RE: Playing the wind on small properties
Used to be faced with this scenario quite often. What I did (if I didn't have a stand setup for multiple wind directions) is just hunt off the ground. Or, just grab the climber and get up 5 to 8 feet. Some of the best hunts I've ever had I was just a few feet off the ground.
With only a handful of days to hunt from now through mid-November, I try awfully hard to get out in the woods.