How would you anchor an elevated stand in rocky soil?

[no1hogkiller]

I just got on a new lease near Uvalde. Going to take over a spot on a 90 horizontal degree ridge. Problem it's set up for a straight shot and can't see any thing to the far right.
How would you construct a metal base on uneven ground and secure it to the rocky ground.
16# sledge and hope to have a square base?
This will be a two people rifle stand.
Any ideas?

Pictures would be helpful.

[TP3]

Rent or borrow a big hammer drill. 1 1/2" x 18" long bit. Then you can knock the fins off a those and use it to anchor with. You can also use it to level your legs.

[sportsman]

Get some sort of BIG basket and fill it full of rocks. Of course attach it to the tower somehow to help add some weight.

[Gummi Bear]

Use scaffold frames.

You can anchor them any number of ways. I like to drive t-posts in a triad underneath and tie to each corner.

The big drillbit idea above would work great.

[dogman11]

anchor system

I have a buddy who does this on all of his tower blinds. They get tubs and set a large eye bolt/auger type anchor from tractor supply in cement in the tub. Then they run guide wires from the tub under the blind to the four corners of the tower blind. He said he got tired of tripping on guide wires in the dark, so they did this to all of their blinds. Much safer approaching it in the dark and you don't have to rent or use heavy equipment. You could add rebar and mix it with quickcrete under the blind so you wouldn't have to carry the tub. This is what I'm going to do with my tripods that are in rocky areas.

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[Samson]

You can just level your 4 legs however you want, we shimmed ours with rocks. Then form around the 4 legs and pour 8 bags of concrete in each one. That sucker will not move. No guide wires needed. We had our engineer run the numbers for us and this blind will take a 90mph straight wall wind with a safety factor of 1.5 .

[RascalArms]

You can just level your 4 legs however you want, we shimmed ours with rocks. Then form around the 4 legs and pour 8 bags of concrete in each one. That sucker will not move. No guide wires needed. We had our engineer run the numbers for us and this blind will take a 90mph straight wall wind with a safety factor of 1.5 .

Now that's cool...however I haven't been drinking tonight and hate to tell you...unless that camera is off...that blind ain't level brother!

[Samson]

The camera and ground aren't level, but that blind is as level, plumb and square as it can be. We wouldn't go through all the trouble of building that blind without sticking a level on it.

[RascalArms]

The camera and ground aren't level, but that blind is as level, plumb and square as it can be. We wouldn't go through all the trouble of building that blind without sticking a level on it.

I figured as much...just razzin you a little man.

[apc10]

Usually when I set up a new tower blind I just set the blind in brush or around it and run wires from the blind to the base of the bushes/trees. It is simple and we haven't had any issues. We have a big hammer drill and compressor we use for building fence that we have used to drill holes for anchors, but it's more of hassle to drag it back to where we need it for 4 holes.

[jt400]

^^^^^^Same

[Roscoe]

We use to get axle shafts from the junk yard. Put a cutting torch to the end of them to give them more of point/edge and then use a sledge hammer to drive them in right beside the blind leg. Barbless barbed wired to attach to legs. Did this on a couple of 12' tower blinds years ago. Rock solid!

[DirtyMullet]

I hunt in a similar setup. On a 60' cliff in menard. We hammer drilled exactly like he said, but down by the frame base. Then sledged rebar into it and bent the rebar over the base. Two on each side. Been up for 4 years and hasn't moved an inch.

[kmitchl]

Cut a cedar tree. Set several eye bolts in the stump and tie down to the stump.

[LWD]

My uncle anchored a blind to a boulder. There was a large boulder where he wanted to put a blind, so he just built the blind over the boulder and then wired the blind to the boulder. The boulder was about 3' wide, 2.5' deep. and 2' high. It wasn't going anywhere. And neither was the blind after it was wired to the boulder. This also meant that there weren't wires running out from the blind to surrounding trees for guests to decapitate themselves on.

If there's no boulder handy, try a cross-drive rock anchor. They're relatively easy to install and should hold pretty good.

http://mobilehomedepotmi.com/mh_catalog1/anchors.html

http://www.mobilehomepartmedics.com/CROSS-DRIVE-ROCK-ANCHOR-ROD_p_67.html

LWD