i have had good luck hunting fence rows. i hunt in michigan also and some of my tracks of land has no trees for a stand so i sit on the ground in a fence row. much more difficult but with a little prior planning you can make it work.

i hunt on the other side of the state and on one night no lie we had 4 guys hunting on all sides of a hay field and we had about 150 deer in the field in front of us with no shots because of where they entered the field. in this case the deer are not predictable and i hope that your deer are because when they do the same thing on a semi-consistent basis you can make a sit on the ground work for a short time to get a shot at a good buck.