Home made caber trainer

Any comments ? Any ideas ?

Built it my self -- no plans . Just a neccessity !  I like it ..

 

very nice! much more proffesional than mine. does yours keep bouncing to beat hell like mine? I havnt worked to hard to figure out how to put damping in the system.

Best,

Brent

That is awesome.

My 28lbs WFD ... also home made ... you have to do what you can , when you live so far from every where . Shipping cost suck !!

AlDargie wrote: Most excellent.  A real work of functional art. . I wish I had a welder and knew how to use it.

Come on up anytime Al, I have a welder and some cutting tools, just no idea what to use for materials!

Thanks Wally ,

Bobby also judges here in Alaska too ! These weights didn't cost me anything but time. We do use Bobbys weights in comp . I built these just for practice , and they work very well .

I love going to the "Claw" ,it a very well run game . just have to get there .   

 Hey Pit Rat ,How much do they weigh ? I like the sounds of that !!

Hey Bill ,,  Thanks for the compliment .. I like to work with my hands , either metal or wood --- so I build things ! The trainer was out of necessity and the flail was for fun ,,, I thought it was be fun to bring a 28 lbs flail to a meet .   It was just something to do on a cold winter night !

As for the fork I just cut 2 tines off a 4 tine fork . We don't throw the sheaf here in AK . But I needed something to practice with , as I'm 1 of 2 guys in the state that travel outside ( to the lower 48 states ) just for the love of the games !

I life in the town of Kenai ( keen-eye ) south of Anchorage .

I'll (the wife) will post a pic of the drive wheels on the bar. What did you make the flail out of AK? I'VE GOT TO HAVE ONE! I want to be the first kid on my block with a 28# morning star flail. We do extrication training in the fire dept. cutting up cars, guess who would stay a little late continueing to "work" on cars with one of those?

Bret, it was funny, I seldom come over to the training board anymore and when i did, I saw your caber trainer and had to say something. When I pop mine it seems to bounce for several times and even though the springs are anchored in concrete in the ground it seems to shake the ground and is very loud with 75# loaded on it. I made mine as a quick-demo unit to see if it could work and prove out the concept, but ideally as a model to move to a metal and urethane-wheeled model like yours. But as it turns out, Ive been spending all my caber-time with my 20' 120# fiberglassed beast. Its a race to see if i can ever turn it before i get too far over the hill. -there would definitely be a party if it happened.

Edited by Brent Abbott

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

 

GIVE ME SOME DRAWINGS. FOR THIS ITEM..

 

YOU TOO BRENT

 

I don't have plans either .. Just built what I thought would work out of scrap stuff from work , like the rest of the stuff I use to throw .

Brent ,, how did you attach the round stock to the wood ? Or did you run it all the way through ?

Bret

This is good stuff, just be careful not to lose the running hard plant timing that is required with bigger sticks.

Play with this once an a while, but get a real caber and work the run/plant timing.  This is where I see most tosses fall apart.  The timing between the plant and pull takes to long.  It needs to be instantaneous.  You have to think pull before your feet plant so you can actually pull when you feet plant.  If you plant and then think pull you had better be a super strong individual.