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What would the cost of that be compared to building it out of some kind of metal, either pipe or square tubing? Wood has gone crazy, but so has metal. I ask because metal will last so much longer, can be brought out to location, pulled up after attaching stand in a few minutes. This platform was built in 1982, been moved at least 6 times, 3 boxes on it. Metal seems like a better investment if you’re a young hunter. It will last a lifetime and probably more. It took me 3 or 4 afternoons to build the platform by myself.

That stand was setting where I took the picture, I let it down on trailer, moved it, pulled it it up by myself after I’d cleared juniper out. I was 58 or 59 then, don’t know if I could do it now. It let me be able to see way the hell down the hill, made it a lot more fun to hunt. The area behind green feeder was already clear, deer cross there bigtime. I cleared out to bottom of hill, feeder hanging in oak tree, killed lots of pigs down there.

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Dead pig walking at bottom of hill. I caught him in pen around the green feeder the day before, but he jumped over the fence. That fence is 3 feet I think, hog panels.