My 8" and 10" spider coils kept getting caught on 4" high stuble in a mowed field, first time this field was mowed in 3 years. The 10" coil is shown here. Tried the 8" coil in the field yesterday, cover worked good. Lets me lower the coil 2-3" more. I used a piece of white PVC sheet that was in my cellar, it's a little thinner than a dime. Punched holes in it and used tie wraps, it's solidly in place, will leave it on permanantly. Might be good for the beach, I think sand would be easy to remove. Jabbo
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Easy Home made coil cover
- Thread starter jabbo
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Critterhunter
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Nice job. Another handy material that is free to get your hands on is that corruplast material they make a lot of signs out of. The stuff looks like cardboard being ribbed like cardboard if you look into the side of it where it's been cut. It's trapped air in there just like they make cardboard too. The stuff is waterproof, smooth so it slides easy over grass, and just about indestructable. It won't tear or bend easy at all. I'd melt the holes though for the zip ties just so no tear can start should it be snagged hard in a root or something, but even then you'd have to probably put all your weight on it to get it to rip. It ain't easy to tear for sure even with a cut started.
Political signs are ILLEGAL to touch, but if your city has a ordinance against people posting money making signs on telephone poles and on city tree lawns at street corners or such, then you'll be doing them a favor if you find somebody putting one of those stupd "lose weight" signs or something with a telephone # on city property or on a telephone pole. just make sure it's illegal for them to do that before touching one. Or, head to your local gas station or convenient store and do a little dumpster diving. Often they throw out signs made of this material.
I got a big sheet of the stuff and cut out geese siloutes for goose hunting. Works great. I can stack 24 of them tied all together with a rope threw a hole in them and carry them into a muddy field for setup. Beats the expense of buying full body decoys or lugging those into a muddy field. A local sign supply shop has huge sheets for like $12 and even had the metal sign stands cheap that I use to stick the geese in the farm field. They sell commercial ones made of this stuff but they are a fortune. I cut out templates for spray painting the grey, black, and white onto them so I could quickly paint them all. Worked great.
Again, great job on that coil cover there!
Political signs are ILLEGAL to touch, but if your city has a ordinance against people posting money making signs on telephone poles and on city tree lawns at street corners or such, then you'll be doing them a favor if you find somebody putting one of those stupd "lose weight" signs or something with a telephone # on city property or on a telephone pole. just make sure it's illegal for them to do that before touching one. Or, head to your local gas station or convenient store and do a little dumpster diving. Often they throw out signs made of this material.
I got a big sheet of the stuff and cut out geese siloutes for goose hunting. Works great. I can stack 24 of them tied all together with a rope threw a hole in them and carry them into a muddy field for setup. Beats the expense of buying full body decoys or lugging those into a muddy field. A local sign supply shop has huge sheets for like $12 and even had the metal sign stands cheap that I use to stick the geese in the farm field. They sell commercial ones made of this stuff but they are a fortune. I cut out templates for spray painting the grey, black, and white onto them so I could quickly paint them all. Worked great.
Again, great job on that coil cover there!
coinjumper
New member
Nice job jabbo, gonna do that on my d2
I was hunting with Jabbo, and saw the mod in action, while my Vaquero and the standard coil got hung up on virtually every swing..As soon as I can get some ties, the 8 by 9 gets a new cover..I use the same thing on my Clean Sweep coil about five inches wide to scrape the ground in late Autumn/ early Spring to get maximum depth.... When the grass is growing, it comes off, since it rides up on the grass more so than the CS coil...