Outdoor Inventions

[BarryBobPosthole]

What are the coolest outsoor inventions you've run across?

One of the coolest ones I saw was when I visited my uncle who lived on a lake in Texas called Lake Tawakoni. (the Tawakoni used to to be Oklahoma injuns but the Osages ran them off so they moved to Tejas long ago)
My uncle had a dock at his place and he loved to catfish. So he ran a trot line from the end of his dock and tied a long piece of surgical tubing, as he called it, to the end and then tied the tubing to a couple of concrete blocks. He could sit in a chair on the end of his dock and pull run that trot line. He had a nail driven in a post that he hooked each hook over as he pulled it in. Then he'd just reverse the procedure when he rebaited it. He only had maybe a half dozen hooks on it but he ran it almost every day, and caught a catfish or two every day.

One of the damndest things I ever saw. Outdoor folk are inventive.
BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

One of the most useful things I carry in my pack is a "zip" saw for cutting the pelvic bone on a deer. My knife is fine for does and such. But, for a big buck this thing saves a bunch of time and effort.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Archery-Products-Zip-Saw/dp/B001FAR0T8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1486733809&sr=8-2&keywords=deer+pelvic+saw

[Chicken Dinner]

My entry in the redneck ingenuity category:

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[BarryBobPosthole]

One of the most useful things I carry in my pack is a "zip" saw for cutting the pelvic bone on a deer. My knife is fine for does and such. But, for a big buck this thing saves a bunch of time and effort.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Archery-Products-Zip-Saw/dp/B001FAR0T8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1486733809&sr=8-2&keywords=deer+pelvic+saw

Not sure why you have to cut through that bone. I noticed Arty does that too.

BKB

[Captain]

I actually invented a deer lift that would mount to the back of a 4-wheeler. You could crank your deer up and put it on the back rack with no effort. It was one of those necessity is the mother of inventions sorta deals. I had shoulder surgery and could not lift. I made them for a lot of folks.

[Chicken Dinner]

Other than it's the way I was taught, I never put much thought into it. If I had to put a reason to it, I guess I'd go with it makes it easier to clean out the anus, etc. and to spread the hind legs when you hang your deer. Around these parts a processor is also likely to charge you extra if you don't clean all that stuff out correctly and he has to.

[BarryBobPosthole]

You should patent it. Seriously.

BKB

[airbud7]

My fuel pump went out(2 miles from home) so I put some gas in the windshield washer fluid reservoir and snatched the rubber line off windshield and stuck it in the carburetor....100 button pushes later I was in my driveway.

[BarryBobPosthole]

You must have an old vehicle! The new fuel injected ones won't work like that.

On my old Pontiac in high school, I ran the winshield washer line in under my dash and filled the reservoir up with
jack Daniels. The idea was to just have it squirt whiskey into your cup when you pushed the button. No open container, voila! Only problem is my car always smelled like whiskey.

Seemed like a good idea at the time though.

BKB

[airbud7]

hahaha^ thats cool right there BBP/ lol

Yea I did it a long time ago/ before the kids and fuel injection

[Chicken Dinner]

On the plus side, you don't hear nearly as much about electronic fuel pumps failing in comparison to the old mechanical ones.

[airbud7]

yep...the old ones could also work but leak from a weep hole on the side like a water pump can do....

I lost a whole tank of gas once on my friends lawn/ 1976 firebird

[BarryBobPosthole]

On the plus side, you don't hear nearly as much about electronic fuel pumps failing in comparison to the old mechanical ones.

The downside is that nowadays most of them are inside the fuel tank where its an all day sucker if you have to change one. Or a $500 bill to replace a $90 part.

My old 2000 silverado had a whine in the fuel pump from the first year I had it. I drove it to Canada and got some bad gas somewhere and it clogged up the in line fuel filter. I giess that overheated the bearing and even after I blew the crud out of the filter it still whined. I drove it 14 years that way, always expecting it to go. It never did.

BKb

[airbud7]

And Always order stuff like that online...

See here carparts.com on left cost $43.99 local oreilly cost $233.99


8589

almost $200 difference /wow!

[LJ3]

Oh... look who went off topic.

[BarryBobPosthole]

yep, I just ordered parts for some boat projects I have to do. I think I bought like $200 bucks worth of stuff. It'd cost me $3000-4000 bucks at a dealer to get them to do the same work.

BKb

[Big Muddy]

Cap, I've got a friend from Winona, MS who has a patent on an atv deer lift....not positive, but I think this it....called a Deer Caddy, and they are sold by Northern Tools and Sportsman Guide....pretty ingenious invention.


8590

[Captain]

Mine is a WHOLE lot smaller

[airbud7]

Oh... look who went off topic.

What?...I always change my fuel pump Outdoors...:D

[Egghead]

Mine is a WHOLE lot smaller

That's what she said. :stirthepot

[Egghead]

Been pondering this:

8596

Does anyone have any experience with something like it?

[airbud7]

2 foot chain seems short/ we humans have big sprockets....looks cool though

[BarryBobPosthole]

Whoo! That makes me tired just looking at the picture!

Reminds me of the old joke about the Pollock that brought his chain saw in for service. It was guaranteed to cut five ricks a day but the Pollock worked his ass off and could only get four. The mechanic started it up and the Pollock jumped back and said 'What's that noise?'

BKB

[airbud7]

hahahahahahahahaha^/ joke of the week Barry!

[airbud7]

That's what she said. :stirthepot


Bam!.....Cappy walked right in that one...

[Arty]

That's what she said. :stirthepot
Damn you beat me to it!

[Arty]

Been pondering this:


8596

Does anyone have any experience with something like it?

I have used one of those actually. They ONLY work if you keep your cut and your angle the same. Or it'll pinch and you're fucked. Kinda like a chainsaw...

[Captain]

That's what she said. :stirthepot

I'm surrounded by smartasses.... ;)