Thread: Cactus Huntaway DIY frame…

I've got a bit of a prototype together for exactly this. Works really well and transfers the weight to the hips nicely. Will build the "good copy" next few days and update here. Makes the Huntaway and awesome 3 day pack

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I've got a bit of a prototype together for exactly this. Works really well and transfers the weight to the hips nicely. Will build the "good copy" next few days and update here. Makes the Huntaway and awesome 3 day pack

Watching with interest.

Pretty simple really just bent it up out of 16mm aluminium tubing, hardest part was just getting the bends right and in the right place to make it sit really well. Think I've got it pretty good now, stiffens up the pack really well, pulls the top of the load in and transfers weight down onto the hip belt. I do have some alloy flats and might try riveting a cross bar across the top of the prototype one I made up to see how that goes but I think it might just create too much stiffness and feel like carrying a plank against my back.

The only packs I have seen with a flat on a frame like this have been the really old style units where the padding is made up of a series of laced and tightened flat strips of canvas. All of them with an internal frame of one piece of ali tube are U shaped with either one curve or bend in the legs or pretty much exactly like the one shown above with a curve and a straight section on the end.

I still have a couple here with the internal u shaped frame, works well. That one just up looks mint though, good as any commercial one I've seen.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Pretty simple really just bent it up out of 16mm aluminium tubing, hardest part was just getting the bends right and in the right place to make it sit really well. Think I've got it pretty good now, stiffens up the pack really well, pulls the top of the load in and transfers weight down onto the hip belt. I do have some alloy flats and might try riveting a cross bar across the top of the prototype one I made up to see how that goes but I think it might just create too much stiffness and feel like carrying a plank against my back.
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Nice pack that 😉

Originally Posted by H.M

Nice pack that ��

Bought it off some rough looking bugger

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Bought it off some rough looking bugger

That rough looking bugga is not wearing a huntaway pack tho is he?, looks a bit bigga than my huntaway. Awesomely made packs regardless

Originally Posted by turtleSO

That rough looking bugga is not wearing a huntaway pack tho is he?, looks a bit bigga than my huntaway. Awesomely made packs regardless

Definitely a huntaway

Originally Posted by turtleSO

That rough looking bugga is not wearing a huntaway pack tho is he?, looks a bit bigga than my huntaway. Awesomely made packs regardless

Maybe I'm just a bit "stout" there's some photos on here somewhere of myself and @dannyb backpacking a fallow each, same size deer, I look like I'm backpacking deer, DB looks like there's a possum clinging to his back

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Maybe I'm just a bit "stout" there's some photos on here somewhere of myself and @dannyb backpacking a fallow each, same size deer, I look like I'm backpacking deer, DB looks like there's a possum clinging to his back

I have enough alloy here to make a couple more of these if someone wants one, you'd just need to pay for postage (might fit in one of those XXL nzpost bags so probably about $17-$20) I'd put the initial bends in it but you'd have to adjust it to suit you

Yeah man, I would love one!

Originally Posted by inglishill

Yeah man, I would love one!

Send me your address and I'll get one on the way Monday

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Send me your address and I'll get one on the way Monday

Yep I will take one too, if still available.

If you have enough alloy I'd like one too please.