I'm awful late to the party, but it should have made a great blind for a few years without much work. The deer shouldn't notice as it gets rundown until it doesn't conceal you well. I wonder if vertical slits with netting over them might not work better for gun hunters. I might try a blind like yours if I ever build another.
Good job on the blind, you gave me some ideas. Yanno ..... ..... I get the hay bale blind with the erosion control netting looking " natural" and all, but up here in the great white north of NW PA many of the farmers have moved to covering their round bales in sealed white plastic or covering them with a plain brown tarp. I'm thinking that "look" would work too ! ... and be simpler too !
Put a gaz heater in there(i sell them,they are very safe) a small table and chairs for lunch time,build some small flat boards under the'windows'to keep your guns in the safe direction!!!I would even sleep in there,a good square of thick carpet and sleeping bags.......Great build.....great idea.Greetings from France.
1 of my hunting friends friend, he built a hay blind like that for us. We hunt in southern Michigan. I hunted out of it 1 time last year.Only thing do not like about ours, cannot stand up & hunt, & looking out of windows at the same time ,& same problem with windows as you have. Like your idea with the boards so the heavy snow does not crush the blind. Think it will be a good idea to do that with ours. Than afraid to use a heater in it. October hunts will be ok, but November hunts or December hunts for sure is cold in there. It looks cool, but I like my 6 sided hex blind much better. Have 3 of them now,& with heater inside of them, its as warm as a house.
How has the blind held up? Is the netting still in tact?I used chicken wire on mine it looks great and its holding up great in the 35+ winds here in Kansas and some rain. I stuffed alfalfa hay between the tarp and the chicken wire, when I get time to make a video and pictures I'll get some on here
I haven't checked it out since we put it in. It's in the middle of our food plots and I don't want to go stomping around it. From a distance it looks fine and the deer are paying zero attention to it. This last Saturday I saw 7 walk with in 20 yards of it including a 130 in buck.
+85krink I see I have sat a hand full of times now and have seen some good deer and most have been within 20 yards and some within 10. I have the blind 10 yards off of the food plot and the deer have been walking the near edge of the plot I didn't cover the ends of the bale because I put two round bales up against it on either side
Awesome job, I haven't made a deer blind in a lot of years but now that I'm getting older I'm thinking about it so I can take the grandkid. I've always preferred tree stand because you can see so much better. I've been thinking about a ground blind made of pvc frame to lighten the load but yours looks really good. My question is the netting . Did it come with the hay or do you have to somehow add that? I thought maybe a person could spray glue to the tarp and then add straw. Give me your thoughts thanks.
+Tony Shelton I thought about the PVC but I was concerned with the extremely cold temps we experience in Illinois. I didn't want the frame getting brittle in the cold temps. I don't know if that is sound or not but that is why I went with a wooden internal frame. I also thought about metal conduit, but I didn't have a way to consistently bend it. As far as the netting, it comes that way from Home Depot. Here is a link. www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-8-ft-x-112-5-ft-Polypropylene-Single-Net-Straw-Erosion-Control-Blanket-17681-1-1125/204268230 I chose this way because I can carry a roll of the netting out to my blind and do field repairs with out moving my blind. I wanted to set the blind and not have to move it. As far as gluing, I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I would test it first. The elements are very harsh on things. Good luck!
+85krink Thanks for the post. I may go ahead and build one like yours. I have a 198 acre that a friend owns. it would be great to put out but Im thinking of leaving it on a trailer. Thanks for the info. have a great year hunting.
junior1165 The cattle panels are 16 feet long and about 5 feet tall. I ended up using 2 full sized panels for the rounded shape, and about half of another for the windows.
Great job! This is awesome! I have been thinking about building one of these for a while but keep procrastinating. Maybe I missed it in the video, but how did you fasten the plastic and the straw netting to the wire panels?
+Frankie G To secure the plastic tarp to the wire netting I used zip ties around the boarder and a few in the middle, but not to many to unsure its waterproofing water resistance. I also used Gorilla duct tape (the best duct tape in my opinion) to tape all the ends together. The straw netting is "stitched" together with zip ties. The netting fits over the whole structure similar to a slip cover, but do the round shape it wont slip off. There are 4 layers around the middle and 2 layers on the ends with additional stuffing added. The netting has a "Velcro" effect when it is layered on top of itself. Hope this answers your question!
From the floor to the bottom of the windows is 32 in. The windows themselves are 16 in high x 32 in long. I never measured for the windows though. I sat inside the finished skeleton and decided where to place the windows and how big they should be. This is one of those feel type things rather than exact measured.
