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ryan the poor college kid
12-19-2001, 01:48 AM
i was just wndering if any of you have tried to make this or any other type of homemade clam. this is the one i am talking about:http://www.walleyesinc.com/randyt9295/devilslakeclam.html
my friend and i are seriously trying to engineer one of these together. just thought one of you guys have tried?
Captain jay
12-19-2001, 04:13 AM
Boy, I thought I had it rough at Lake State when I was going to college!!
Good luck Ryan!
Captain Jay
Pitts
12-19-2001, 07:43 AM
Ryan reminds me of when I moved to the Twin Cities in 82 and a job was hard to come by.
I worked for a plastic outfit that had large cardboard boxes called gaylords which I nailed one to a wooden skid and turned one upside down on the other and then nailed 1/4 " plywood to the top and the seam in the center, cut the door out and used a narrow piece of plastic for the hinge. That made it a cardboard fishhouse for nothing.
Boy when we had rain in the spring and I had to pull it off the lake it sure was heavy:)
Good luck
Hey a blue tarp works ok for a wooden floor and two wooden ends that flip up one with a door type house also but it rains inside from the condensate collecting but it's sure nice and bright in the sun.
Pitts
Eyesrfn
12-19-2001, 08:06 PM
I just bought one of the calf sleds today to pull my ice-fishing gear around. Thanks for the link to Mike Jelle's homemade clam, will try and build it this weekend.
ryan the poor college kid
12-20-2001, 03:17 AM
if i can ask, and if you would be so excellent to tell me, where can a guy get one of those calf sleds? i have heard a lot about them and was wondering where and how much they are???
jimie
12-20-2001, 06:30 PM
it looks like its going to be a long winter
Eyesrfn
12-20-2001, 07:31 PM
I bought this sled at the Big R in Billings, MT. I think about any ranch supply place will carry them. I have the medium size, its 6' long, 3' wide and about 14" high. This one was on sale for $40.00. It's made of hard plastic material and you can get runners for them.
In Cabela's on line catalogue, there is an ice fishing tent 6'X 6' by 78" high for $99.00 $US. By time you've spent for the materials, wrestled with the construction, time and money wise, you may be better off just buying one....my 2 cents worth.