Making a mobile shooting box

[Bavarianbrit]

It will be a permanent fixture in the shoot so it needs to fit in with the German sensibilities about tidiness otherwise the landowners ( around 30 for 380 Hectares ) will get ****y. The sit out all night function for wild boar needs to work for me = big enough to swing the seat around and stretch my legs now and again. so seldom will I have to move it more than half a kilometre and the top heavy stability should be OK.
German law requires all towed trailers to have a TUV (MOT) and be registered and taxed with number plates to prove it so this one is only for use on private lands and never for on the roads.

 

[rodp]

It is something that has been on my mind to build something like this for a while. However I am in the time poor department myself. I did see on YouTube someone who made one that winched up to a height. Go weven this seems like a nice simple idea and would work well. I have a few spots I could use it as well. Maybe next year. Will be interested to see how you get on.
My biggest worry is making it strong enough to be able to tow it so I was more thinking of making it like a curtainsider so you could roll the sides up to let the wind through when towing. Less drag.

Just building one of those as we speak. Had a hide up a tree, but as usual it was in the wrong place so took it down to mount on a trailer chassis. Knocked a chassis up out of some old 40x40 box and scrap suspension units we had (just cut the stub axles off the units and welded them to box section as we don't need suspension). I'll take it to the woods and mount the old hide on it. Hide is box section and ply floor with very lightweight steel tube frame and PVC cover on it. Windows roll up or velcro down when not in use. It will take 2 minutes to fold flat on trailer if need be to move it.
Total cost about zero.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Makes for a very satisfying result to be proud of when you use it.
Mine goes out in the field today, my mate took a 35kg male boar last night at 9.30 in the area so they are deffo out and about.

 

[Monkey Spanker]

You can hire or buy ones similar to that. Just needs a shoot slot cutting. Already has a seat and handy if your morning stalk coincides with other morning business:
https://www.hiremasterwanganui.co.nz/product/single-portaloo/
MS

 

[delta wolf]

You can hire or buy ones similar to that. Just needs a shoot slot cutting. Already has a seat and handy if your morning stalk coincides with other morning business:
https://www.hiremasterwanganui.co.nz/product/single-portaloo/
MS

Love it!! I'm often caught short due to the early starts!

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Took it out into the woods today.
"Oops a daisy" the balance was a bit off and it was almost tipping over backwards away from the towing ball.
The complete box is it turns out - located too far backwards along the chassis rails but, with some heavy stones on the front of the A frame we got it into the summers shooting position at with the tractor at 2mph and it now sits solid enough on a slight rise under some trees, but I will have to rethink how to slide the box forward along the rails to adjust the balance in the late Autumn.
I think it is a lessons learnt for all of us to know such facts and even though me being a design engineer I still got it wrong. It seemed OK balanced when it was just standing in front of my garage on the four legs.

 

[mchughcb]

Im assuming a dual axle would have been better for towing but a lot more expensive?

 

[Bavarianbrit]

It was a freeby from the recycle centre so I started off on the wrong foot.
My car design background is a different world as they usually will have a wheel at each corner.

 

[Tim.243]

It was a freeby from the recycle centre so I started off on the wrong foot.
My car design background is a different world as they usually will have a wheel at each corner.

Best bit of advice I got from some long time engineers " If it looks right then it usually is "

sure you will re hash the design to work....

A classic design pho par was the weld on door hinge on cars lol

The Japs got over it with bolt on hinges!

As toolmaker retrained into panel beating I couldn’t work out why you had to beat a roll pin out of a hinge, re skin and paint a door then beat the roll pin back in with marking the paint!

Russians used a pencil in space the US spent a $1000000 on a pen lol

Tim.243

 

[reloader54]

It should be easy enough to relocate the axle, as soon as I saw the original trailer It was obvious the nose weight would be pretty much nonexistent.

sure looks comfy inside though.

 

[NoIDeer]

Why don't you leave as is and clamp a weight on the draw bar. Much easier and adjustable when you make changes.

 

[Tim.243]

Why don't you leave as is and clamp a weight on the draw bar. Much easier and adjustable when you make changes.

A couple of car manafactures had to bolt weights to gear boxes because the got it wrong....

Better to put it right....

Tim.243

 

[reloader54]

Why don't you leave as is and clamp a weight on the draw bar. Much easier and adjustable when you make changes.

that might work too,,, 10kva diesel generator ought to do it weight wise, I'm thinking coffee machine in the corner, perhaps an aircon/heater system, microwave/grill, with enough provisions you could stay for a week or two, I would.