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RE: build your own or buy?
 

I build my own stationary stands and, for me, it's cheaper than purchasing the metal ones.
I get old, used pallets from my place of employment for free. The only components I have to pay for are the two 4x4 posts, one 2x4, and various nuts/bolts.



Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 AD - 100 AD)

RE: build your own or buy?
 

I have two 15 foot metal stands from cabelas 69$ and 7 permanent wooden ladder stands. The 2 metal stands I use for both ny and pa. I put the metal ones up for only the 2 weak gun season. Or if I find a hot spot late in archery I might throw one up. If you leave them up much longer they start to squeak. The metal stand are probably more economical and a heck of a lot easier to put up. However I enjoy building the wooden ladder stands. After putting up several stands with regular wood a few years ago I converted to treated last year. It is well worth the extra money for galvanized nails and treated lumber. A 16' wooden ladder stand cost me 60$ that is using grade A lumber (The cull piles were all empty). I Would recommend rounding up a few buddies to help put them up, they get ungodly heavy. If you ask me I would build one rather than buy. Let me know what you decide to do.
EDDIE

RE: build your own or buy?
 

Build your own out of metal if you can weld.Cheaper,last longer and easier to move than wood.








Edited by - ret3006 on 09/04/2002 01:51:14

RE: build your own or buy?
 

Those of you who build your own wooden stands...Would you mind posting some plans, or pictures. I have been interested in building a wooden stand for quite some time, but don't really know how to go about it.

Thanks;

I'll take good luck over skill any day!

RE: build your own or buy?
 

Well ive done all of the above, and decided to invest in a climber.
thats all i use now. (API Grandslam Bowhunter)....cant go wrong

RE: build your own or buy?
 

I use both.I have a couple of portable chain-on stands,a couple of ladder stands I made out of 2x4'',2 homemade steel ladder stands and a permanent stand made of 2x4's.

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I have a climing stand. but next year I going to build some permenent stands. I end up hunting the same spots every year. I end up moving the climer 5 or 6 times.

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You can buy decent hangin stands for 40-70 bucks nowadays. It's almost cheaper just to go ahead and buy one of those.

My mind belongs to my work...
My heart belongs to my family...

But my soul...belongs to the woods.

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I either hunt from the ground using my own version of a portable ground blind, or I build permanent wooden stands. This year I plan on building a few wooden ladder stands if the guy who owns the property I just got permission on allows me to do it. Plans? I always wing it, it depends upon the tree/trees and how high it is.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club