Let's see some "Do it Yourself Hunting Items" you can't buy in a store

[Rembrandt]

Recently built a heavy duty hitch hauler with fold down ramp, should make it a little easier to drag deer up or transport the snow blower. Now I need to find a big buck that's worthy of the weight capacity.

hps1.....I like your vertical pole to hoist game with, may have to add that to this.

 

[DM~]

 

[DM~]

DM

 

[hps1]

Nice carrier! A pole might make it easier to load but a piece of 1/4" plywood to fit tray might be a big assist if moved to ramp when dragging deer sized animal up expanded metal ramp?? Or just a hand crank boat trailer wench winch mounted on left end of your tray and the plywood would be very similar to the drawer in my truck and that would work, well for bigger deer.

hps1.....I like your vertical pole to hoist game with, may have to add that to this.

My chair has been a work in progress over the years. Started out as hunting chair for night hunting coyotes only. Got tired of removing chair, emptying truck bed to load nilgai, etc. in bed and cleaning up the blood afterward, so added 1.5" schedule 80 pipe boom to chair @ 45* angle.

Worked well until it didn't. Shot this big cow about 5 miles from camp, had to stop 6-8 times, as pipe continued to bend, to re-tie before we got her to camp.


As it turned out, the bend wasvery close to 45*, so just welded 2 pieces of 1/4" angle iron to end of pipe to index pipe in square tubing socket and turned it vertical which worked well as long as it was used on the truck.

But then mounted on jeep. Again worked well...until it didn't . We were hauling another bigger cow when it sounded like a pistol shot in the back seat! Turns out, since the jeep receiver is bumper mount as opposed to the frame mounted truck hitch, the weight had pulled the threads on main bumper mounting bolt. Big problem as the nut is welded inside frame and totally inaccessible. Managed to chase threads w/US size tap and almost got full thread; used grade 8 bolt and it has held so far. To be safe, I moved the boom as close to receiver as I could get it to reduce mechanical advantage of the rear mount. Still use only top section of boom in rear mount for lighter hogs though. (Boom had to be cut to 3 short jointed sections as there was nowhere to carry it full length in or on the jeep.)


@dm Boy, talk about a well earned buck!! Beautiful workmanship, sir.

Edit to correct spelling: "wench winch" Gotcha, spellcheck. LOL

Regards,
hps

 

[Rembrandt]

DM~, If those timbers were hand hewn it might look like something the Amish would build, post and beam construction and heavy duty roof decking. Very nice! My 100+ year old barn is built like that, only they used wood pegs to hold the joints together.

Hps1....at first glance thought you had some mighty big whitetails! ....then I saw the tail and realized what it was.

 

[Rembrandt]

Found the big issues with tree stands was getting safely in them. Came up with home made ladders lag bolted to the tree. Two piece design, 10 foot sections that slide together. Rebar gives the steps some tread.

 

[DM~]

Found the big issues with tree stands was getting safely in them. Came up with home made ladders lag bolted to the tree. Two piece design, 10 foot sections that slide together. Rebar gives the steps some tread.

You only do that on your own land, right??

IF, some one put a ladder like that up on MY property, it's not going to end up well for them...

DM

 

[Double Naught Spy]

You only do that on your own land, right??

IF, some one put a ladder like that up on MY property, it's not going to end up well for them...

DM

Surely you would not be dumb enough to allow people to hunt your land without explaining the rules to them. So why the posturing?

 

[DM~]

Surely you would not be dumb enough to allow people to hunt your land without explaining the rules to them. So why the posturing?

Posturing, what posturing?

That was a legit question, and I'm still wondering what the answer is.

DM

 

[Rembrandt]

You only do that on your own land, right??

DM

That's correct, the timber we have has no commercial value. Some of the stands that have been in place for over 25 years.

 

[Armored farmer]

I have this project ongoing....
It's a 16'x8' cabin/deerblind on wheels.
I'm thinking that I could spend the night, and wake up opening morning in the deer woods. Who doesnt want biscuits and gravy while watching for a deer out the window?
I'm planning to insulate, wire for solar/battery/inverter 120v power and propane radiant heat. I'm on the prowl for a camper sized stove /oven.
The project is at my Amish neighbors house getting exterior tin, roof, soffer, etc. They're in the tin business.
More pics when I get it back home.

 

[jmorris]

Back when game cameras were 35mm I found them less than useful in that you had to get the film developed to see what was there last week. So I built a digital one before they could be bought.