How did you attach that erosion netting over the tarp? I've got one built all the way to the tarp stage and I'm contemplating how best to attach the netting vs. real net-wrapped hay.
I draped the sections over it and on the sides. At the joint at the side and the top I used zip ties to attach the section together. If you can imagine a slip cover for a couch but the slip cover is the netting and the couch is the blind. Once you get one layer on the others go a lot easier. One thing I found that really helps is putting burlap over the tarp. It removes some of the slipperyness of the tarp and add some friction to the netting allowing the first layer to stick better. I redid my blind last year and I have 8 layers on the round side and 6 on the sides with the burlap in between the netting and tarp. The blind has been sitting outside since and still looks damn good. Im guessing that I get 3 years out of that round of netting.
D J I never have all the windows open at once nor do I ever have them open more than a crack. I will say that I would change the shape and size of the windows if I were to do it again. I had ideas of bowhunting out of this blind but it has never and will most likely never happen. Thanks for watching!
+Josh Novotny It was erosion control netting. I found it at Home Depot. Other places had a minium order number, The Depot did not. Here is a link to what I bought. www.homedepot.com/p/8-ft-x-112-5-ft-Polypropylene-Single-Net-Straw-Erosion-Control-Blanket-17681-1-1125/204268230
Tyler Peters I already had the cattle fence but I just looked and it’s about 20 bucks. I really didn’t bend it I just secured it on one side and then the other side. It took on that shape by itself. I used a few ratchet straps to hold it while I secured it to the deck
That looks great. how long did it take you to make it? Ive been wanting to make one for quite awhile and this is what I had in mind. I don't see spending $800 on a blind, either does my wife. how has the blind held up?
+tmtdaddy It took about 4 weekends. I could have built it quicker but I took my time. I also designed and purchased parts as I worked on the project. If you had all the parts already I think you could build one in 2 full days of working.
+tmtdaddy Also we has a pretty good rain storm with 40+mph winds and it held up perfectly fine. I left a window open on accident and there was zero damage.
+85krink That's awesome sorry it has taken me so long I have been building one myself but its not as big im just having trouble with the outside. ( what tarp or plastic should I go with things like that). I will try to post a video when im dont
I used medium duty tarp. I bought 2 @5.99. I used fence nails to secure the primeter. I did one side and I stretched the other side then nailed it. My tarp was as long at my cattle fence. I used some where around 20-25 fence nails for each side.
For the biggest portion I used a 16x10 and the sides I used a single 8x6. If you plan your cuts those sizes should do the whole thing including the door. I would spring for a better tarp because mine took some beating this winter. I have to replace a good portion of the door side is tore up. The blind did its job though 5 deer were killed out of it.
+85krink . thanks for the heads up on the tarp. I planned on using thicker semi tarps to try to break the wind. also how did the erosion blankets hold up? My last question would be how did you connect the blankets to the tarp, and the tarp to the cattle panel?
The erosion netting got tore up pretty bad. I am currently researching for a new or different material to use. If I can't find anything I will use the netting again. It wasn't very expensive. I used fence nail to connect the tarp to the base and stretched it over and did the same on the other side. (That was for the main portion). For the sides I folded and duct taped and zip tied it to the main structure. One thing I would change right now is to add circular pvc to the sides to help eliminate sharp edges to reduce the tearing of the tarp. The erosion blankets were laid out on the structure and zip tied together to almost form a "slip cover". The netting was not attached to the structure, except the door.
I'm awful late to the party, but it should have made a great blind for a few years without much work. The deer shouldn't notice as it gets rundown until it doesn't conceal you well. I wonder if vertical slits with netting over them might not work better for gun hunters. I might try a blind like yours if I ever build another.
Good job on the blind, you gave me some ideas.
Yanno .....
..... I get the hay bale blind with the erosion control netting looking " natural" and all, but up here in the great white north of NW PA many of the farmers have moved to covering their round bales in sealed white plastic or covering them with a plain brown tarp.
I'm thinking that "look" would work too !
... and be simpler too !
Put a gaz heater in there(i sell them,they are very safe) a small table and chairs for lunch time,build some small flat boards under the'windows'to keep your guns in the safe direction!!!I would even sleep in there,a good square of thick carpet and sleeping bags.......Great build.....great idea.Greetings from France.
