Professional looking DIY Downriggers For Under $50 Each!: How To - Step By Step!!!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Ever wanted a set of professional looking downriggers, but thought them too pricey? Me too! So I came up with a design and built a set of my own professional looking DIY downriggers that work awesome, and the best part is they cost under $50 each! If you would like to build a set of your own DIY downriggers then join me as I take you step by step through this build on how you can build your own awesome set of DIY downriggers and hit the water running! Thanks for watching and God bless!
Approximate Cost breakdown:
Steel: 10 pounds of scrap yard steel at $.50 a pound = $5.00
Pulley: $4.00
Spoked wheel: $17.00
Braided Line: $10 divided by 2= $5.00
Bolts and hardware: $3
Welding Materials: $4.00
Paint: $5.00
Total materials less tax: = $43.00
Material Links:
250 lb. braided line: www.amazon.com...
Spoke wheel: www.amazon.com...
Stainless pulley: www.amazon.com...
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Beautiful message at the end about the relationship with your children later to God‘s relationship to us. God bless you, Tobias.
Thank you so much for you kind and encouraging words. They mean a lot. Thanks too for watching and may God bless you richly!
Awesome video
Thank you! Hope you found it a help and enjoyed it. Thanks too for watching and may God bless you!
I'm in awe, as always. Thanks brother Dave!
So glad you liked the video! I appreciate your positive encouragement as well! It means a great deal! Thanks as always and God bless you my friend!
Awesome build! I’ve been wanting to get some down riggers but didn’t want to spend $150 even on ugly cheap ones, thank you for helping me finalize some ideas I had on building a set for my boat.
You are so welcome! These were really inexpensive to make and they work great! I hope will be a help on your build! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and comment and may God bless you richly!
Awesome next project
These downriggers worked out really well for me the only thing I found out is that I needed to put a little less line on the reel as there were times it would jump off if I wasn't careful. Other than that they have been great! Good luck with your build. I'm sure it will come out great! Thanks for watching and God bless!
Very practical and the video was also well done. thank you! :)
You are so welcome and thank you for watching and sharing and may God bless you richly!
Amazing engineering. God bless you.
Thank you very much! Glad you liked the video and I hope it was helpful! Thanks too for watching and sharing and may God bless!
Excellent job thanks for sharing !
Thank you so much! I hope the video was help in building a set of your own. Thanks too for watching and may God bless you!
Looks great!
Thanks much! I appreciate that! Thanks for watching and God bless!
For the bending you can go to a muffler or machine shop and get it done
Great idea! Thanks for the suggestion and for watching and may God bless you!
Was thinking the emergency stop handle could've been extended to run under the arm and welded where the flat stock is attached. Would be one less cut. Could also grind a flat spot on its outside edge at pulley position. Maybe one shallow angled notch in spoke edge with a 90° trailing face to act as an actual brake vs scrubber brake.
Then again all you're wanting to do is slow that flinging handle down enough to get your hand back on it without injury. So probably not necessary.
You have some good ideas and after using it a while If I had to do it over I would probably add a gear and pawl so the wheel locks when you let go of the handle. I also need to add some type of eye to guide the braid towards the center of the reel as it can stack up along one of the sides and jump the wheel. All in all it has served its purpose and saved me a lot of money! But as you suggested there is always ways of making it better! Take care and God bless!
Awesome craftsmanship...wish my welds looked that good!..lol..how many feet of braided line do you suppose each wheel holds? God bless
Thanks so much I appreciate your kind words! I first started off with around 125 of braid on the wheels (you could probably go up to 150 feet) and then removed quite a bit of it because sometimes if you are not watching the braid builds up on the sides of the wheels and can jump off the wheel. It works great except for that issue. If you want to add a lot of line I would also add a guide to keep the braid running in the middle of the wheel which I plan on doing. Hope that was a help! Thanks so much and may God bless you richly!
Think a resetable line counter would be a handy addition. Now just how to mount it..........hmmm.
Yeah you could mount a Berkley line counter by welding a bracket down from the main arm, but they are not that reliable from the reviews. I just count the handle cranks with 3 turns equaling 4 feet. I don't normally troll below 25 feet. Thanks for sharing and watching and may God bless you!
Excellent job thanks for sharing! What model boat are you using there?
Thanks so much and you are so welcome! That is a 1970 Glastron 17 foot that was gifted to me and I completely restored from bare hull up. It was a real labor of love and now it is my ocean / bay and bigger water boat. I actually just built a top for it and posted that video a couple of days ago. You might want to check it out! Thanks for watching and God bless!
Thanks again. Outstanding work. I’m thinking on trying my hand at striper guiding at some point and I liked the set up of your boat. The falcon boats are popular here amongst our local guides and I’m new to boats so I was curious to what you had. Looks perfect.
@@outdoorsadrenaline No problem and you are more than welcome! I've tweaked a bunch of things on the boat over the years and finally gotten it to how I like it! Guiding sounds like it could be fun so best of luck as you consider it! Take care and God bless!