For Christmas my wife's brother gave her a Browning Critter Cam for the back yard and I finally got around to mounting it. It is designed to strap to a tree, but there were no trees where we wanted to mount it. The nylon belt and plastic teeth wouldn't clamp properly to a slippery pipe, so I welded some straps to a piece of old galvanized water pipe to make a mount for it. I slid a piece of 1/8" x 3/4" zinc plated strap stock into the slots in the back of the critter cam, where the nylon belt would normally go, to attach the camera to my mount. I welded a flange to the bottom of the pipe so that I could bolt it to an old disk brake for a base. This design made it portable so that we could move it to different locations. I capped off the top of the pipe to keep water out. I used Muriatic acid to remove the galvanized from the bottom end, so that I could weld the flange on to the end. I don't have an x-y table for my Plasma cutter so I just cut the corners off on my swivel mast horizontal saw and then turned it in the lathe. Notice the blue chips on the cross slide. My lathe has a 7-1/2 hp motor and has little respect for mild steel. Attached are two critter pictures from our back yard.
Don
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