Ask for permission to TRIM some lower limbs off the pines. You don't need a chain saw to do that TRIMMING either. A good set of loppers works just fine, I have a set of $50.00 29" Corona that cuts 3" branches.



If the land owner is raising the pines for lumber in the future you should get permission to do that. You can find a well used trail thru the area then start looking for the less traveled trail close but parrarll to the well travels trail. Use the TRIMMED limbs to make a ground blind some distance away I like at least 30 yards. Do that in several places so you can work the wind. Also keep your eyes out for funnels, narrow spots from one section of the woods to another. A narrow dry passage between a marsh, that sort of thing.


Al