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Post by sksfordman on Oct 8, 2009 20:50:27 GMT -6
Dewayne got the front window I screwed up fixed up and squared, along with the left hand side. He'll open the back window up tomorrow to 4'x18" and finish the door window framing, and build the plexiglas frames for the windows, and hook up the hardware, and pulleys, and locks on the windows. These pics aren't good, the sun was starting to set and the light was flooding the camera. Randy ]
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Post by ibugly on Oct 8, 2009 21:04:41 GMT -6
How much do you charge the deer to pass? Just kidding. Looks good. Next year you'll be hi-tech with web cams and a computer monitoring all directions.
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Post by caretaker on Oct 8, 2009 21:10:09 GMT -6
Looks like you got a plan comin together. Hope you get to use and take a nice un soon.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 9, 2009 16:08:16 GMT -6
We got two of the windows in, and the latches and pulleys and rope on those two window, I have decided to totally paint the window over the top of the new windows, and they will be part of the new camo paint on the whole blind. My son is going to paint the whole inside and out with an olive drab paint as a base for the camo. Dewayne's coming back in the morning to finish the two side windows, and install the rest of the hardware. I've got to go buy a few more 2x4"x8' and a few 1x6 treated to finish the sills and window trim. It don't like much now, and it will be in the field by Tuesday.
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Post by ibugly on Oct 9, 2009 19:04:45 GMT -6
Uh Oh. You go painting that thing Olive Drab and Caretaker be moving into it. He tells me he's partial to that color
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 9, 2009 19:58:45 GMT -6
How much do you charge the deer to pass? Just kidding. Looks good. Next year you'll be hi-tech with web cams and a computer monitoring all directions. I guess it looks a bit like a toll booth, and for the luck I've had trying to kill a deer, I need to set it up as a toll booth, but I'll start it all over again after mom's doing Ok with her back surgery. I hope to be in the woods lot by Thursday. My son and Dewayne is going to set it up, in a heavy populated deer area. I hope I charge a muzzle loader toll on a buck or doe on Saturday, and Sunday!! ;D BTW I is a high tech red neck anyhow!!
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 9, 2009 20:00:36 GMT -6
He/caretaker, is welcome to squatters right I guess!! lol ;D
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Post by ibugly on Oct 9, 2009 20:03:44 GMT -6
It looks fine. I twas just kidding around. If I had something like that when I was deer hunting I would have likely stayed in it at night.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 9, 2009 20:49:40 GMT -6
I can't handle the cold on the endstage arthritic joints, and I can now since adding the new windows, heat the blind with my LP gas Little Buddy 2 burner heater. Last year I found out what a mistake those house windows were when I had to keep them propped up with a block of wood, and having all four windows open at one time, like to froze me to death, and made me so stiff I couldn't hardly get out of my chair!!
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Post by caretaker on Oct 9, 2009 21:00:04 GMT -6
Great looking blind. i hope to be able t set up some kind of blind set up on the lease for next season. This season I`ll just get cold i rekon.
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Post by ibugly on Oct 9, 2009 21:13:42 GMT -6
The deer shouldn't smell the propane. I about turned my lights off once with a kerosene heater in my storage building. It was cold so I fired it up. I didn't have the door cracked wide enough. I started feeling a little light headed and looked over at the heater and the flame was dieing down. I made a quick dive for the door. I remembered using what they call flame safety lanterns on the ship to check spaces for explosives and enough oxygen to support life. If it pops and goes out that means explosive gases. If it died down that meant oxygen shortage. I didn't make that mistake again. Those things really take a lot of oxygen. More than you would think.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 10, 2009 7:37:59 GMT -6
This is a blind, and the cracks and places I'm filling are mostly voids left from the removal of the bottom half of the windows, they were cut out with a saws all, and one of the windows was put in a little off level It will still have many areas to draw air from, if I don't I will this forum to caretaker!! Randy
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Post by caretaker on Oct 10, 2009 18:59:57 GMT -6
Oh no you ain`t a bailin on me. In the inmortal words of Pat Paulsin " If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve.
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Post by sksfordman on Oct 10, 2009 19:06:06 GMT -6
I try to keep on keeping on Caretaker!!
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