Better Late Then Never

[Mr. Ray III]

Built one of these today.  Way too many people and everyone had their own way to do it.     Wound up with an out of square half-a$$ excuse for a pit.  Glad the pit wasn't for me..... I just got to dig and push dirt.   

[Mr. Ray III]

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[Mr. Ray III]

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[ChrisS]

Ray,
Looks very nice, but why did you use plywood?

Thats not gonna last very long.

[Mr. Ray III]

Ray,
Looks very nice, but why did you use plywood?

Thats not gonna last very long.

Not my pit, not my material.  It is pressure treated though.  i told them to wrap it in tar paper or paint tar or do something to it.

I had nothing to do with the building process either.  Once I back filled the hole, a wall had a big bow in it.  I tend to over kill/build stuff, but I would rather it be over kill then caved in when it rains.

[ChrisS]

I understand.....that thing aint gonna last a year.

Pressure treated plywood is junk and any kind of plywood in the ground is worthless, especially on the floor.

[Mr. Ray III]

I tried to talk them into treated 2x8's........

[shedking]

Never enough time or money to do it right but always enough to do it over 

[madcrabber1113]

I understand.....that thing aint gonna last a year.

Pressure treated plywood is junk and any kind of plywood in the ground is worthless, especially on the floor.

                     

[madcrabber1113]

I tried to talk them into treated 2x8's........

       Let me guess....too expensive   

[madcrabber1113]

If you plan on pltwood you should try Advantech. 

[Mr. Ray III]

If you plan on pltwood you should try Advantech. 

There is advantech on the floor but it'll rot too.  It really just needs to be concrete.

[Seaweed]

I hope nobody's in it when those walls come in 

[Mr. Ray III]

One wall is already bowed but no one seemed to want to do anything about it.  I said wait til it rains....

[mdjohn]

that dirt looks pretty dry

what til it gets wet and heavy and slippery - I tell people, dirt moves just like water, just slower

ya know if that tractor wheel comes close to the sides, it will push that earth down and out and the walls in

It'll work for a while

[Mr. Ray III]

that dirt looks pretty dry

what til it gets wet and heavy and slippery - I tell people, dirt moves just like water, just slower

ya know if that tractor wheel comes close to the sides, it will push that earth down and out and the walls in

It'll work for a while

Yeah, I kept the skid out away from it a ways.

[Seaweed]

lateral earth pressure is as old as dirt...  and when the water builds up on the outside...  get out of the way.

[mdjohn]

ya no

you could buy a bradley metal blind/pit

or you can go out and buy/borrow or steal a metal dumpster - the open kind roll out kind or the kind with a lid

and get that welder and acetylene torch out

ther ya go

I like the 20 or 30 yard model (30 is deeper)- holds 6/7 hunters and with a pitched roof to keep the rain out. Put in a bench or bring a lawn chair
 

[mdjohn]

there ya go

[capt. ron]

If I dug a hole that deep down here ya be standing knee deep in water.

Ronnie

[mdjohn]

If I dug a hole that deep down here ya be standing knee deep in water.

Ronnie

that's how they make a pond on eastern shore

Dig a hole and wait

 

[capt. ron]

Some of the guys down here use plastic 55 gallon drums.  Only fit one man but works very well.

In fact I've seen them used as deer blinds as well.

Ronnie

[KI Crabber]

Some of the guys down here use plastic 55 gallon drums.  Only fit one man but works very well.

In fact I've seen them used as deer blinds as well.

Ronnie

I've seen that done many years ago. May work for smaller guys....like I used to be.....

[capt. ron]

The first time I saw one I couldn't figure what a drum was doing in the middle of the woods.  Had to investigate.  Found a small chair inside.  Then it dawned on me that it was a blind.

Ronnie

[boater2579]

All that work and so few geese this year, so far!!!