The first is making a flash board riser. Found them for a good price here (http://www.osceolamachine.net/flashboard-risers/) but they’re a 7 hour drive from me, and the shipping costs just about wipe out any savings I’d have from buying it locally. So I’m thinking of trying to make one out of a 50 gallon plastic drum. Will take some headscratching, but we’ll see how it goes. Im aware I’ll probably end up buying a new one.
The second is making a panel blind for a new lease we picked up. It’s a little over 100 acres, but doesn’t have a pit on it. The lease members all have layouts, but we want to have a blind over there in case we bring kids or guests who don’t have layouts. I’m skeptical of an above ground blind working very well but we have friends who have some good success out of them. I did a couple of cartoon sketches on my iPad and plan to do autocad fabrication drawings to work out all of the details so if I run out of time to build it, I can send it to a fabricator. Key decisions we need to make are do we want a floor and do we want a bench seat. Both of my answers to that are yes, but it needs to be modular so we can haul it out there in our trucks. I have an idea for that using pipe as pins. Also planning to build two of them 8’ Long so we can push them side by side when we have more than a couple guys hunting or we can just use 1 if there are only a couple guys there for a weekend. Makes moving them much easier.
