Survival and Emergency Preparedness

Didn't get anything done on the blind on Saturday due to a family reunion. Spent all day at the beech and on my son's boat after the reunion.

Spent Sunday clearing the back ridge of brush and saplings below the new blind.

I finally got around to cutting the windows and stained the new blind yesterday (monday) Need to pick up hinges for the door and I should have some plexi glass laying around I could use for the windows. As I said this one came together much quicker than the first one.

I tried putting it on an elevated steel frame I had another blind on. I don't think that's going to work. It was higher than the first stand I made from pallets. The metal frame seemed kind of flimsy, not as sturdy for the much heavier new blind so I'm going to use wood pallets again. I have some 3 footers, but the other one is on 5 footers. Probably will go look for 4 or 5 footers. Don't need anything higher than that. Will have to check the places I got the crates and other pallets from to see if still available.

Pics when I get back up there the end of this week. I'm home just to see my mom on Wed & Thurs, then back north Thurs afternoon.

The new blind. Pulled out a tote cage to set the blind on. Its about 4' high. I think it'll be strong enough but not decided to use it. Probably going to keep looking for pallets to set it on.There will be stairs and a platform added

Checked all my regular places for pallets the last 3 days. No luck so far. Don't eally need to put the blind up until October so I have some time. Or I could just build a stand frame if I can't find pallets high enough to use.

Getting caught up with these posts.

Decided to use the tote cage so put the new blind up. Still need to build the stairs.

Built the stairs on the newest blind in early Sept. Works pretty well. I've sat in it a couple times while bow hunting but its not a bow blind. Best suited for rifle season.

Got an idea on another blind. Will be working on it the next couple weeks. Rifle season opens Nov 15.

So...I used the elevated platform from a blind I built a couple years ago but tore down this summer to replace it.

I put a pop-up blind on it. The deck is about 6' off the ground. The steel mesh top of the platform was 48" inches square. The popup blind was about 60" square at the bottom so i built a wood deck/platform over the mesh to accommodate the blind.


It is kind of scary with no rail around it so I went back and built a structure around it with pine poles to keep from falling out of it


This for rifle hunting not bow hunting..

Still deciding what to do about getting up into it. Currently using a ladder from a tree blind. I need something better/easier to use. Maybe build stairs.

It is a temporary structure. Will probably build something permanently on the base next year.

Actually my wife reminded me that I promised to build a tree house/blind for my grandson so this base will.be used some where else. The treehouse blind will be much bigger than this. This looks like a good spot for it so we'll see.

Been sitting in this blind pretty much every evening. It is kind of small but very comfortable. I have a swivel chair in it. Can open and close the windows when its colder. This is the blind I shot my 8 pt buck out of. I'll let one of my brothers or son hunt out of it during the rifle season.

Tried to put together stairs for the pop up blind platform. Screwed it up so I need to take it all apart and redo it. Only 3-4 hours wasted. Oh well.