Home made high seat

[BlackWolf Craig]

So, I have a nice 35 acre site with a decent population of fallow that occupy and pass through it, there are houses to the back and a train track to the side of the woodland so my FEO was a lot happier with me putting a high seat in, as I’m hoping to use this land for man years I thought I’d have a go at making a 2 man high seat rather than just buying one. £80 later in timber, a box of screws from Screwfix and various other odds and sods I had kicking around (tarps, camo net, wood stain) and we put this together, it’s probably a bit over engineered in all honesty, but as my Grandad once told me, “any idiot can be wet, cold and uncomfortable, and they don’t give out medals for it”
Really enjoyed making this, also put in a few squirrel feeders in a 35 yd vicinity for a bit of winter squirrel control too.
What do you think for a first effort?

 

[Tim.243]

So, I have a nice 35 acre site with a decent population of fallow that occupy and pass through it, there are houses to the back and a train track to the side of the woodland so my FEO was a lot happier with me putting a high seat in, as I’m hoping to use this land for man years I thought I’d have a go at making a 2 man high seat rather than just buying one. £80 later in timber, a box of screws from Screwfix and various other odds and sods I had kicking around (tarps, camo net, wood stain) and we put this together, it’s probably a bit over engineered in all honesty, but as my Grandad once told me, “any idiot can be wet, cold and uncomfortable, and they don’t give out medals for it”
Really enjoyed making this, also put in a few squirrel feeders in a 35 yd vicinity for a bit of winter squirrel control too.
What do you think for a first effort?

Good stuff, make it so it doesn't break is key!
Not a fan of a vertical climb tbh as coming down is where it can go wrong as stairs ladders free standing high seat have a pitch, but good effort

 

[BlackWolf Craig]

Good stuff, make it so it doesn't break is key!
Not a fan of a vertical climb tbh as coming down is where it can go wrong as stairs ladders free standing high seat have a pitch, but good effort

Thanks mate

 

[Bo Diddley]

If you have just screwed the ladder rungs to the uprights with Screwfix screws, be careful, some of the screws will shear off, they are very hard and brittle, the swelling of the timber just pops some apart, tell me how I know.... I notched my rungs into the uprights as well. It might be an idea to staple some straining wire along the top or bottom edge of the rung and up the sides. Or buy some stout galvanised round wire hails and double up with those. Nothing worse than turning up and a rung is hanging by a screw...

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Good but I hope the legs are not in direct contact to the earth as that rots very fast. Have them in plastic buckets filled with cement then bitumen the whole top of the cement to get it draining off. Bury the buckets half deep into the ground.

 

[Tim.243]

Thanks mate

As I see it, kick a bit of ply under the legs with a layer of plastic (like damp proof in brick work) The legs will rot so just bolt a 2ft length on the out side as it rots

 

[purdey24]

Pretty good effort.
The way I do the rungs is to use 3"x2" in the upright plane and recess them into an additional vertical bolted to the main uprights and then double screwed.
A picture is worth quite a lot of words.