Here are some movable camcorder holders/bases we built for our blinds. They aren't permanent but be plan to leave them in the field year around. These will work for any ground blinds or elevated box blinds.
We built these for a few reasons:
1. We go tired of dragging tripods with us to our blinds.
2. Some of the blinds are a little tight and it can be difficult to arrange the tripods so that our trad bows don't hit the legs.
3. Save on setup time once in the blinds.
The horizontal pole is an adjustable shaft that we found in the paint section of home depot. (Mr. LongArm) You can adjust the length by twisting and untwisting it to your desired length and then twisting it to secure at your desired length.
The pole was trimmed down on the top and bottom sections so that at the lowest setting it measures right at 30" when extended all the way up it will get to 40". You can also move the camera bar up and down as well which give you another foot of adjustment.
The bottom section of the pole has two bolts running through it and they are opposite of each other. 1 runs east/west and the other one runs North/South. These bolts help center the pole in the cinder block for when we poured the quickcrete and helps secure the pole in the cinder block and prevents the pole from spinning/loosening.
The top section has two conduit hangers (I believe they are 1") they are secured to the pole using 1.5" long 1/4" bolts and are positioned to where the hand tighten screws go in opposite directions on each hanger. Each hanger has strips of heat shrink on them to prevent any scaring on the camera bar that the ball head is connected to.
In total it cost us about $120 to build 6 of these but we already had the top sections from our monfroto tripods.
Any horizontal pole and ball head will work with this setup and you can still use it with your tripod if you are hunting a blind that doesn't have one of the bases in it.
We built these for a few reasons:
1. We go tired of dragging tripods with us to our blinds.
2. Some of the blinds are a little tight and it can be difficult to arrange the tripods so that our trad bows don't hit the legs.
3. Save on setup time once in the blinds.
The horizontal pole is an adjustable shaft that we found in the paint section of home depot. (Mr. LongArm) You can adjust the length by twisting and untwisting it to your desired length and then twisting it to secure at your desired length.
The pole was trimmed down on the top and bottom sections so that at the lowest setting it measures right at 30" when extended all the way up it will get to 40". You can also move the camera bar up and down as well which give you another foot of adjustment.
The bottom section of the pole has two bolts running through it and they are opposite of each other. 1 runs east/west and the other one runs North/South. These bolts help center the pole in the cinder block for when we poured the quickcrete and helps secure the pole in the cinder block and prevents the pole from spinning/loosening.
The top section has two conduit hangers (I believe they are 1") they are secured to the pole using 1.5" long 1/4" bolts and are positioned to where the hand tighten screws go in opposite directions on each hanger. Each hanger has strips of heat shrink on them to prevent any scaring on the camera bar that the ball head is connected to.
In total it cost us about $120 to build 6 of these but we already had the top sections from our monfroto tripods.
Any horizontal pole and ball head will work with this setup and you can still use it with your tripod if you are hunting a blind that doesn't have one of the bases in it.
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