How To Build A Deer Stand

Last week I shared that Braumeister and I were going to deploy and perform final assembly of a couple of replacement deer stands.  The locations had already been scouted and brushed-out in preparation.  Located in the vicinity of their predecessors they were beyond the damaging reach of toppling ash trees.

These are constructed of treated lumber and make use of factory fabricated steel brackets that hold the four main posts at the appropriate angle along with the platform for a hunter to lurk.  The foot print of the platform is about a foot smaller (4X4 feet square) and the legs are taller (10 feet).  A nice, safe, comfortable and long term forest improvement that we have a really good feeling about.

Here is The Taj 2.0 going-up and with final assembly.  Each platform included a large ring bolt on one side for purposes of hoisting it aloft using the winch on the Kawasaki Mule.

Note:  The aluminum ladder is temporary and will be replaced with a wooden treated lumber ladder.