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Here's a stand I've been working on thought I'd share. Floor is a combo of 2" square and 1.5" square rest is 1.5" angle for uprights. More to come in the next week or 2. Gonna set 4 poles 10' out of ground to put it on. Pic is sideways sorry, don't understand this ipad Attached Images
Reply:Super nice. I like it!!I don't understand ipad either....but then again I don't have one...I am not an apple/mac fan. When you get that thing mounted up get some more pics up, we would all love to see the final product.seabee78
Reply:will you be setting a salt block in the vicinity of the stand?I offer three choices: Good, Fast, & Cheap. You may pick two.Hobart AC/DC StikMate LXHarbor Freight AD HoodHarbor Freight Industrial Chop SawDeVilbis 20 Gallon, 5 HP Compressor
Reply:No salt blocks. I've made a couple out of just sheetmetal and square tubing, thought i'd try something different this time. Sheetmetals just really too noisy on the bottom so I framed it with 2x4's and am gonna using hardi backer siding for shooting rail down and sheetmetal up top. I also thought insulating it and all this way it'd be warmer. It'll be my wifes main hunting stand. Gonna concrete 2" schedule 80 pipe in the ground for poles sit this on time and weld away. Will post pics once all is said and done. I'll attach a pic of one of my old ones. Also this is my first project since I've got my millermatic 200 and I am loving it. Attached Images
Reply:Cool stand...Looks like you need about another 8" of drop on that Hitch though! Cheers,Miller Diversion 165120 amp Buzz BoxVictor Oxy/Ace Oxy/LPGSmith "Little" Oxy/LPGHypertherm Powermax 30Lot's of Misc. tools n' crap....
Reply:Originally Posted by nadogailwill you be setting a salt block in the vicinity of the stand?
Reply:Originally Posted by docwelderwow! a living room sized deer stand with a salt lick underneath. it's too bad you just can't shoot from the bedroom window?! haha seriously now, not being a hunter i thought a stand was something that was situated in a tree and a blind was a camouflaged structure on the ground?
Reply:Ya I could use a little more drop but it works haha. Hey its only 5x5 and it'll be up on poles in amongst some trees. These are the stands my wife mainly hunts out of I hunt in trees in the woods. I like making them big enough so after I get mine, I can sit in the stand with her. Here in northeast texas its pretty much what everybody has, gotta be up and gotta be hid or they'll pick you out in a second.
Reply:You set something like that up around here, and someone would make it into a meth lab in a week. Here is what I think of for a deer stand. If you cant fix it with a hammer, it must be an electrical problem."Boy, everyone starts with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck is empty."-Grandad circa 1990ish
Reply:Originally Posted by larpheadYou set something like that up around here, and someone would make it into a meth lab in a week. Here is what I think of for a deer stand.
Reply:Nice job on the deer stand! Nice SAS Runner pulling it too!!
Reply:Originally Posted by OatsyNice job on the deer stand! Nice SAS Runner pulling it too!!
Reply:we have a few "box stands" like that here... Or I as i call it the snow cone stand. my friend has a large farm, lots of open fields so these work great along the edges, also nice if someone wants to hunt with you. but in the woods we use a traditional style "tree" stand. Im ready for next season already!
Reply:I just made my last pack of stew meat. Darn I can't wait for next year. Two deer sure don't last too long.
Reply:Finally got it up today, just gotta go back and put and X in it to stabilize it and make my ladder for it. Been too busy on other projects here lately to get to it. Attached Images
Reply:Here's mine, it's 4x7 x6.5 tall and 8' legsAnd inside, watching bubble guppies
Reply:Oh, and here's my "salt block"
Reply:Thats freaking nice. Would like to have done mine with windows but if the deer around here hear the slightest sound they're gone so I just deal with the cold.
Reply:Fellows I am glad to see some tree stand projects. I like the lift kit on the toyota. I have been a member about two weeks and the project that I was going to post for my first project here is a shooting house. I was kinda hesitant to memtion it. Some of my neighbors think I am crazy.I already have a few photos to post. I have had one heck of a time just starting a thread much less posting photos. To give you the scoop on the stand I in my younger years started out sitting on the ground, used climing tree stands, buck on tree stands,triposds ladder stands, ground blinds,and various types of shooting houses . Now that I have twin 29 month old grand daughters to take with me hunting I am building some that I can heat and is little feller confortable and portable.The one that I am building is constructed out of the following : House construction all metal. Constructed of 10 each insulated mobile home doors, 2 for the floor ,2 for the roof and 2 for each side. This will be mounted on a 2 in x 2 inch rectangle frame that will support the house to my hydraulic tower. As soon as I can figure how to get the photos off my phone to my computer I will post the house part and then start posting the hydraulic frame for the tower and trailer. richey sweet home alabama
Reply:These door panels were screwed together with deck screws and fender washers. the will be mounted to a 2 x2 tubing frame. They are metal inside and out with insulation in between. We will put plywood on the floor over the mobile home door and then carpet for sound proofing. Note that the doors on the floor have several 2 x2 tubing cross members plus a perimeter frame and overlaid on the top and inside with the 3/8 plywood floor for strength. We are using 95 percent materials that we had left over from jobs from many years ago including the tubing, stairway materials along with an old equipment trailer that was left over from our construction days. richey Attached Images
Reply:The small windows at the top of the doors will have plexiglass over them where one can stand up and streach and still look outside. We will black out the inside with some dark paint. I traded some left over case equipment brown paint for some gray and green paint.We are going to use plexiglass for the big windows I think. Unless someone has a good idea on the forum.I will have some photos of the old trailer along with the hydraulic tower and cylinder a little later. I just have the 12 ft tower and hinges framed out and roughly tacked to the trailer. the bad part is that all my material has a lot of surface rust and I am having to clean up everything. The other down side is that I am going to try and use only material that I had left over from projects 20 years ago and I am having to go through a lot of junk . This will keep my cost to basically the cost of what I would get scrap price for some of the materials. I did find a new hydraulic cylinder left over from some 40 ton hydraulic ramps on the rear of a lowboy trailer that I think will be find for the tilting cylinder. I am open to all constructive and destructive criticism. richey
Reply:Sounds like a pretty ingenious and high tech deerstand, richey. All looks good to me more than I'll ever build. You should enjoy it once its all done and up
Reply:Here in Alabama we are not allowed to hunt over corn or any kind of feeder. We can hunt around planted green fields. I wanted a unit that could be moved to different green fields and set up quickly and safely on fairly decent level ground.The hardest part was getting started and trying to use what I haveto build with from the junk pile without having to purchase a lot of materials. We connected the hydraulics to the remote on the tractor and the stand does raise up and down off the trailer. Gottta put some x bracing in and then work on the steps and telescopic outriggers that will keep it from blowing over in the wind. I made photo with I phone and cant figure out how to get them downloaded without the photos being turned on the side when we view the photos on this site. Well may have to get the old digital camera out. richey
Reply:OK, here's mine!! It's 11 feet from the ground to the floor, and my son wants me to install windows!!
