Mud Buddy Shaggy pro blind

[3legged_lab]

Flight, if you need more pics let me know. The best place I found for the 1" strap and the buckles, even though I hate the place, is wally world. The strapping I buy off the roll in the fabric dept and the buckles, which are also in the fabric dept, are cheaper and stronger over in sporting goods in the camping stuff.
I recommend doing the belly bar, and having the straps go from gunnel, hook solid to the frame and back down makes it really solid.

[Flightstopper]

Thanks man, already have all the strap I could ever want from work. Good call on the buckles in that shit hole. Mine is going to be pretty short. Found when I started laying it out since my boat is narrow I can only make my frame 20" tall before it sticks out past the boat when down. Not too concerned about that though might be cramped but will still be better than sitting in the water out the mud. Will hide easier to. Have to get more bolts and buckles tomorrow, if I hit a snag I'll give you a shout, thanks boss.

[3legged_lab]

To get the height that I wanted the frame of mine sticks out a few inches at the front and it inside a few at the back.

What kind of cover do you hunt in? Tules?

[Flightstopper]

To get the height that I wanted the frame of mine sticks out a few inches at the front and it inside a few at the back.

What kind of cover do you hunt in? Tules?

No tules here, have a couple spots with cattails to suck up into to. Or just hug the bank under the overhang of trees.

[jehler]

I got mine roughed out today and think it's gonna work just fine. Have been wanting to do this for years but kept thinking about doing some fancy over engineered flip top blind. Should have just done this a long time ago. Going to go cut reeds to make mats for it now. So far I'm $9 deep.

what the fuck are you using the masons chisel for?

[Flightstopper]

I got mine roughed out today and think it's gonna work just fine. Have been wanting to do this for years but kept thinking about doing some fancy over engineered flip top blind. Should have just done this a long time ago. Going to go cut reeds to make mats for it now. So far I'm $9 deep.

what the fuck are you using the masons chisel for?

The output shaft seemed a little out of skelter so I knocked it back true.

[3legged_lab]

To get the height that I wanted the frame of mine sticks out a few inches at the front and it inside a few at the back.

What kind of cover do you hunt in? Tules?

No tules here, have a couple spots with cattails to suck up into to. Or just hug the bank under the overhang of trees.

I was just going to tell you that best tool I've added to the boat for getting hidden is a hand sickle. Cut more tules, and faster than the little 8" hand shears.
At the spot where I want to hide the boat we'll cut out a starter path to make it easier to get the boat pushed in. We pile them in the boat, then once we're in place with the blind up we add all the cut stuff (in my case usually reeds or tules) on top of the blind. Pretty much makes it look like a big muskrat den, and it breaks up the straight line that is the top of the blind.

[Flightstopper]

Always at least one machete in my boat. Have seen some guys go to town with a sickle though. Need to track one down. Expensive?

[Redbeard]

Sweet blind JR!

[3legged_lab]

Always at least one machete in my boat. Have seen some guys go to town with a sickle though. Need to track one down. Expensive?

2 bucks at a yard sale. My buddy almost took a finger off w/ a machete one year so we stick with the sickle.

[assateague]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

[3legged_lab]

Sweet blind JR!

Thanks. It gets the job done.

[Flightstopper]

How about this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Hook-Trimmi ... d_sim_hg_6

[huntntech]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

Its the same way here. They will give you a ticket just for having a 'cutting device' in the boat while hunting, if they find it.

[3legged_lab]

How about this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Hook-Trimmi ... d_sim_hg_6

That looks almost identical to mine, only mine is probably 40 or 50 years old.
Just remember to turn it away from you when you cut or you'll be buying new waders. Lol

[3legged_lab]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

You're not allowed to do a lot of things, legally, but that doest usually stop you.... allegedly.

[Flightstopper]

Ha ha so swing it like a machete just AWAY from your person?

[3legged_lab]

Ha ha so swing it like a machete just AWAY from your person?

I don't "swing" it. I grab my left arm around a bundle of tules, put the sickle between myself and the tules, and pull - doing a "slicing" motion. Let the hook shape of the blade do the work. If that makes sense, kind of hard to describe.

[Flightstopper]

Gotcha, never used one before and those two little tips sound to be worth their weight in gold lol

[The Duck Hammer]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

Tell them you own the vegetation.


Sent from a cutdown OLT

[Flightstopper]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

Tell them you own the vegetation.


Sent from a cutdown OLT

He sure as hell does, his rain water tax paid for the hydration of the vegetation.

[The Duck Hammer]

I agree.


Sent from my Vox Mortem

[Feelin' Fowl]

I'm not allowed to cut natural vegetation. Legally.

Tell them you own the vegetation.


Sent from a cutdown OLT

He sure as hell does, his rain water tax paid for the hydration of the vegetation.

50/50 Assa didn't pay that tax...

[3legged_lab]

Was meaning to take this pic for flight, but now see that cutting vegetation seems fitting for assa. Takes only a couple minutes with the sickle.

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Then I place them all on top to elimate the black hole.

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[Flightstopper]

Love that sickle, got to try it on some cockleburrs last weekend and tore right through it. Problem is I can't find any blind material to cut that isn't someone's pond decoration.

[3legged_lab]

Love that sickle, got to try it on some cockleburrs last weekend and tore right through it. Problem is I can't find any blind material to cut that isn't someone's pond decoration.

Ha ha!
Are they awake at 0500?

[Flightstopper]

neighborhood"Lake" by my inlaws is loaded with reeds. Those old fuckers around it have nothing to do besides walk their prissy little gator bait dogs around it. That or I'd get busted Thanks to their incontinence.

[3legged_lab]

View from work the spread