Some time after that I decided that knowing what was there was less than useful so I built radios that would play back a pre recorded location message so I knew when and where while they were there.



Last year I threw together a trap that allows me to catch them then go get them.

 

[Rembrandt]

jmorris, that hog gate is fantastic! Know hogs are quite a nuisance in your part of the country, up here they're money on the hoof waiting to get loaded in the stock trucks.

Armored farmer, like your "hunt'n cabin". We have a few farmers that have done the same thing with old wagon running gear, but not as nice as yours looks to be. Couple of people should be able to sleep comfortably in a space. If you have grand kids they will love playing in it.

I'll try to post some pics of the tower blind the kids and I built using power line poles.

 

[earlthegoat2]

It is amazing how quickly even an expensive welder can pay for itself.....if you know how to use it. I have a pretty good amount of metal and woodworking projects of which only a few are hunting or shooting related and that is only a secondary use. A few are in process.

Here is a reloading bench.



Milling the lumber for and building my garage lean to that I use to hang game.





Belt grinder I made for knife making. Mostly gets used for mower blade sharpening. Zillions of uses really.

 

[Enfielder]

It is amazing how quickly even an expensive welder can pay for itself.....if you know how to use it. I have a pretty good amount of metal and woodworking projects of which only a few are hunting or shooting related and that is only a secondary use. A few are in process.

Here is a reloading bench.

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Milling the lumber for and building my garage lean to that I use to hang game.

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Belt grinder I made for knife making. Mostly gets used for mower blade sharpening. Zillions of uses really.

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I spy a leftover timing belt pulley on the sander.

 

[Rembrandt]

This is our home made "Tower Blind". Constructed on 30+ foot power line poles. Footprint is 8'H X 8'W X 12'L. Pre fabricated it in a garage over the winter months, after the walls were painted the grand kids came by and did the camo tree pattern with spray cans.

Probably did it the hard way, off ladders.....raised wall sections to the top with a pulley system and ATV winch. Once in place the walls were bolted through the poles, addition of a deck was sort of an after thought which worked out quite well.

More pics to come....

 

[Armored farmer]

This is our home made "Tower Blind". Constructed on 30+ foot power line poles. Footprint is 8'H X 8'W X 12'L. Pre fabricated it in a garage over the winter months, after the walls were painted the grand kids came by and did the camo tree pattern with spray cans.

Probably did it the hard way, off ladders.....raised wall sections to the top with a pulley system and ATV winch. Once in place the walls were bolted through the poles, addition of a deck was sort of an after thought which worked out quite well.

More pics to come....

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Excellent
Excellent......
I hope your bunch has as much fun in that as we have in ours.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I spy a leftover timing belt pulley on the sander.

Which one? I bought them all from McMaster-Carr. Haha.

 

[jmorris]

One of the old stands from when we had let the feeder run out and a crowd gathered behind us while filling it.



A tripod mount to hold a rifle ready to kill the coyote that was eating my chickens, just crack the door and go.



A bump gate that has lasted so many years longer that I would have ever expected. No telling how many hours it has saved going from one fenced in area to another over time. Even when it was built all the parts were busted, from the dead motor that is the lower bearing to the broken garage door spring that returns it to center or bent up T posts. The only thing more surprising is that Bulls will tear up the fence 20 yards away trying to get at one another but in decades they haven’t figured out they could just walk right through the open door.



One of those “why did it take that long to think about it” ones, wondering why different cameras at different locations didn’t seem to reflect traces of activity, a camera test mount, for side by side comparison.

 

[Rembrandt]

earlthegoat2, that's a pretty steady hand on the chainsaw to make those straight cuts, nice. Get an anvil to go with that grinder and you'll be auditioning for "Forged in Fire".

Some more pics of the finished tower blind....

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Your blind is bigger,and nicer, than my first apartment.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Posturing, what posturing?

That was a legit question, and I'm still wondering what the answer is.

DM

Posturing? Questioning if it was his land and the threat if that was on your land.

 

[DM~]

Posturing? Questioning if it was his land and the threat if that was on your land.

Well, he answered me and didn't waste bandwidth like you have done...….now, twice! lol

DM

 

[FL-NC]

We used to make our shooting sticks out of 3/4 inch wood dowels from Lowe's and 550 cord. We would glue camo material on them bought from the crafts section at walmart.