Reply:OK you guys got my juices flowing.I only bow hunt. Point me in the direction of a DIY bow hunting box stand I would love to build something the wife and I could hunt out of.Dave ReberWadsworth OhioI also bow hunt from a tree stand instead of a nice warm "condo". The dear in Texas are so skittish that opening a window would be enough to spook 'em. Even 17-20 feet up in a tree, I still get busted by the slightest movement. Who said animals were dumb?
Reply:Originally Posted by ReebsOK you guys got my juices flowing.I only bow hunt. Point me in the direction of a DIY bow hunting box stand I would love to build something the wife and I could hunt out of.
Reply:Originally Posted by chuckholeI also bow hunt from a tree stand instead of a nice warm "condo". The dear in Texas are so skittish that opening a window would be enough to spook 'em. Even 17-20 feet up in a tree, I still get busted by the slightest movement. Who said animals were dumb?
Reply:My windows slide left to right, quite and easy,One finger at the bottom and push it open. The most a deer could see is the tip of my finger.The only problem with my windows is they rattle back and forth, but if you look at my pic, there is a piece of paper towel folded between the two windows, that stops all rattling.
Reply:@ larphead - 'zactly. Employing a LoneWolf Assassin model to hunt whitetail via crossbow. Light weight and highly portable. But.......sure is nice to have a bit more room when the "long wait" becomes even longer. Ha!@ Luke87 - cool setup. Stand and da truck."Discovery is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Reply:Good looking tower Deerhuntre. Reebs I saw a shooting house that had a horizontal window slot and a vertical window forming a cross. The folks opened the window and the plywood that ran from top to bottom and shot out of it with a bow. This might give you some idea. richey
Reply:Originally Posted by deerhuntreOK, here's mine!! It's 11 feet from the ground to the floor, and my son wants me to install windows!!
Reply:Here's my brother in laws. Attached Images
Reply:wow thats more like a vacation home richey
Reply:What happened to the days when you went and found your deer. where you hiked and kept track of the wind direction and stalked? I'm sorry, You'll never get me to sit in a building looking at an auto feeder waiting for the deer to come to me. I'm sorry, but I just don't see that as sport. Now, I'm not so hardcore as to use a bow, or mussel loader, but I do feel that hunting should be just that, hunting, not sitting waiting for the "prey" (cattle) to walk up to it's feeder. ok, done ranting.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:Originally Posted by ThorsHammerWhat happened to the days when you went and found your deer. where you hiked and kept track of the wind direction and stalked? I'm sorry, You'll never get me to sit in a building looking at an auto feeder waiting for the deer to come to me. I'm sorry, but I just don't see that as sport. Now, I'm not so hardcore as to use a bow, or mussel loader, but I do feel that hunting should be just that, hunting, not sitting waiting for the "prey" (cattle) to walk up to it's feeder. ok, done ranting.
Reply:Here in NC you wait in a tree or a ground blind because they will see you long before you see them.__________________Miller MM252Lincoln AC Buzz BoxCentury 155Victor O/A
Reply:Don't get me wrong, It's not the sitting and waiting that bothers me. It's the comfy building and the bait that bug me. If you're going to sit and wait, by all means do so. but find a natural food source and do so in the weather. not in the comfort of an enclosed hut. and definately not with bait.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:Here in Wisconsin baiting is generally illegal in most areas as they don't want to cause the spread of CWD through close deer contact with each other. Therefore, we never hunt over bait and have placed our stand in a natural funnel populated with lots of oak trees.I enjoy four separate hunting trips, the one with the stand shown here, along with bow, blackpowder and handgun. The latter three trips are hunted from the ground, or I bring a carry-in strap-on stand. The main purpose of the "condo" was to provide a comfortable place to acclimate my son, along with providing a fun project that I got to install with my friends. And, it is FIRST CLASS for sure!!I love all the various flavors of hunting every year.
Reply:All I can say is I'm gonna be comfortable when I wanna be comfortable, if its raining or super cold i'll be up in it keeping warm. I got about 10 different stands ranging from ladder stands hang on stands tripods and box stands. I'm gonna hunt where I see the deer whether its on my wheat field in the woods or at the corn feeder. It really don't matter to me what anybody thinks about it all that matters is I enjoy it. |
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