Thread: Turning floating decoys into feild decoys

Gidday team.

So got plenty of floater decoys but am too much of a tight arse to buy dedicated feild decoys.

In terms of making a temporary stand for them using pvc pipe or no8 wire what have you done that works?

Just looking for ideas as I'm trying to save money and have the best of both worlds. Cheers!

cut the keel off them?

I should add I still want them to be used as floaters too

fill them with expanding foam , then they will still float

Use No8 wire to make a cradle/nest for them to sit in without modifying them if possible.

Dont fill with expanding foam as its open cell and will get waterlogged. Found out the hard way with one my brother shot to see how close steel will put holes in .Turns out it was 15 m .....

Sit it on a gumboot. It will just look like a duck wearing 1 boot

Go to 2 dollar shop buy some stainless paper towel holder...then fold on 90 deg angle and slot keel into it .easy as paint black to take shine off

I made some stands by taking a piece of pvc down pipe and cutting into 100mm lengths put a single longways split in the pipe section with a hacksaw. I got some mild steel about 20mm by 5mm and cut it into 200mm long lengths roughly. I pop riveted these to the bottom of the pvc pipe opposite the hacksaw cut and then bent a right angle in it to create a stake. I painted them with etch primer and then resene zylone flat brown paint. These c clip thingys push over the keels and then you stick the stake in the ground. They work well.

I bought some stands years ago -lost a few but ive used them as a rough template to make my own wirecoat hangers are cheapand useful Ive evern taken a few of those wire clothes drying racks apart(bolt cutters are a god send) and fabricated one or two although harder to work.no8wire would be virtually the bees knees .take a 600mmlength form it into a tight U shape then measure length of decoy keel +10%and mark it .on this mark put it in a vice bend at right angles . noe test fit to keel and adjust accordingly .
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