Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
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11/27/22 09:31 AM
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: K9BeavCoon]
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11/27/22 09:53 AM
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Have you tried the screw in earth anchors from fleet farm, Menards? Otherwise, go talk to your local rural electric linemen and see if you can get some old anchors. If you had an excavator of sorts you could bury them in. X2. After losing a few to the same storms this summer, we've gone to screw in type anchors and cable. But if ma nature can take out concrete buildings, even this may not be enough.
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 10:29 AM
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I guess I am lucky and have never lost one to wind although mine aren't 20 feet in the air either. I normally just sink the legs in 24-30 inches and pout a half bag of sack-crete in around each leg.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 10:39 AM
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I had limited experience doing it so I am no expert But I fastened each post to a concrete slab I used the type of slab that is used to build a concrete farm type silo .They are about 10 inches wide and about 24 inches long Be sure it is leveled up And then I used some heavy duty cable stakes attached to chain at various places .By criss crossing them it can be held tightly And if it does not rock it is more quiet and stays solid
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Leftlane]
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11/27/22 10:41 AM
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Guy wires outside of the base perimeter are a pain but they work Look at a radio tower. A lot of the older grain leg set ups around here, the farmers have I beams pounds in the ground at 45* then cabled off. Get something with some surface area that you can deep.
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 10:44 AM
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Yup, I study failures in the wind for a living so I have gotten a little tuned into what works and what doesn't
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 10:51 AM
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Check out the anchoring systems used for mobile homes.
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 11:05 AM
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Build them shorter. Can't imagine having the 20' tall.
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: bucksnbears]
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11/27/22 11:07 AM
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Build them shorter. Can't imagine having the 20' tall. Agree- we hunt a lot of tag alder and at 12' you have zero visibility
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 11:20 AM
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the screw in anchors the power company uses when trying off power poles they are about 5 foot
but hey have to be out on guy wires at 45s off each corner if your trying to hold a 20 foot lever with a sail at the top of it you would need crazy strength
the other thing is lots of weight at the base might help
I was looking at one that where it would be would it is rock all around under a few inches of top soil I was going to build a shelf at the bottom and pile rocks in it
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Re: Anchoring Tower Deer Stands
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/27/22 11:25 AM
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Down here high wind is a tornado or hurricane for the most part. Some straight line winds but those come with tornado season. Pretty much nothing short of a concrete footing and hurricane straps stands a chance under those conditions.
Last edited by warrior; 11/27/22 11:25 AM.
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