When picking up bait at the State Fish Pier for our lobstermen this guy pulls up with a mobile gas powered net reel.  Back in the day when we had draggers taking out at our dock the process of moving different types of nets on and off boats was a long arduous task. You needed a ton of space to stretch the net out and lift section by section of the net onto trucks.  It took a while.  Now with this type of set up you can do the work in one tenth of the space.

This rig is pretty slick.  It is built on a trailer and there is a hydraulic tank powered by a honda generator which turns the drum.  Once the net is loaded on the trailer it can be transported wherever it needs to go.  Just another innovation allowing the fishery to do more with less space.

Video coming at 1PM

Mobile Net Reel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.