1 of my hunting friends friend, he built a hay blind like that for us. We hunt in southern Michigan. I hunted out of it 1 time last year.Only thing do not like about ours, cannot stand up & hunt, & looking out of windows at the same time ,& same problem with windows as you have. Like your idea with the boards so the heavy snow does not crush the blind. Think it will be a good idea to do that with ours. Than afraid to use a heater in it. October hunts will be ok, but November hunts or December hunts for sure is cold in there. It looks cool, but I like my 6 sided hex blind much better. Have 3 of them now,& with heater inside of them, its as warm as a house.
for the tarp deterioration try a canvas tarp that's what I plan on using on mine
Looks amazing! Great Job!
How has the blind held up? Is the netting still in tact?I used chicken wire on mine it looks great and its holding up great in the 35+ winds here in Kansas and some rain. I stuffed alfalfa hay between the tarp and the chicken wire, when I get time to make a video and pictures I'll get some on here
I haven't checked it out since we put it in. It's in the middle of our food plots and I don't want to go stomping around it. From a distance it looks fine and the deer are paying zero attention to it. This last Saturday I saw 7 walk with in 20 yards of it including a 130 in buck.
+85krink I see I have sat a hand full of times now and have seen some good deer and most have been within 20 yards and some within 10. I have the blind 10 yards off of the food plot and the deer have been walking the near edge of the plot I didn't cover the ends of the bale because I put two round bales up against it on either side
Awesome job, I haven't made a deer blind in a lot of years but now that I'm getting older I'm thinking about it so I can take the grandkid. I've always preferred tree stand because you can see so much better. I've been thinking about a ground blind made of pvc frame to lighten the load but yours looks really good. My question is the netting . Did it come with the hay or do you have to somehow add that? I thought maybe a person could spray glue to the tarp and then add straw. Give me your thoughts thanks.
+Tony Shelton I thought about the PVC but I was concerned with the extremely cold temps we experience in Illinois. I didn't want the frame getting brittle in the cold temps. I don't know if that is sound or not but that is why I went with a wooden internal frame. I also thought about metal conduit, but I didn't have a way to consistently bend it. As far as the netting, it comes that way from Home Depot. Here is a link.
www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-8-ft-x-112-5-ft-Polypropylene-Single-Net-Straw-Erosion-Control-Blanket-17681-1-1125/204268230
I chose this way because I can carry a roll of the netting out to my blind and do field repairs with out moving my blind. I wanted to set the blind and not have to move it. As far as gluing, I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I would test it first. The elements are very harsh on things. Good luck!
+85krink Thanks for the post. I may go ahead and build one like yours. I have a 198 acre that a friend owns. it would be great to put out but Im thinking of leaving it on a trailer. Thanks for the info. have a great year hunting.
How did you make and attach the windows to the blind? And do you know about how much it cost to build? Thanks
very helpful video! best i could find!
Thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
How did you attach the windows? To make them go up and down?
I just used rings at the base to allow them to pivot.
HOw big are the cattle panels, and how many did you use?
junior1165 The cattle panels are 16 feet long and about 5 feet tall. I ended up using 2 full sized panels for the rounded shape, and about half of another for the windows.
thanks and what size eye bolt did you use and yeah cards
Great job! This is awesome! I have been thinking about building one of these for a while but keep procrastinating. Maybe I missed it in the video, but how did you fasten the plastic and the straw netting to the wire panels?
+Frankie G To secure the plastic tarp to the wire netting I used zip ties around the boarder and a few in the middle, but not to many to unsure its waterproofing water resistance. I also used Gorilla duct tape (the best duct tape in my opinion) to tape all the ends together. The straw netting is "stitched" together with zip ties. The netting fits over the whole structure similar to a slip cover, but do the round shape it wont slip off. There are 4 layers around the middle and 2 layers on the ends with additional stuffing added. The netting has a "Velcro" effect when it is layered on top of itself.
Hope this answers your question!
Thanks for the info!
Would you be interested in building another 1
How big are the shooting windows and how high did you go off the floor? Looks good!
From the floor to the bottom of the windows is 32 in. The windows themselves are 16 in high x 32 in long. I never measured for the windows though. I sat inside the finished skeleton and decided where to place the windows and how big they should be. This is one of those feel type things rather than exact measured.
this is the most helpful video I could find but I just have one question for you. how long did it take to build it? just a ballpark please
It could be done in a weekend if you had all the materials on hand. it took me 3+ weeks due to not having certain materials on hand. Go Cards!
+85krink thank sand what size eye bolt did you use and yeah cards
+Brock Loschen To be honest, I don't remembwr
+85krink ok thanks anyways
Very Nice Job on this Hay Bale. How did it work out for you? Did your Wife and Daughter go as well?
