D40 Mount???

[Death from Above]

Any of you "treeless guys" got pic of how you are mounting your camera to a tpost?

[jlptexashunter]

Grab you a pack like this:


Tpost - 1x6 piece of plywood. Drill two holes top and bottom and wire the plywood to the post then take the right-center forked hook and make a shelf for the camera, and the hook farthest left-bottom and use it on the side of your camera to hold it onto the plywood. Two small 10" bungee straps, one around the center between motion and flash/IR, the other around the bottom lid screw.

[kramer]

Get a 10 foot piece of pvc from home depot and cut it in two. Find these fencing clamps





Slide them on and purchase some long bolts and nuts. Run the bolts through the holes on the side of the D40 and mount onto the pvc. Drive a T-post at every feeder you have, slide the pvc rig onto the T-post, keep a c clamp with bolt on the bottom of the pvc, drive a 2 foot piece of rebar beside the T-post, put the c clamp around the rebar and tighten (so cows or animals cant move the camera) and you are ready to rock. Cover the camera lens and flash with paper and paint the whole assembly green, here is the final assembly before painting.



The solar panel mount is another clamp, I have not been able to find these again, as I built these 3 years ago. You can pull up, loosen the clamp on the rebar and pull up the rebar, take the whole assembly to another feeder with a T-post already there, slide it on, attach the clamp and drive the rebar, takes you 5 minutes or less to move your cameras and have them rock steady. Let me know if you need any assistance.

[Heath]

Ben and I made some mounts out of square tubing that had a place to mount the camera and a platform to set the solar panel on. We then put sucker rod in the ground at every spot we need a camera, so we can move the camera mounts around the ranch to where we need them. Maybe Ben has some pictures of them.

[jgard]

I took and wraps the cords it came with to the camera and went around everything as many times as I could and it holds the camera to the post well the post as just word enought for the camera to fit in

[Sergio_III]

Pine Ridge AT-5

[Rsatt]

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[Catfish270]

I know that soil conditions are more challenging in some places for digging a hole, but I put in a 4x4 post to hang my camera on and it works great. The solar charger can mount on the top of the post. Granted, it is not portable, but if you don't plan on moving your feeder, it is a good option and only cost $1 for the wood (scrap section from Home Depot) and $2.50 for a bag of concrete. You can nail two 2x4's together for the same effect. Just an option to consider.

[tx07]

Wow those are some nice looking rigs and solar panels too!
How come you guys didnt chime in on the thread when the question was asked on how to hook the solar panel to the D40 guys?

[cj7zrcool]

I made these portable posts for our D40s(or any trail cam for that matter) this weekend. 5gal plastic bucket, approx 53# concrete mix, 2-3/8" OD chain link terminal post, 1' of 3/8" rebar, (2) PGT2 fence/post brackets, short piece of aluminum angle, composite decking for the camera mount. Waalaa...should be quite functional and last a long time.

[Shake1]

Here's how we do it. Works very well. Slips over any T-post. We place our cams on the T-posts for our hog panels.

[Heath]

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This is how we do ours I was talking about in a few post up. You drive in a sucker rod at each spot you want a trail camera and then you can move your cameras around with ease. We attached a T nut to tighten the camera to the sucker rod, so nothing could bump it to make it turn.