EDIT: OOPS! This is a screw-up. I thought I was posting this in the deer hunting forum. Didn't realize I had switched over to the Black Powder forum.
Here's my home made A-Frame ladder stand. About $60 worth of treated 2x4s, galvanized nuts & bolts, and some EMT tubing. The seat and floor units are angle iron from an old bed frame. The front ladder and back frame are each one piece (nailed and glued). The arm rest, seat unit, floor unit, and cross braces are attached with twenty 1/4" nuts and bolts. I can assemble it and stand it up on-site by myself, but it's a lot easier with two guys. Of course, it's only suitable if you have your own property or a lease.
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Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
That's my fair weather stand Heinz, for when I feel like sitting in the woods on a nice day. I do have a couple of nice box stands overlooking food plots (see picture). But sometimes you just want to sit in the woods and listen to the birds.
This is one of my box stands. Notice that the box sits atop the same kind of A-frame ladder configuration.
This is the view from that box. The corn feeder is 80 yards out. The far tree-line is 150 yards.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
I like those tent blinds also. They go up in seconds, and off protection from the elements. Granted when its -20 below you shiver in there like a dog passing razor blades, but if you dress for it, the rest is a matter of tuffing it out.
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IMHO they are too dang hard to move and set up. You would need a Chinook to pull that thing up. I'll stick to the aluminum ladder stands.
Semisane if that is your property you need to consider thinning the pines.
Semisane if that is your property you need to consider thinning the pines.
Wish it were mine Timbercruiser. That's what about 100 acres of our 9-man/900-acre lease looks like. You're right, this section needs a thinning cut. The timber manager made a "third row" cut on about half the lease two years ago. It really improved those areas and increased browse tremendously.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
Nice looking stands there semi. Looks like your all set for the upcoming season
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That's my fair weather stand Heinz, for when I feel like sitting in the woods on a nice day. I do have a couple of nice box stands overlooking food plots (see picture). But sometimes you just want to sit in the woods and listen to the birds.
