't spur our wayinto the bucket!

 

[SkwerI]

Dang! That's harsh, Willie!

 

[squisher]

Mother@#^%$%!


I swear that punk is watching my every post! Lol.

 

[gf beranek]

Just keep it in the family, young men.


The garden hose spur protectors are classic, B. The life expectancy of which, in my experience, never lasts for longer than the first day of use and then they disappear. Personal experience. An old garden hose can keep you in spur proctectors for many years at minimal cost.

 

[sotc]

Mother@#^%$%!


I swear that punk is watching my every post! Lol.

Haha, i'll ease up on ya if you drag your bucket flipping rear to the gtg

 

[Timber Jack]

Come on lets here some more cheap A$$ ideas!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Kinda hard to come up with anything... YOU didn't. I've said my straw trick already.

Hmmmmmm.

 

[Timber Jack]

Well, we're so cheap we use golf balls as file handle, burnt up 1/2 inch rigging lines as winch lines and heavy duty 2" ratchet straps to affix the porta wrap to trees.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I just shove it into the base of my palm, all the way into the wrist for a good, snug fit; become one with the file. It stings a bit, but what the hay.

 

[Cobleskill]

A piece of limb wood makes a good file handle. Dry is better. I couldn't find my 5/32 handle. 5/32 file in a 3/16 handle just fell out. A small piece of limb firewood is still on the file.

I have cut down broken ax/sledge handles and remounted on shorter handle. A shorty sledge is handy. Put a ax handle on a sickle.

 

[Tree Reb]

I tried that once by accident, you get used to it after a few months.

 

[Cobleskill]

I did it once, too. Jammed it in pretty good. Don't think about filing without a handle anymore.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wussies!

 

[sotc]

I'm so cheap I don't even use a handle. Don't actually like em

 

[FJR]

I posted this before. Just a cheap FS retriever I found in the garage that has worked flawlessly for me.

 

[sotc]

Doesn't get hung up on twigs or bark?

 

[Cobleskill]

Fix-a-Flat in the pump gallons is a cheap, easy, way to fix annoying bead leaks. If you mount your own tires, tire grease (not really sure if it is just regular grease, it smells like it) on the bead and the rim, prevent bead leaks on steel and aluminum. It makes mounting and dismounting a bunch easier too. Changing tire manually is a real pisser till you learn the tricks, then not so bad. If someone could show you, much faster to learn. Good thing to know, even if you don't plan on doing many. Lots of times nowhere is open, you gotta drop it off and go back, or wait till they get to it. I learned by necessity.

 

[sotc]

in the pump gallons

What does this mean?