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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu ("Robert O. Anderson Jr")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Tree Stands
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.172415.29234@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 22:24:15 GMT
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barkelew@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Barkelew) writes:


      >I typically do all my bowhunting (for deer, that is) from a tree
      >stand.  Up 'til this past season, I have used a homemade one that
      >worked pretty well, and I have shot several nice deer from a tree.

I make my own tree stands, also. I can get 10 out of a 4 x 8 sheet of
plywood. They're very similar to a "lockon" type and are as stable
as the tree is. We put them up "perminately" in good places...with
permission, of course. Spring globbler season keeps us busy.

Pitiful ascii art follows:




                                |       |
                                |       |o < lag screw
                                |      /|      on back of tree
                                |    /  |
                                |  /    |
                                |/      |
                               /|       |<tree
                             /  |       |
                          /_____|       |
                        /  |   [| < seat
   1/8" cable(2)>   /     |    |       |
                  /  seat  |    |       |
  eyebolt       /   brace>|    |       |
 through      o            |    |       |
outside       |  |
corners of    o <lag screw into tree through 
 24x19plywood with 1x4 or       |       | the angle that's bolted to
 2x4 along outside edge                  the bottomside of plywood 
            
                        top view
                                                  
                      |<     19" or so >|        
                           
           eyebolts>  |o|             |o|  ^              
                      | |             | |         
               1x4 >  | |             | |  |      cables approx.          
         under each   | |             | | 24"      5' long           
           side       | |             | |  |               
                      | |      /\     | |  |                                  
                      | |    /    \   | |  |                      
                      |o|  /  this  \ |o|  | < 1 bolt through plywood,1x4,               
                      |||/ cut not as\||| _|_  and angle iron (angle iron          
                       || deep as     ||          swivels to fit tree)
angle iron  >   ||   shown     ||  

Always use a safety
belt.

Bobby

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