First time posting. A couple months into teaching myself on welds. Just bought 50 ac in Ga and would like to outfit it with 3-4 tree stands. Of course I want to weld something for them. I'd like to make them so they could mount on single hardwood trunk and be removable. I was thinking of fabbing 3-4 brackets per tree that could be anchored at 90 degree separation. Then drop decking on top in prefabbed sections. I have some PVC 1"x4" decking that would be perfect.
Question: If there were 4 brackets and each extended 4ft out from tree trunk, what material would you use? Figure there would be 400lbs in humans up there maximum at a time.
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Firstly, welcome aboard Tuck'd.Tuck'd wrote:First time posting. A couple months into teaching myself on welds. Just bought 50 ac in Ga and would like to outfit it with 3-4 tree stands. Of course I want to weld something for them. I'd like to make them so they could mount on single hardwood trunk and be removable. I was thinking of fabbing 3-4 brackets per tree that could be anchored at 90 degree separation. Then drop decking on top in prefabbed sections. I have some PVC 1"x4" decking that would be perfect.
Question: If there were 4 brackets and each extended 4ft out from tree trunk, what material would you use? Figure there would be 400lbs in humans up there maximum at a time.
Secondly, while I hate to sound like someone's grandma...be careful. I've been welding for awhile now and though I don't know much about tree stands, I also don't know much about metallurgy or material stress/fatigue. Maybe you do. I'd think very carefully before putting myself or anyone else on a stand that hadn't had all sorts of stress analysis figures run on it.
One decent fall is all it takes.
Again, sorry to nag.
Kym
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Never weld up tree stands or ladders...especially aluminum. There are many affordable and safe tree stands on the market. If you build a stand and there is an accident, you could get sued into the stone age. Let the commercial tree stand builders get sued. I refuse any and all tree stand repairs and refuse to build any ladder of any material.
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Your own property......build a couple platforms out of wood.