[Slowbrew]

I built one of these a couple years ago after seeing something similar on a forum (not sure which one). 

The big difference on my design was using 1/2 copper pipe soldered into a rectangle that extends over the sides of my kettle.  The frame I made is only wide enough to fit around the PVC coupler (sorry, no pictures where I'm at today).

This allows the bag to moved off to the side without removing it from the wort.  In my setup I can fit my IC in the pot beside the "spider".

I'll try to get a couple of pictures attached later.

Paul

[cheba420]

This allows the bag to moved off to the side

My bag is most often moved to the side as well! 

[cheba420]

So, I used the Hop Spider for our brew session yesterday. I gotta say that I like it. It made the hop additions pretty easy and didnt really get in the way at all. We were able to lift it out, place the chiller in and then replace the hop spider pretty easily. From the results yesterday, I dont see any reason to not use this on every batch moving forward.