I ordered a “poor man’s steadycam” from steadycam.org and Trey and I went down to the lake’s spilllway to test it out.

From the “do-it-yourself” images on the web site I expected the thing to look like junk but it is actually a really nice polished looking apparatus complete with caps on the ends and foam grips. Definitely worth paying the $39.99 for it instead of building it myself with parts from Home Depot that cost $14.