Fished my tree stand

[Forest Walker01]

Can't see much because of the leaves, will see better once they are gone.

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[mlammerhirt]

Very nice blind.....enjoy while everyone else is braving the elements this season!

[SteveNY]

Blends right in. 

 

Good luck in there!

[The_Field_Ager]

Do you sell corn dogs outta that thing?  

Edited October 21, 2015 by Papist

[fasteddie]

 

Old hay wagons work pretty darn good for blinds.  My buddy and I built this one on a farm in PA. that we hunt each year. We've killed a few bucks and a few doe out of it while staying relatively dry on some really lousy days.

 

 

Looks like Low Income Housing !

 

[fasteddie]

The guy next to my SIL's property has an old Horse Trailer way back on his property . He call it "The Condo" and has a propane heater , etc in there . Has shot several deer from there .

[DirtTime]

It's not a tree stand. It's a blind/hut. It looks like you have the windows right. I would have set it closer to the trees and painted the inside a dark color, but over all this is actually a good design. Good luck with it.

[wolc123]

My favorite blinds are made from old construction-style truck caps.  These have side doors that fold up, and ladder racks on top.   I build a 3 ft high, 3-sided wall on a deck, or an old snowmobile trailer and place the cap on that wall.  The solid end faces the prevailing wind direction.   I build an "upstairs" deck on the  ladder racks, again with three 3-foot high walls but an open top, for "good-weather" hunting.  

 

I have lost count of the does I have killed out of these, but still waiting for the first antlered buck.   I might have got my first last year, but he caught be napping and snuck to 15 yards before I was awakened by the sounds of his footsteps.   He bolted when I tried to slowly position my x-bow for the shot.  That worked out good for me a few days later when I killed his bigger brother from a nearby tree-stand.  That little nap probably gained me 15 pounds of meat and a couple extra points for my archery buck tag.   

 

Other big advantages of these truck-cap blinds are cost and durability.   I have less than $50 total in the three I have now.  People are always setting them out by the road for little or no cash.  Regular truck caps with sliding windows work ok, but those windows don't give the glare-reduction or extended rain protection when opened like the fold-out doors on the construction types.  Also, they seldom have ladder racks for making the "upper decks". For the one blind I made from a regular cap, I put the deck up on 6 ft. legs to make a mid-level, single-floor unit.

 

Speaking of "fishing", that action was better than the deer last weekend on my trip to the northern zone for opening of ML.  Just one little buck in range, not worth my ML/archery antlered tag.   The smallmouth bass were cooperative however, with 10 of them providing fillets for vacuum sealing on Saturday and Sunday.      

Edited October 21, 2015 by wolc123

[Jeremy K]

The craziest one i ever saw was at my old boss's property ,there was a bus ,like the kind from that movie speed, parked in the middle of a fully mature forest , it was hard to get back there with a 4x4 truck , we never even had a clue how someone got it back there.

[Paula]

Looks good

[Forest Walker01]

It will be going about 8 ft up next week

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