How did you attach that erosion netting over the tarp? I've got one built all the way to the tarp stage and I'm contemplating how best to attach the netting vs. real net-wrapped hay.
I draped the sections over it and on the sides. At the joint at the side and the top I used zip ties to attach the section together. If you can imagine a slip cover for a couch but the slip cover is the netting and the couch is the blind. Once you get one layer on the others go a lot easier. One thing I found that really helps is putting burlap over the tarp. It removes some of the slipperyness of the tarp and add some friction to the netting allowing the first layer to stick better. I redid my blind last year and I have 8 layers on the round side and 6 on the sides with the burlap in between the netting and tarp. The blind has been sitting outside since and still looks damn good. Im guessing that I get 3 years out of that round of netting.
Not sure why ppl cut windows all over the blind. You can only shoot out one side at a time, if positioned properly you only need two windows.
D J I never have all the windows open at once nor do I ever have them open more than a crack. I will say that I would change the shape and size of the windows if I were to do it again. I had ideas of bowhunting out of this blind but it has never and will most likely never happen. Thanks for watching!
@@85krink im making a bale blind with grass over the windows
@@85krink maybe make the windows wedge shape
Whatd you use for the hay mesh?
+Josh Novotny It was erosion control netting. I found it at Home Depot. Other places had a minium order number, The Depot did not. Here is a link to what I bought.
www.homedepot.com/p/8-ft-x-112-5-ft-Polypropylene-Single-Net-Straw-Erosion-Control-Blanket-17681-1-1125/204268230
How easy did the panel bend and how expensive was the paneling?
Tyler Peters I already had the cattle fence but I just looked and it’s about 20 bucks. I really didn’t bend it I just secured it on one side and then the other side. It took on that shape by itself. I used a few ratchet straps to hold it while I secured it to the deck
85krink ok thanks!
That looks great. how long did it take you to make it? Ive been wanting to make one for quite awhile and this is what I had in mind. I don't see spending $800 on a blind, either does my wife. how has the blind held up?
+tmtdaddy It took about 4 weekends. I could have built it quicker but I took my time. I also designed and purchased parts as I worked on the project. If you had all the parts already I think you could build one in 2 full days of working.
+tmtdaddy Also we has a pretty good rain storm with 40+mph winds and it held up perfectly fine. I left a window open on accident and there was zero damage.
+85krink That's awesome sorry it has taken me so long I have been building one myself but its not as big im just having trouble with the outside. ( what tarp or plastic should I go with things like that). I will try to post a video when im dont
I used medium duty tarp. I bought 2 @5.99. I used fence nails to secure the primeter. I did one side and I stretched the other side then nailed it. My tarp was as long at my cattle fence. I used some where around 20-25 fence nails for each side.
+85krink ok sweet that is how I have started mine but I just haven't found the right tarp to put on the top of it yet
First thing I'd do when I walked in there is run that coat hook into one of my eyes. lol
what size tarps did you use?
For the biggest portion I used a 16x10 and the sides I used a single 8x6. If you plan your cuts those sizes should do the whole thing including the door. I would spring for a better tarp because mine took some beating this winter. I have to replace a good portion of the door side is tore up. The blind did its job though 5 deer were killed out of it.
+85krink . thanks for the heads up on the tarp. I planned on using thicker semi tarps to try to break the wind. also how did the erosion blankets hold up? My last question would be how did you connect the blankets to the tarp, and the tarp to the cattle panel?
The erosion netting got tore up pretty bad. I am currently researching for a new or different material to use. If I can't find anything I will use the netting again. It wasn't very expensive. I used fence nail to connect the tarp to the base and stretched it over and did the same on the other side. (That was for the main portion). For the sides I folded and duct taped and zip tied it to the main structure. One thing I would change right now is to add circular pvc to the sides to help eliminate sharp edges to reduce the tearing of the tarp. The erosion blankets were laid out on the structure and zip tied together to almost form a "slip cover". The netting was not attached to the structure, except the door.
+85krink awesome thanks for the help cant wait to build this and put it in my food plot
Good job daddy :)
WIFE IS A KEEPER LOL
It's a place to poop in the woods.
I was good with it until he said it was gonna get the wife out hunting with him too....
+Rancho No Dinero May I ask why you were ok until I said my wife wanted to go with me?
+85krink Cause I don't want to build anything so comfortable that my wife wants to go hunting with me.... ;)