Breaking Things up a little......with paint!!
04-14-2012, 01:15 PM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Shelby NC
Posts: 96
Breaking Things up a little......with paint!!
I should have plenty of time for the smell to die down from the paint. Paint is part of the manufacturing process in many things so I'm hoping I didn't add to the detectability.
I added some tape to the sticks to dull down when things hit together during the installation and take down process and also added some pieces of rubber/neoprene material cut from my old seat covers that I sprayed down with scent killer and hung in the sun for 3 days where the lone wolf folds down. Will dull down that metal on metal clank if I slip and the top falls against the platform.
I added some tape to the sticks to dull down when things hit together during the installation and take down process and also added some pieces of rubber/neoprene material cut from my old seat covers that I sprayed down with scent killer and hung in the sun for 3 days where the lone wolf folds down. Will dull down that metal on metal clank if I slip and the top falls against the platform.
04-15-2012, 05:57 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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As a matter of the routine maintenance of my ladder stands. climbers, stick-ladeers and lock-ons, I clean them, brush off and rusty areas, re[place any questionable bolts and repaint. Usually during Feb. - March time frame. I use flat "cammo" colors, and no real pattern. Not sure it makes one iota of dfference as far as deer seeing the ladders as something not supposed to be there, and have not noticed any deer spooking at possible residual odors from the paints.
I didnt paint anything from my viewpoint.
04-19-2012, 04:23 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
Thats a very good idea....and as You stated it will help the platform from being less detected....You do great work Brian! 
One thing I could never understand...all the different trail camera companies and the ladder stand companies all pretty well use "Black" Ratchet straps to secure their cameras or stands to a Tree...why in the World don't they drop a few more cents/dollars and make a Camo Ratchet Strap to hide it from being seen?
One thing I could never understand...all the different trail camera companies and the ladder stand companies all pretty well use "Black" Ratchet straps to secure their cameras or stands to a Tree...why in the World don't they drop a few more cents/dollars and make a Camo Ratchet Strap to hide it from being seen?
04-20-2012, 05:20 AM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
Just how I do it. I live in a woods and leave one hang from a tree. I keep adding to it as I look at it over time. If it hangs a week the stink isn't a problem. One thing I did was add a rubber mat to the base, it's sewed on with camo rope and I left the top black, camo'd the bottom. Keeps my feet warm like a blacktop road does in the sun and also keeps the dirt on my boots from falling. It also keeps me hidden when a deer is under me. I cut up a rubber mat people use to stand on when they work on concrete all day. Seeing through your stand made me think of it.
Yours look great, very nice.
Yours look great, very nice.