Free Standing Wooden High Seat Plans?

fallowm oor

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Guys, does any one have any plans for free standing wooden high seats that they could let me have? Cheers in advance FM.
 
Hi fallowm,oor

there were some on here a while back, i've had a look but cant seem to link it for you. Have a quick search about.
 
Fallowm,oor

I have a BASC magazine (sept/oct 2011) that has an article in about building a free standing highseat, it has all the info you need. My better half is the computer wizz and i may be able to scan it and send you a copy if you like

ATB Andy
 
Hi mate I have some I can send you but I'm on holiday until Wednesday but will get them to you after that if you pm me your email address.

cheers

Prov :D
 
Ok no problem, good luck with the build, I was planning on having a go at building one later in the year so let me know how you get on.......

Andy
 
Have just read this thread and would also be interested in copies of these plans please.
Thanks
 
Thanks for all the help guys. I have now made the first one and its looking good. Cheers FM.
I personally am not overly interested in a high seat for my piece of "deer ground" but I am sure that others might well be so is there any chance putting up a few photos and the plans for the one that you have just built so that others might benefit from your DIY skills mate?
 
For me the 3 most important parts of any seat is the rail height, distance to the last ladder rung, the ability to turn and take a shot from the side. From what I have read most people spend 2 hrs max in a seat.

How we sit is not how we shoot, you need the ability to change from the long period sitting back into a shooting position. 99% of estate seats I have sat in the rail height is to low and being left handed they are set on the rides for the cursed right handed people lol...

There is a very good chance who ever is reading this is sitting down in a seat they use every day, plus a number will have a cushion some where in that seat lol.


The best example I have worked my seats off are school/collage chairs with lots of research has been put into there design as they have to work for a huge range of people.

For a few pounds you can sit in a seat work out the right height and build your box around you, I always tip the seat back a bit because when you build it you wont be trying it with all you winter kit on. It is surprising how much a few extra layers will push you forward.

With most steel seats the rail has some form of adjustment, that is not very practicable in timber so to take full advantage of a wider ark then once you have found the right height I would use it all round.

Keeping a steady rest for the one chance you might get all day is top of my list so with my seats I worked the size so I can jam myself against the seat frame.

With ladder/legs/braces the angles in steel is easy to produce, free standing seats need a good foot print so the angles are compound. Bolting off steel plates set at the right angle would be my way forward...

Tim.243
 
The BASC design how I built it. Our standard dimensions are slightly different so some mods required. There are things that I don't like about the design and can do much faster, cheaper and lighter.
 
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