I had just ordered a pair of weazel balls a few days before Varmint Al posted up his
Singing to the Coyotes Video with the New & Improved version of the Weazel Ball Decoy.
Shown here on his site.I had plans to make one of the traditional decoys, but after seeing his video & the "How To" on his site, I just had to build one.But I did not have a welder or any close friends near by with one either.I already had several pieces of 3/16" steel rods a little over 2' long, so I just put the end of one, in my bench vise & made a 2" long 90 degree bend, then I ground a sharp point on the other end of the rod, to stick it in the ground.I wanted to be able to securely attach the weazel to the stake & still be able to change the batteries & transport it easily.What I settled on, was bending the end of the rod to wrap around the motor of the decoy. I left a small amount of play in it so I could remove the decoy without to much trouble.I did this using my bench vise, a 4lbs. hammer & a pair of pliers. I had to play with it a bit to get it just right.Heres a picture of the rod I bent.
Heres with the Weazel Ball attached, I used a small piece of 1/8" Camo Bungee cord to hold the motor in place.
Like I said before I do not have a welder so I had to think outside the box a little bit, plus I'm notoriously cheap & I'm pretty good at Afro Engineering, so I had to figure out a way to make the little piece to stick out, that the tail of the weazel ball hits & makes it flip erratically.I took a 4" long piece of the 3/16" steel rod & bent it to 90 degrees.While still trying to figure out how to attach it to the other rod, I looked down on my work bench & saw a cheap Black & White, Bic Ink Pen, I pulled it apart & the 3/16" rod slid right inside with just a little bit of slop in it. A single wrap of electrical tape around the steel rod made it nice & snug.I cut the pen in half & simply taped it to the 3/16" rod, the small 90 degree piece I made slid right inside, but is snug enough that it doesent move when the tail of the decoy hits it.
I actually prefer this method to welding it in place, since I can remove the small 90 degree piece for easier transport which is another plus, but its also something else to misplace.The rod I started out with was 2' tall, but I wanted to copy the original design as much as possible, to make it compact & easily packable, but I did not have anything to couple 2 of the rods together, so I scrounged up another Bic Pen & removed the guts & used it for a coupler.I cut the 2' tall rod in half, I had to put a tight wrap of electrical tape on the end of the ground rod, so that the Bic Pen would fit snugly. I pushed it onto the bottom rod about 2" & its snug enough to stay in place.
I coupled the 2 rods together using my highly scientific "Bic Coupler" & it actually helped add a bit of motion due to the joint in the middle of the rod, which allows the decoy to spin 360* I painted everything kacki & olive drab (My 2 favorite colors in the world)Heres everything layed out together.
Here it is in working order.
Heres a Video of the Weazel Ball in Action.
Heres another video showing how to build one from scratch.Hope you guys like it.Thanks again to Varmint Al for posting that video up, Lee
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