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3 sticks and duct tape - carry tape with you and find sticks - if you cant afford tape use old bale bind twine - never have wanted a camera to rotate but if you did reach down and move tripod

Tape it to a rock

LOL.....got to admit.Effective.Easy to move and rotate.Blends in and can't be blown away by wind.Don't have to pack in either.

How tall do you want it to be when set up?

I’m all DIY but when I see a dozen or so a month used collapsible camera tripods for $5. or less at local r
Thrift stores my time is worth that. But interested in others efforts.

tape it to the bobcats all around there if you don't have sticks - stack rocks -
or mount it on that feral dog....

Why do you need a tripod? wind blow them over if a tripod. You want for a trail camera. Get a electric fence post drive it in the ground.

Typical easterner! If he looked at those pictures, he'd see solid rock! Thats why very few guys drive stakes.

Coil of 9 Guage wire clipped to your pack and you can shape it however you need to.

Hey now, you'd consider me an easterner.

I saw the rock lol

Freind of mine bought a pickup load of
metal stanchions that are for this task.
Named Coalbamk on here.

Tracy, do you actually have a design, or are you trying to trick others into coming up with one for you? LOL

I use these a lot, just a scrap of steel with a 1/4-20 bolt welded on it at a slight angle. Can point upwards or down, the bolt tightens it up on the screw. Pretty adjustable set on rocks, downed tree ext. you could drill holes in the corners and wire it into a tree. Stack rocks to hide and stabilize. Pretty easy cheap setup.

wws

….. what you’re going to want to do is… sell all those city boy cameras… buy yourself a pair of blue jeans…. Take up drinkin and do things the old fashioned way

…. You won’t need any tryclopses or what have you then

how high off the ground do you need the camera?

Here you go Pete...

my cheapest design is a 5 gallon pail that gets you 15 inches off the ground stick a length of scrap 2x2 in it and fill with rocks , dirt and gravel, whatever is loose and near by

use the wood screw to machine screw hanger bolt to mount the camera

https://www.amazon.com/Yoliko-Hanger-Self-Tapping-Furniture-Threaded/dp/B0BRSK9KRG/

a little bulky but not heavy


my other idea is less bulky a wood block with some holes drilled in it at 45* angles in 3 directions some 1/2 inch light weight conduit
run a screw with a dulled tip into each hole from the side
insert your conduit and give the screw a turn or 2

a long 1/4-20 i bolt or peice of threaded rod up through the middle and hang a sand bag you fill on site from that

My granddaughter came up with a good one, she showed me a expandable plastic I guess stick with a swivel head for taking self portrait pictures with her cell phone.