Erecting tower blinds

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After watching dozens of YouTube videos, we had a system we tried that worked the first time. By the time we were on our 3rd blind, we had the entire process down to 30 minutes, and could have been faster if we had more than one cordless drill. We had a bunch of people to help, but our system could have been done with 4 people, a truck, a pull vehicle, strong rope, and a very long and strong ladder (to run the pull rope over).
 

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Nice....looks good.....we learned allot watching YouTube videos.... mostly what not to do....on our first one we miscalculated and had to set it down and adjust more slack in the rope....on the second one we had it figured out and it went smoothly.....they are very nice on those cold, windy and wet days.
 
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Great idea getting the angle of the rope set using a tall ladder.....also the narration was perfect in explaining each step....much better than most YouTube videos I've seen of the process.....nice blind.
 
The keys are:

1) Blind in the bed of a truck to help with initiating the lift.
2) UTV or other vehicle to pull.
3) Long, strong rope.
4) Long, strong piece of equipment to act as the fulcrum the rope runs up and over for lift. We used a long, strong ladder. 16+ feet long is a big help.
5) blocking the end of the legs on the ground so they cannot slide. We pounded t-posts into the ground right at the end of the legs, which were later used to anchor the corners.
6) Rope at the back of the blind to keep it from falling over hard once it passes the tipping point.
 
I watched a bunch of youtube videos and was able to build, erect, and stand up two 4x4 wooden towers, all by myself. Actually, one was 4x5. Heavy and with the roofs on. Can't believe I didn't have a disaster on one of them. Used a tractor instead of a truck.
 
That went well. Some very good ideas there. I used the loader on the tractor for ours, but I set the box on the steel platform.
 
This one was 15' to the floor. Erected it this way, lost lease, lowered it down and moved to new lease. You really have to anchor and brace the pivot post to the ground good, but it pulled up and let down easily.


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And after erecting 4 tower blinds, we went on to move 25 ladder stands, mostly the big 2-person ones. Followed by cutting a winter's worth of firewood. Wow, am I wiped out from working in the heat for a week.
 
Unfortunately, we had to coordinate all of the "workers" (my brothers) months in advance. We worked through what we were given weatherwise.
 
BSK said:
Unfortunately, we had to coordinate all of the "workers" (my brothers) months in advance. We worked through what we were given weatherwise.
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I feel your pain of coordinating all the workers. I've been trying to get the 3 grandsons together, it's like herding cats!
 
1st time I tried to erect a tower blind, just using several people, we snapped off the legs.

Have since learned better methods, such as using a tractor with a front-end loader.

In times past, I had built a few on site from the ground up, piece of wood at a time. But it's a whole different ballgame "erecting" one pre-built.
 
BSK said:
After watching dozens of YouTube videos, we had a system we tried that worked the first time. By the time we were on our 3rd blind, we had the entire process down to 30 minutes, and could have been faster if we had more than one cordless drill. We had a bunch of people to help, but our system could have been done with 4 people, a truck, a pull vehicle, strong rope, and a very long and strong ladder (to run the pull rope over).
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Not a bad job for a bunch of old men.
 
This was one of mine. As you can see, I dug post holes. also drove 2 fence posts in the ground on the backside. Used a 2x12 against the posts to guide the posts into the holes and prevent the whole blind from sliding toward me.
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