Free 186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook:  
Get 2,000+ tool plans, full site access, and more.

User Tag List

Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 11

Thread: Frog bat

  1. #1
    Supporting Member frugalolegeezer's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    Mound City
    Posts
    51
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 110 Times in 33 Posts

    frugalolegeezer's Tools

    Frog bat

    Just got done with a new project. Got to thinking about frog hunting with all of this snow and cold weather we are having here in northwest Mo. Thinking about warmer weather helps me get through winter. Had an old oak table leg laying around the shop and kept thinking about how to use It. I came up with this idea and it turned out pretty good. Predrilled the holes and inserted the screws with the drill then cut the heads off and sharpened them to needle points. Used a little camo paint and cannot wait to use it. Frog bat-frog-sticker-club-4-.jpgFrog bat-frog-sticker-club-1-.jpg

    186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook

  2. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to frugalolegeezer For This Useful Post:

    Hillwilly (Jan 12, 2018), Seedtick (Jan 13, 2018)

  3. #2
    Supporting Member hemmjo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Posts
    2,542
    Thanks
    224
    Thanked 1,446 Times in 820 Posts

    hemmjo's Tools
    You must have some serious frogs where you live. We just used to a 4 or 5 prong gig on a 6 foot stick.

    2000 Tool Plans

  4. #3
    Supporting Member frugalolegeezer's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    Mound City
    Posts
    51
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 110 Times in 33 Posts

    frugalolegeezer's Tools
    Well hemmjo I have quite the imagination, if you could take a walk through my shop you might think what a nutcase. My niece made a comment one day about how I would have made a good viking with some of the crazy stuff I come up with. I take no offense, by the way here is one of those frogs wanting in the house one evening. I guess he didn't want to go to ground for the winter.Frog bat-frog-004.jpg

  5. #4
    Content Editor
    Supporting Member
    DIYer's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2013
    Posts
    3,056
    Thanks
    772
    Thanked 1,850 Times in 1,652 Posts


    Thanks frugalolegeezer! We've added your Frog Bat to our Farm and Garden category,
    as well as to your builder page: frugalolegeezer's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:




  6. #5
    Supporting Member toma's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Location
    Serbia
    Posts
    124
    Thanks
    80
    Thanked 64 Times in 44 Posts

    toma's Tools
    Poor frogs, they have not any chances..against this weapon !

  7. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to toma For This Useful Post:

    Captainleeward (Jan 13, 2018), olderdan (Jan 15, 2018)

  8. #6
    Supporting Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2012
    Location
    Hinchinbrook QLD
    Posts
    323
    Thanks
    44
    Thanked 138 Times in 84 Posts
    We have a serious problem here in Australia with cane toads, (that were introduced from hawaii in 1935). We just use a golf club or a cricket bat

    Cheers Phil

  9. #7
    Supporting Member Priemsy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Posts
    44
    Thanks
    279
    Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts
    Why?????

  10. #8
    Supporting Member Frank S's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    Peacock TX
    Posts
    11,178
    Thanks
    1,974
    Thanked 8,766 Times in 4,195 Posts

    Frank S's Tools
    More over than not when a non native species is introduced into a closed Eco system under the guise of using the species for control of another the draconian science behind the idea backfires. The cane toad is just one such failed experiment.
    When I want a mess of bull frog legs I go gigging with friends. The gigs either look like small 3 to 5 tine pitchforks with barbed tines or spring loaded claw type snap gigs mounted on extendable paint roller poles giving us a 6 to 10 ft reach. when you are trying to harvest a bull frog that weighs as much as 5 lbs you are never going to get close enough to swing a bat at them. they will be 15 feet away before the bat can ever strike them. Working in teams having 1 guy shining a bright light on them while the other guy comes from behind is how we do it. Dang now I am hungry for a mess of frog legs and my gigging partners are 500 miles away.
    Never try to tell me it can't be done
    When I have to paint I use KBS products

  11. #9
    Supporting Member Priemsy's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Posts
    44
    Thanks
    279
    Thanked 13 Times in 9 Posts
    I can understand the cane toads we have them here down under, but ours are poisonous and kill a lot of our wildlife when they eat them. A lot of our other frogs are on the verge of potential extinction so I wouldn't like to see them hunted for frog legs. Nothing like the sound of a choir of Pobblebonks Just before a summer storm.

  12. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Priemsy For This Useful Post:

    olderdan (Jan 15, 2018), volodar (Aug 23, 2018)

  13. #10
    Supporting Member Frank S's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    Peacock TX
    Posts
    11,178
    Thanks
    1,974
    Thanked 8,766 Times in 4,195 Posts

    Frank S's Tools
    Priemsy, Bull frogs here in the USA are even farm raised in some areas. I am not aware of cane toads being here only in that place called Hawaii Maybe if they are here on the mainland the teenage future Darwin award winners who are eating tide pods for likes on facebook will discover them.
    Never try to tell me it can't be done
    When I have to paint I use KBS products

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •