Need some deer-stand plans
01-13-2013, 05:10 PM
#31
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NE Kansas
Posts: 9
Try www.greenleaf-designs.com I built the 5x7 Deluxe Tower a few years back. Made a few changes over the years. Platform is 12ft. All treated wood. All screws and bolts. I hope it lasts a loooooooooong time. Cost was about $800.
Last edited by boneyard; 01-13-2013 at 05:15 PM.
01-13-2013, 06:37 PM
#32
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Why not just get a hang on/ladder/ ground blind? This seems like a lot of expense and work for two acres of property...I'm just trying to work it in my head how you can hunt 2 acres, without most our shots being on someone else's land, (since I assume ou are a gun hunter as you seemed unsure about the archery seasons....
Props on buying property at 18 though.
Props on buying property at 18 though.
Do you realize the kid asked this question 7 years ago and hasn't been back on the site since 2007?
Last edited by Topgun 3006; 01-13-2013 at 06:39 PM.
01-13-2013, 07:20 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
Thanks, Wilcam 47. It might not be a bad idea to put up a 2X4 railing around the top. That would be handy to tie some camo. burlap to too if the doghouse was somewhere else. If 8 ft. 4X4's were used, that would get a seat height up to 9 and a half feet, or so. I think that if 10 ft. 4X4's were used, the platform frame should be made from 2X8's instead of 2X6's. That would be quite a bit stronger. Either way, the ground would have to be landscaped so that one leg wasn't in the air. The bag of gravel sounds good too.
The benefits of an enclosed blind with a roof are better than a ladder stand IMO...
01-14-2013, 04:19 AM
#34
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
"The benefits of an enclosed blind with a roof are better than a ladder stand IMO..."
Yep, I've got a bunch of ladder stands, but this is my "go to" blind if the weather gets bad as I get older. It's got a plywood floor on top of 2x8s that sit on wolmanized 4x4s. The sides are OSB covered with steel I scrounged from pole building scraps. The windows are drop down glass and the place can literally be heated with a match if it really gets cold. Where I hunt in northern MI this ground blind gives me a better view where it's located than if it was up in the air. Total cost was under $100.
Yep, I've got a bunch of ladder stands, but this is my "go to" blind if the weather gets bad as I get older. It's got a plywood floor on top of 2x8s that sit on wolmanized 4x4s. The sides are OSB covered with steel I scrounged from pole building scraps. The windows are drop down glass and the place can literally be heated with a match if it really gets cold. Where I hunt in northern MI this ground blind gives me a better view where it's located than if it was up in the air. Total cost was under $100.
Last edited by Topgun 3006; 06-09-2015 at 07:28 PM.
01-15-2013, 05:15 AM
#37
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
deerdust---I was totally aware of that. I was just advising of the OP date and fact that there was no way the OP would be reading the comment back that was specifically addressed to him. That is also why I made my other post showing my ground blind for the others interested in making one!
01-15-2013, 08:15 AM
#38
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: North Idaho
Posts: 1,071
Soon as the snow starts melting Im gonna build a few...4'x6' blinds...theres an abandoned homesite with plenty of viable tin roofing im gonna scavange...the house/property has been abandoned for 10+years and is just rotting away.
02-25-2013, 04:14 PM
#39
Super Moderator
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Location: Wisconsin
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