How Many SD Members Have Built Their Own Freestanding Wooden Highseats?

[mchughcb]

As I sit here designing a mobile freestanding high seat for myself and a few mates on a hog deer hunt, I've started to realise how hard this design has to be. It has to made from wood, assembled with a cordless drill and fit in his 1.2m boot.

I've built plenty before but without those restrictions. That got me thinking.

How many SD members have built their own?

 

[smokey]

put the rails on a roof rack but i build high seats regularly

 

[Mungo]

Yes.

And made a mess of it. Massively over engineered and really not terribly functional.

Looking for simpler designs...

 

[Nelson62]

I'm having a similar problem building a bench rest to fit in my car!

 

[Edinburgh Rifles]

build it in layers
not ideal for lightest design but when you build tapered frame designs that sit on top of each other, 2 -3 layers and you have a very high tower

its how the build electricity pylons


if you build the sides you should be able to stack them on a roof rack or bars

consider each layer here as a seperate piece

 

[mchughcb]

For my next question. How many SD members actually own a cordless drill

 

[Tim.243]

For my next question. How many SD members actually own a cordless drill

Better still, who actually shoot deer.........lol


Back on track, you don't need " hard sides" as in a square box. A rail around the top with some netting for cover " wood " lol lighten the build no end.

Being a steel man then I would make 4 sockets to take the legs, deck and rail up rights.
Slats for the deck sitting on a couple of joists for strength.......

Oh and a foot spar for your arches lol

Tim.243

 

[Chasey]

For my next question. How many SD members actually own a cordless drill

Sadly about a dozon of them in various states of repair / function



Building the seat is streight forward enough asuming you have some basic carpentry skills but geting the ergonomics right is a little harder

Criticle dimensions are

Seat height to gun rail
Seat distance from gun rail
Seat height and distance from foot rest


Seats without a foot rest are uncomfortable for long sits. Seats with the wrong ergonomics for the gun rail are just a pain


I am a building surveyour and ex engeneer so not too bad at the design side but my first attempt made some of the above errors. Second attempt was much better


I put the design up on the web site

http://www.dagse.co.uk/resources/free-standing-high-seat-design/

The gun rail is purposfulley a little on the low side. But you can simply add lengths of 4X2 or 4X4 to raise it up to the corect height for you

Lowering it would have been MUCH harder


As for getting it in a car? Dont bother get a trailer


NOW if you mean a portable one thats colapsable and fits in a car? Then buy a telescopic high seat and a simila height telescopic ladder


Then use the telescopic seat as the seat an use the ladder to create an A frame at the back. Then all you need is guy roaps to make it stable

 

[Chasey]

Seriously fag packet design for the above. Joint to seat is the issue but If I could see the design of the seat I am sure I could come up with a suitable system

Obviously this design is totaly relient on the guy ropes and some big hammer in stakes and ratchet tension guy roaps would be my preferance.

 

[mchughcb]

Nice one Chasey. I've almost finished my new design. If I like it I'll post it here in the boot then assembled. User requirements are different to your design.

 

[8x57]

"How Many SD Members Have Built Their Own Freestanding Wooden Highseats?"

Just disassembled one that I built in the garage to take it up to the shoot. Made from old 3"x2" stud partitioning that the neighbour was throwing in the skip following renovations on their house. I simply couldn't bear to see good timber going to waste. Just like Mungo mine is probably vastly over engineered.
It's a double seat based on a picture of one posted on the site a few weeks ago.

 

[Thetownie]

I made a few over the years.

All need the tlc now in one way. View attachment 78904View attachment 78905

 

[Southern]

I have built a few for young hunters, but found that I could buy a knock down one in a box for about the same money. If I am going to leave one on a property, I just have it all welded together as one piece, in steel, 12 feet at least, stand up against a tree, with seating for two - too large to easily steal, too.

 

[Dickie]

shooting bech that will go in the car 3 legs from steel used for railings, 3 wall mounts for connecting the legs to the bench, 3 wedges to angle the legs and a sheet of ply cut to whatever shape you like. just need an allen key to take the legs on and off

 

[mchughcb]

I made a few over the years.

All need the tlc now in one way. View attachment 78904View attachment 78905

Nice but they don't look free standers?

 

[mchughcb]

Will test the design and weight distribution soon.

 

[25-06 Rem]

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[mchughcb]

Thanks Airborne. Stupid question but why have an inch gap in the slats?

 

[Tim.243]

Thanks Airborne. Stupid question but why have an inch gap in the slats?

To let the curry farts out from an early start after a night on the lash........


Tim.243

 

[Akeld]

Built using a pallet for the base



The view from inside