Home made Pot Puller and Boom (your thoughts)

[gasman]

I like to fabricate and instead of forking out the cash, I make my own Boom/Pot Puller, just hope it works 

Made of scrap I had laying around the house 

Mounts to a Scotty DR mount 

Using a Wheelchair wheel as a pivot wheel and and an old cast iron pully that has been sitting around the junk drawer for only god know how many years, just hope it hold up 


Any ways, what you think











And taken apart, sitting on the floor.



My plans are to use it for shrimp this season. Don't have a electric or gas motor, so this was my idea to make pulling 400 feet of rope a little easier.
one person can pull the rope and another can assist by turning the wheel with the handle I mounted on it.

[bowhunterforever]

That's a good idea

[Mfowl]

Very interesting and nice job! I could see it working provided it can handle the weight/drag of a pot. My brother fabricated our davit but it mounts directly to the Scotty mounting plate instead of the DR mount with the standard Scotty screws. You can also buy just an electric motor to add to a davit if you want to go that route in the future. I hope that works well for you!

[gasman]

Very interesting and nice job! I could see it working provided it can handle the weight/drag of a pot. My brother fabricated our davit but it mounts directly to the Scotty mounting plate instead of the DR mount with the standard Scotty screws. You can also buy just an electric motor to add to a davit if you want to go that route in the future. I hope that works well for you!

If you got a line on an electric motor for a reasonable price, do tell. I cant find one or figure out what motor to use 


Gotta guy on CL selling motor assembly for $350 

[Mfowl]

The craigslist guy is who I had in mind. We were gonna get a much better deal from him at the Portland Sportsman's Show but we went another route. The picture is of the davit my brother made. It mounts on the Scotty plate and a 4hp Honda motor mounts on the davit plate. It has worked well for us for a couple years.

[flinger]

Maybe a couple options

[gasman]

I need to check out a gas motor set up for use. Dont know if they are spooling right form the shaft ot or it they are using a gear reduction on them 

The side shaft on them motors are 1/2 inch, I believe, but the smallest Capstan I can find is 3/4 inch shaft.



As for the winch, I need to find one with an "open spool", the one pic above is not an Open Spool 

[Mfowl]

Pot puller motors do have a gear reduction. Usually 6:1, that's what ours is. I remember shopping some marine grade anchor winch's before we went with our gas motor. I seem to remember they drew a lot of amps to operate.
Brandnewengines.com  has a good selection. I was looking hard at the Briggs&Stratton 3.5hp Intek Pro w/gear reduction (6:1) before we bought our Honda locally on craigslist.

[wildmanoutdoors]

I need to check out a gas motor set up for use. Dont know if they are spooling right form the shaft ot or it they are using a gear reduction on them 

The side shaft on them motors are 1/2 inch, I believe, but the smallest Capstan I can find is 3/4 inch shaft.



As for the winch, I need to find one with an "open spool", the one pic above is not an Open Spool 

Your Scotty swivel mount will hold up fine. I had my ACE on mine for years.
Also, just the gear reductions are for sale too. You can add it to the gas motor.

[JohnVH]

howd it work?

[Mr56Jeep]

Ya... I'd love to know also?

[h2ofowlr]

I would get an engine on it.  I dropped 4 pots last year and decided no problem to pull them up.  The depth was about 275 - 325.  After I got the first one to the surface, I think most of the shrimp had jumped out and I had contemplated leaving the other 3 pots.  Worst experience ever.  The other three I hooked up to my Columbia River buoy retrieval system and yarded them up that way.  That is still crazy when you have a bunch of boats out and 300' of line between you an your pots.

[Rich_S]

I had to replace the slide-out motor on my motorhome last year. They wanted around $1,000 for a replacement gearmotor. I found this one for $179 and fabricated a mount for it.

http://www.easternmarine.com/tarp-gear-motor-wchrome-cover-5541095



For size reference, the pavers in the background are 12" square.

You do need to run this through a reversing relay. Look at the wiring diagram on the web page. The same company also sells an appropriate relay. They are a bit confusing to wire up. I screwed up on mine, thought the relay was bad but it was just the way I had it wired. If you do go this way and have any problems, feel free to PM me.

There is ample power in this motor to hoist an anchor. I would spool the rope in with a davit like a sailboat jib winch and coil it in a bucket like the crab boats do on The Deadliest Catch.

[lokidog]

That's a good looking motor, it would be pretty easy to rig that up for a puller.

Do you have to use the relay if you only want it to turn in one direction?  No reason that I know of for a reverse on a pot puller.

[JohnVH]

trying to do it on the cheap, I see wheelchair motors for under 100, which I read is the way to go..

What about a chainsaw which though? Thats what Im thinking of trying

[gasman]

OK, so here is the shake down..................FAIL 

The "swing" was a big fail. I didnt make it to hold tight,but to swing in and out with out a way to lock it in place.While pulling pots, the arm would swing in ward, so one person had to hold it forward while the other pulled in the pot.

The "rocking" motion of trying to keep it steady flipped the front pulley off and away it went to the bottom of the sound 

SO I made some modifications, I cut off the quick mount and welded a plate on the bottom and drilled holes in the plate. I can now screw it in to the Scotty mount for a rock solid mount 

I picked up a new pully from Sportco ($44) and squeezed the hook so it cant fall out again 


But, I had another fail last weekend  The wheelchair wheel that I mounted is to far from the boom and the rope kept falling off of it, so we still had teh front pully and that was way easier then pulling on the side of the boat.

Again with another change  gotta move the wheel right next to the boom, that should help with the line angel 


Rich_S, I like that motor,may have to pick it up and modify it to work with a boat roller 


Crab season is just around the corner 

[JohnVH]

First run of my home built pot puller, check this out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-prZicjPw0

[lokidog]

You know what?  I pulled all of my 300+ foot deep pots by hand last season, no big deal when I used the pulley on the boom.   I do like my puller though since i got the new motor back for the late shrimp season up here.

[wildweeds]

You might consider a gear on your main shiv/pulley and a spring loaded pawl on the boom that acts like an anti reverse should a wave hit and you lose control of the handle that think will become an arm/hand/jaw breaking weapon when the pot heads back down to davy jones's locker.

[lokidog]

You might consider a gear on your main shiv/pulley and a spring loaded pawl on the boom that acts like an anti reverse should a wave hit and you lose control of the handle that think will become an arm/hand/jaw breaking weapon when the pot heads back down to davy jones's locker.

One of those anti reverse anchor holders would work for that.