![]() ![]() Install a 2x4 floor joist in the center to help support the floor boards. The overall width of my stand is 32 inches, so the floor frame works out to be 29 inches wide by 42 inches deep. Build the platform base so that it will fit inside of the span created by the ladder.This is where the platform will bolt on to. Drill a pilot hole in each 2 x 4 at this location. Decide how tall you want the side walls of the stand platform to be and measure that distance down from the top of the treated 2x4. The treated 2x4’s will run the entire height of the stand.Know the limits of your carpentry skills, and the potential risks involved in constructing your own stand.Ģx4 lumber for steps, stand platform, seat base and braces, uprights and railsġ4- 5/16 x 4 hex bolts, with nuts and washers to assemble the standĢ – 6-inch eyebolts with nuts and washers to attach a ratchet strap to.Ģ.5 inch deck screws for decking and ladder stepsĬrosscut saw, electric drill, drill bits, square, tape measure. As a bit of a disclaimer, should you decide to take this project on for yourself, understand that your safety is in your own hands. With this new stand, I’ll have yet another comfortable set up to use when the conditions are right to hunt a buck from that location.ĭIY Deer Hunter: Build a Wooden Ladder Standīelow are instructions to build the stand. As the sole bow hunter, I am lucky to have the farm to myself during the long and quiet archery season. Even though the secrets out on how good this location has been for me, the other hunters are respectful enough not to build another stand in the vicinity. By constructing it, I’ll be claiming this section of the farm as my own during the crowded gun season. I’ve got a wooden tree stand to let other hunters know they’ve entered my zone. In that time, I’ve recognized it as a forgotten and ignored gem.īucks have scrapes and rubs to let everyone know they are around. Over the last couple years, I’ve been using hanging stands to hunt a 20-acre section that for a variety of reasons, has not been heavily hunted for a decade or more. Many of the hunters have “their” stand location and have been at that specific spot for most of their lives. Our farm has a fair amount of pressure on it during the 9-day November gun season, with up to 10 guys spread out over 300-acres of woodlots, CRP and harvested crop fields. It’s not just a stand, its Dan’s Stand or Mark’s Stand or Scott’s Stand. Even though a stand built on a shared property should be open to everyone, there is a very real sense of ownership if you are the one that built it. More importantly, the permanent stand expresses just that: permanence. Maybe it’s because I grew up hunting from them, but I just feel more comfortable in a home-built stand, especially when facing an all-day sit. There is just something about wooden, homebuilt tree stands. ![]() Building A Wooden Ladder Stand For Hunting ![]()
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