Ideas for handle end of busted rods

  • epick4
    Posts: 25
    June 7, 2011 at 10:09 am #1272553

    I have several handle ends from busted rods where the tip ends are too far gone to restore. Any ideas for re-using them? Thanks in advance, Epick4

    abster71
    crawford county WI
    Posts: 817
    June 7, 2011 at 10:19 am #971431

    exspesive ice dippers, I prefer golf clubs myself

    herb
    6ft under
    Posts: 3242
    June 7, 2011 at 10:21 am #971432

    Rug beaters?

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    June 7, 2011 at 11:01 am #971437

    I had used a LEGENDXTREME handle and turned it into a fly swatter a couple years ago and gave it to Dean M.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    June 7, 2011 at 11:13 am #971438

    I cut one past the first guide and attached a line counter to it. I using for loading new line on reels. I can put the correct amount of mono backing under my more expensive braid and flouro lines.

    corey_waller
    hastings mn
    Posts: 1525
    June 7, 2011 at 1:09 pm #971467

    thats a great idea!! now I just need to bust a rod

    z-man
    Dousman, WI
    Posts: 1416
    June 7, 2011 at 1:25 pm #971475

    If you get them to just the right length, they make excellent apple-flingers. Just give two or three flinging rods to some kids, point them to the apples laying on the ground, and watch them dissappear (the apples, not the kids). What they miss, the deer get. No apples? No problem. Plant a tree.

    ekruger01
    Posts: 571
    June 7, 2011 at 6:55 pm #971583

    Pick up a couple cheap butterfly nets and glue them into the broken end, send the kids out minnow, or bug hunting…

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    June 7, 2011 at 7:03 pm #971586

    Cut the tip to the length you want, build it up with some type of tape, usually duct tape does well and then insert into the handle’s opening and duct tape to the handle for a great ice fishing rod!!!

    Mark

    smackem
    Iowa Marshall Co
    Posts: 956
    June 7, 2011 at 7:46 pm #971603

    Send them to Red Green he’ll fix em up for ya

    epick4
    Posts: 25
    June 8, 2011 at 11:31 am #971795

    Thanks for the tips and laughs.

    Tom- I like the idea of a line counter for preloading with backing. How much of the spool do you fill w/ backing and what strength do you use compared to the baided?

    Others, Red Green would have a full season of inventing at my place as I have “stuff” left from the family farm. I had to chuckle at the apple flinger. As a child, whenever we got in trouble with Mom during late summer or fall, we were sent to the apple trees in the yard to pick up “every last one of them apples” and wheel them over to the pigs.

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