#trailcam #howtomake #cameramount In this video I show you how you can make your own trail camera mount that is cheap and works! Can even adjust the angle of the camera to fit any tree or height you place the camera!
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing that! I like to help and if I feel like nobody is watching I tend to get discouraged that nobody cares anyway. Appreciate it!
I have been running these for 6 or 8 years. I modified mine a little. The head of the my hex bolts are welded to the washer, which are also welded to the lag screw. This makes the bolt immobile once the lag is screwed into the tree. That way, when you spin the wing nut, the bolt doesn’t just spin, it actually tightens tight. I also use a smaller wing nut on the eye bolt so I can tighten it tightly against the insert on the camera by hand. A tool-less install that is always solid.
Great idea. I just made one. I found a thumb bolt at the hardware store and used a wing nut on the other end to hold the eye bolts and washers together. Works great!
I've made these, they are really good, far better than straps. Putting cameras high helps, or putting them low on a ground spike can also help. I'd highly recommend camouflaging the camera - just hot glue gun ghillie suit scrim etc to the case. Plastic Ivy or plans can also be good to break up the outline. I'd also think about the field of view and how much of the camera can be seen from the side that just doesn't need to be - putting a camo'd-out camera in the V of a bough is usually preferable to mounting it on a tree trunk. I haven't seen a video that covers all the things that you can do to stop your cameras getting nicked, I might have to make one, but these mounts are simple, effective and I don't think they have a downside. You can check the general field of view using a laser pointer with a couple of clothes pegs clipped to it, sit that on top of the camera and it will give you a good enough indication of where it is looking. Everyone should be making these and ditching the straps.
Actually thought I invented exactly this back in 2013, lol. Agree 100% best way to hang a camera, also hang them high. I just subscribed, no stranger to PA, on the border or Easton in NJ. Good luck this season broski.
Yea, I know it's been figured out awhile ago but thought I'd share. Def a good and cheap way to hang cams. Awesome, yea you aren't far from me! Thanks for stopping by!
Made 6 of these Friday evening and replaced all the straps on my cams at one of my locations. Now my cams are 10' high. Awesome new picture angle and pov also. Thanks again!
Damn good idea Jase. I think I’ll try this. The infomercial was totally me too man! Nothing chaps you hand like an old strap. Kinda like old fiberglass haha. 😁
Somehow I missed your comment. Sorry!! Yea that was me! Wish I would have seen this sooner. If u get this, look me up on Facebook as Jase Hunter! Thanks bro!
Thanks, I'm on my way to Home Depot to get enough hardware to make a few. I also never thought about putting a camera down low on logs because I've only ever used straps.
You are right about the strap giving the camera away to potential thieves. I’ve been using the factory screw in ball mounts for years. If the camera I purchase comes mono colored (such as Tactacam) I put a custom camo paint job (bark type pattern) and the cameras are very hard to spot. Also, the screw in mounts allow you to deploy a camera on a 3 inch diameter sapling or the biggest tree in the forest. And the camera can be aimed precisely from whatever height you choose.
I just made several of these. Replace nut and wing nut with plastic knobs. The wingnut should be replaced with a through hole knob. No need for wrenches. Additionally, place a 1/4"' bolt standing on it's head, add fender washer, then eye bolt. level the eye bolt and put hot glue all around the bolt filling the void between bolt and I.D. of eye bolt. Do both eye bolts this way and you have created a filler that also serves as tension / friction point between washers.
@@JaseOutdoors Well, I've got some Nikons. But you can simply put any flash on a cold shoe flash mount: www.amazon.com/Vello-Cold-Shoe-Mount-Thread/dp/B008YK6QF6
@@JaseOutdoors Sweet, yeah I started with a Nikon and just stuck with what I knew. I got a handful of old crop sensors, but I got a couple old D700s I've been using for years. Hoping to get some wildlife with northern lights in the future with the full frame. How about you?
Thanks to his mount, I can put my trail cam in spots I couldn't before and much more easily point the camera where I want to. But once you tighten it down, you need to be sure it won't swivel. I set my Moultrie A-Series about 12 feet up and angled about 45 degrees downward. I thought I had the thumbscrew good and tight. I was wrong. I returned a month later to find that the camera had swiveled down about 90 degrees, so the bottom of the camera--into which you insert the battery holder--faced the sky at a 45-degree angle. I assume this was from wind shaking the smaller limb it was screwed into. The seal around the battery slot isn't waterproof, so the camera had filled with water and was ruined. Remarkably, the rechargeable batteries and SD card still function. Other commenters have recommended lock washers, Loctite, and other ways to tighten it down securely. You can be I'll be testing some of those.
I put them up at least 8 feet off the ground and the bears don't mess with them as quick as when they're placed at eye level for them. But we'll see! Thanks for watching!
@@JaseOutdoors I'm sure it will, where I set them out here in Idaho there's tons of bears that are way more of a pain than people, usually. Hah, I'll put them out in April for spring bear season then move them to the backcountry for elk. This will beat the heck out of most straps
I'd almost rather have a bear problem. I have a people problem. I put them up high to make it harder to steal. These make it easier to hang high and the infomercial part of the video is not much of an exaggeration for me. Lol
@@JaseOutdoors The only modification I made was to add two wing nuts on the 3/8 bolt. I made six and just finished mounting three of them. I was going to buy some only until I saw your video. I made six for what would have been the price for three. Thanks!
OK, I watch your video several times just in certain areas so I get the right order to put it in now. I’m confused on the size. You definitely need a quarter inch eyebolt and a quarter inch wingnut makes it easier to tighten to the camera. And for the eyeball that you screw into the tree is how long and is it a 3/8 I’m kind of confused and the bolt is 3/8 slides on that’s only 1 inch and also use a wingnut.
@@scottjkern it can be however long you'd like. I make several different sizes depending on the tree. But you only need a 1/4 20 bolt that screws into the camera. Everything else you can make how you'd like
@@JaseOutdoors well I made a couple and it does work. I made one with a quarter inch eyebolt and the other ones I made like yours 3/8 but I also brought my cordless battery operated drill to drill a hole so it ain’t so doggone hard on my wrist.
