yeah home made plans woudl be GREAT
if you are willing to share with us all
i built a custome treestand, but its made for two people and it was almost 60 pounds of wood. but no one in their right mind coudl steal that thing in less than a week! and its been up since 2000.

I have constructed several platform tower hunting stands 16ft high. I built them solid! Each one weighs about 500lb. We moved them into the woods with a tractor and tipped them up. You would need the hulk and superman to move them.

The platform is 4ft square, and we put galvanized pipe for a railing. Then we wrap the top in camo, and it works great as a two seater, especially with kids.

Well my friends dad acutally invented the stands and he was thinking about selling the plans online but didn't want to for insurance reasons. I suppose I could take a picture and explain how there built w/o any risks. Anybody know if I can get sued if it fails and you get hurt using my plans? I'm not saying thats going to happen because they are really sturdy I just want to be safe.

I one once and lost the key. I took just a pair of wire cutters, and that was that. I would use bike locks like that anymore. There are much better locks out there.

I built this stand with 1" square tubing, 1"x1" angle iron, conduit, and steel mesh for the base. I secure it with 2 1000lbs ratchet straps and use climbing sticks to reach it. It's very quiet and stable and cost about 25 bucks to build. It took about 2-3 hours to design, cut and weld.
I just bought a TIG welder and my next one will be aluminum. The one shown weighs 21lbs. Oh yeah, I put a pine board for a seat on it, bolted to seat frame with long self tapping machine screws.

Dave, very nice? Want to sell a few?