Home made trail timer?

[Bear]

Has anyone ever made a trail timer? The kind that uses a thread across the game trail. Not a camera, but just a clock or watch that will show the time it was tripped. I bought one years ago but it was junk.

Or if you know of a good manufactured brand that would be fine too. As long as it's affordable.

[JC]

Alex, I knew a guy who made practically everything out of junk and I've never done it, he said he made a cheap trail timer out of a cheap digital watch using the stop watch feature. Glued the watch on a piece of wood he would screw to the tree, screwed a spring to the wood from a broken ball point pen or some such in such a fashion that it would push the stop button when extended, rigged a cotter pin to string to pull the pin and extend the spring. He'd check it every day, starting the stopwatch when he left and the string would tell him the time it stopped. Backtrack from the time you started the stopwatch and voila. I'm sure he fiddled with it endlessly to get it to work but once he did, I'll bet he only had a couple of bucks (if that) in the parts. He had a cool beard like you so it'll probably work for you too.    :D   I gots no other idys but that one for the moment.

[robtattoo]

Curtis Kellar told me of a good method, using a cheap alarm clock.

Tie the clock to a tree on one side of the trail. Set the clock to 12:00 & remove the battery cover. Slide a piece of polythene under the '+' terminal of the battery, so that it's isolated & the clock won't work. Tie a piece of cotton to the plastic & slide it out of the battery so that it's only justheld in place. Tie the other end of the thread accross the trail & leave.
When a deer walk accross the trail, it 'should' pull the plastic out from the battery & start the clock going, telling you exactly how long before you checked it, it was tripped.

[JC]

Leave it up to CK to have a better way to do it...

[Bear]

Thanks Joe and Rob.

I like CK's idea.

Sorry, I'm sitting here LMAO.        

When I started reading Rob's post I thought sure it was gonna read... "Tie a clock to a tree on one side of the trail, sit on the other side, shoot the animal, then walk over there and see what time it is."