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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: Armadillo on January 28, 2011, 09:50:57 AM

Title: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: Armadillo on January 28, 2011, 09:50:57 AM: I know some of you guys must have pics of old, rotting treestands you have found. heres one of mine

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi4.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy135%2Fevorider%2FDSCN0060.jpg&hash=815f2833d16ddd36789e74a99cd7c34cc04c4180)
Title: Re: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on January 28, 2011, 09:52:48 AM: I seldom carry a camara when I'm out in the woods.. I've seen a few of those 'non-climbing' stands in the past. Nice photo. So, how long does it take moss to grow?

-Steve
Title: Re: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: Armadillo on January 28, 2011, 09:56:49 AM: the north side of the platform (backside) is completely covered in moss. Its been here at least 5 seasons and ive never seen any trace of anyone using it
Title: Re: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 10:21:02 AM: I've come across quite a few over here around the Potlatch/Princeton area while shed hunting. The majority actually look to be maintained.

I know of one down on the coast that's just boards across a couple limbs and it's ancient looking. I have a picture of it somewhere I'll try to find it.
Title: Re: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 10:31:03 AM: Found it!

My dad actually climbed up there and sat on it. Spooky to say the least he said, it was about 30 feet up overlooking a small brushy meadow in the bottom of a draw.
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Post by: Armadillo on January 28, 2011, 10:43:31 AM: :o I would not sit on that thing, that looks scary!! sweet find!. Makes you think how productive a spot might be when someone goes to the trouble of building these
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Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 10:46:08 AM: It was actually pretty solid. He didn't commit all his weight right away of course too lol
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Post by: Armadillo on January 28, 2011, 10:48:47 AM: haha sweet, it takes a certain kind of courage. Looks like strips of tree bark between those branches
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Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 10:51:18 AM: They were split, like an old split timber fence post split in two, probably cedar.
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Post by: Tony on January 28, 2011, 11:04:51 AM: I wish i had a picture of it but at the Nile there is a old dinning room table chair strapped to a tree probably about 100' up. I'm sure a logger or some one was just messin around but it sure makes you stop a wonder what the f---.
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Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 11:20:47 AM: Lol that'd be a sight. . . Hard to believe anyone'd actually climb up into that thing!
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Post by: Tony on January 28, 2011, 11:48:45 AM: I agree. It's on the edge of an old clear cut so thats why i was guessing a logger.
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Post by: JackOfAllTrades on January 28, 2011, 12:45:14 PM: It may not look like it... But this one has been there for years. The DNR/private land boundry is a bit blury where it is so I decided to move on and not use it.

-Steve
Title: Re: Old Treestand Pics
Post by: throttlejocky20 on January 28, 2011, 04:14:57 PM: I found this one right above a bait barrell I believe the wardens know about it.
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Post by: Alan K on January 28, 2011, 04:35:15 PM: Looks fairly maintained, *censored*.
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Post by: throttlejocky20 on January 29, 2011, 08:41:01 AM: We found it wile deer hunting. I sent my buddy to the left of this certain swamp and I went to the right. About a 1/2 hour into the hunt I called my buddy back to the truck because it was just to thick. When we got to the truck my buddy was telling me about the stand and said he jumped a bear. So I had to see what he was talking about. The barrell was full of apples and other stuff and the branches zip tied to the stand were still green. I left quick so not to get put on the spot by a warden. Last year my old man was archery hunting deer in a stand of timber in the same area and the warden had a sting set up. 3 wardens fully camoed about 1/2 mile in the woods started to ask him questions about the barrell.
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Post by: Jeffrey on January 29, 2011, 12:28:59 PM: Just the steps remain...if you wish to call them steps :dunno:
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Post by: alecvg on January 29, 2011, 01:11:21 PM: Don't have pictures, because it was burnt up in a fire. But there was one I sat in that was way up a ridge in tall timber, where someone had found a tall stump, where a big tree had broken off maybe 20 feet up, and he hauled a chainsaw in there, and cut a chair into the top of it, with steps leading all the way up. It was actually pretty cool, I really wish it was still there, it was a good spot to sit! A little spooky though, with it being on a steep sidehill, and on the downhill side it was probally thirty feet down.
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Post by: Armadillo on January 30, 2011, 06:29:51 PM: jeez that sounds like it was a king's throne!! ;)
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Post by: daddysprad on February 06, 2011, 03:47:27 PM: Finally found this Pic.
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Post by: JackOfAllTrades on February 06, 2011, 04:27:20 PM: Quote from: throttlejocky20 on January 29, 2011, 08:41:01 AM
We found it wile deer hunting. I sent my buddy to the left of this certain swamp and I went to the right. About a 1/2 hour into the hunt I called my buddy back to the truck because it was just to thick. When we got to the truck my buddy was telling me about the stand and said he jumped a bear. So I had to see what he was talking about. The barrell was full of apples and other stuff and the branches zip tied to the stand were still green. I left quick so not to get put on the spot by a warden. Last year my old man was archery hunting deer in a stand of timber in the same area and the warden had a sting set up. 3 wardens fully camoed about 1/2 mile in the woods started to ask him questions about the barrell.

Apples... Not pastries and bacon fat or molasis or rotted meat? It is not illegal to bait deer in Washington. While most people baiting deer would just put apples on the ground, in a barrel elevated so racoons don't get to them would be a smart move.

-Steve