Home made Lock on stand

[big papa]

Has anybody ever made their on lock on stand / hang on stand? If so can you tell me or show me what did?

[Skinny]

Yes. It weighed a ton. Turned it into a ladder stand.

[SLICK_N_STICKY]

Kinda hard to make your own and make light weight. Been there.

[SwineAssassiN]

If your good with aluminum it's no biggie

[Stick'n'String]

Yes. It weighed a ton. Turned it into a ladder stand.

My dad used to make some like this. They would be too heavy to use as a lock on so they were ladder stands. They were real heavy and a real pain to put up.

If your good with aluminum it's no biggie

Agreed. My dad just recently taught himself to weld aluminum and now he still makes a ladder stand, but now a 2 person ladder stand is much lighter and easier to put up than his previous 1 man ladder stands.

[Bayouboy]

My nephew just had the cables on a Gorilla lock on break and the stand collapsed on him. Luckily he had his safety harness on. The stand was several years old and I feel certain the cables had not been inspected. Who does that? I haven't been.
Making a safe lock on is not as easy as some think. Be safe and pick one up on sale after season.

[BTLowry]

I have one in the barn that an old man made me. Built out of 1/2" square tubing and expanded metal.

Definitely not safe to be in 20' up a tree.

My suggestion is to buy you a stand. You will spend more money on materials than you can buy a stand for.

[Hoggslayer]

I made one 20+ years ago. It is 2 pieces, the part that clamps on the tree and the stand. It takes three people to hand it.

[Wudstix]

I have two, it takes a bunch to hang, and a ATV to drag it into the woods. Solid as a rock once in place though. Don't use it much cause the place I hunt does not allow penetration of tree bark.

[big papa]

Ok. Thanks for the input but still would like info on how someone did theirs.

[BTLowry]

We used a jig to bend the base into shape, tacked it together with some braces. Tacked up a "spine" and welded some chain links to each side for ratchet strap attachment.
Drilled a hole through the platform frame and "spine" and put a bolt through so it would fold flat. Bent another loop for the seat. Drilled and bolted it to spine down low so it was similar to a dove stool. Welded all of the frame and spine and tacked a piece of expanded metal on base.
Made a seat out of heavy camo material
Painted it all and put seat on

Going to get out and clean the barn out this weekend and i I think of it I will take some pics

[mchildress]

We had an old boilermaker on a lease were on. He built one with a 4'x'4 platform. Perimeter was 3/4" round bar with 3/4" expanded metal bottom. Came up with pipe and flat metal for a swivel seat he had made, cut a plastic washer from a bleach jug about 4" round for a washer to keep the swivel seat quite. Had 3/8" chain holding it to the tree and two 3/4" bolts ground to a point and about 8" T-handles to turn them into the tree to tighten her up. It took 4 of us in the back of a truck to hold it up against the tree while he tightened every thing up to hold it. I would guess close to 200lbs. When he got it secure we joked about it being able to hold a truck. Over the years it got better as the oak tree grew into it. This was in 1975 and we had never seen anything like it. The owner had to sale the place and we had to move on 10 yrs ago but I have no dought that stand is still there.

[BigThicketBoy]

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I have two, it takes a bunch to hang, and a ATV to drag it into the woods. Solid as a rock once in place though. Don't use it much cause the place I hunt does not allow penetration of tree bark.

Dang... Can't even penetrate tree bark? How do you ever clear a shooting lane?

[sqiggy]

Ok. Thanks for the input but still would like info on how someone did theirs.

I just tried to copy the one I bought from Cabela's. I didn't have a tube bender so I just used my torch to make the bends. That doesn't work very well on 3/4" sq tubing, but still made it work. Didn't use cable. Welded on some small chain instead. Used bigger chain to go around the tree. I used it for a couple of seasons till I bought a aluminum lock on that was on sale. That's all I use now. So much easier hanging a 12 lb stand than a 20+ lb stand!!