Originally Posted by Jenks

I have been ruminating about building a stand. I am an older guy and will have to haul it to the farm in a pickup. I will not set the legs in the ground because I may want to move it. I will use four treated 4X4's for legs, either eight or ten feet long. I will build the platform by strarting with two five ft. treated 2X6's and nailing a treated eight ft. 2X6 outside the ends of the five footer to make a rectangle. I will put a couple of five ft. joists across too. I will bolt the end of the 4X4 to the five ft. ends at each corner, spaying then out a foot or so, so that the footprint will be about 7'X8' or so. I will nail a treated eight foot 2X6 on top over the ends of the 4X4's leaving room in between for a 4X8 sheet of plywood, which I will remove when the season is over and put under cover. The ground ends of the legs will be placed on concrete stepping blocks or something like that to keep them off of the ground. The legs and corners will be numbered, the bolts removed and the whole thing placed in a pickup along with some treated 2X4's to be used for X braces on the eight foot sides and straight across braces on the ends to clime up on. A doghouse blind wil go on top, or a light frame to put up burlap to hide behind. After I get it to the farm and put it back together I can put some lag screws in the corners too and put the bracing on Any ideas? Will this thing fall down and hurt somebody? I already have scrap plywood, the rest of wil cost less then $200.