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Any simple ideas for elevating a trailer mounted blind, trailer and all?

I keep wracking my brain for a safe solution. 4-5' would be sufficient.

Any input would be appreciated.

You would need to build a frame to bolt on trailer, weld mounts on trailer to bolt frame to. Then lay trailer back, bolt frame to trailer, pull trailer frame and stand up. That’s my best idea. I think I would take stand off trailer, build a frame out of metal to bolt to it. Carry it out there in trailer, then stand up.

You would have trailer free for other things.

There is no stand. The trailer is the stand. The blind is bolted to the trailer bed. Thought about cinder blocks.

I guess you could Jack it up 8 inches at a time

Why can’t you unbolt it put it on a frame. This is 5’ high, built out of scrap crap I had laying around. I fits that ugly ass brown stand.

I made one years ago that folded down flat on a trailer that had a boat winch that would stand it up. had a cable that came tight on the other side of the winch . I think it was 12 ft to the bottom of the stand with the seat and sides on it it would lay down on a 16ft trailer

That would be cool. I was on a lease where you had to take stands down after rifle season, put them up a month before rifle season

hanco the man I built it for did the designed it, 1 1/2 x 1/8 box tube one bolt in each corner to lay flat . been 30 + = years ago hard to remember all the details he added a power winch the next year

A winch be nice

Like this?

Or maybe this?

That is cool

Build a 4x4 frame lift it with a tractor with forks and sit it on the frame.

The blind has been on a 5’ platform for several years. Setup/takedown is quite labor intensive. It went on the trailer last summer as I will never go thru that again. I do not mind using minimal effort to jack it up. But, absolutely no more of the break-down process. Thought the blind is in four separate panels, they are still a two man lift. The trailer makes it all SO easy.

I had the Keene idea decades ago but have always lacked the tools to do it with. As many of us are, I can weld & fabricate with the best of ‘em except I am not going to invest in the tooling. And, I don’t have a shop space to do that type of work. I do most everything by myself so I need to make everything as easy on me as I can.

Unfortunately, the most perfect blind placement of my current hunting spot could benefit from a few extra feet.

That was my first thought. If I do, it needs to be stable. I will never sacrifice safety for convenience.

I have seen blinds on trailers with lifting jacks on each corner to crank the blind into the air. I somehow think it would gain maximum stability if the entire trailer went up as a whole.

Hanco, you need to build stands and sell them. Something you can bolt together. You do good work

Jacking more weight up high is not the way to get more stability.

I have seen Blinds on Scissor lifts that get up about 20' never been in one. Rio7

I agree. I believe my thinking is a bit lofty, flawed.