Mid Michigan Outdoors

     As many of you might already know, I am definitely not a handyman.  Tools and I have never really gotten along, and building things just has not been something I have ever done.  Well I did build a fish shanty once, but that is about the extent of my building experiences and my use of tools.

    Speaking of tools, I do not have them.  I own a hammer, and a extending limb saw for clearing shooting lanes, oh, and a screw driver, that is it.  So how did I build this blind you might wonder.

    First I laid two of my 2x4x10s about 6 feet apart, with the bottoms even with each other.  I say about 6 feet apart because I do not own a tape measure.  I then took one of my ten foot long pieces of slab wood and nailed it to the 2x4s about 36inches from the bottom.  Then I nailed a second piece of slabwood right next to the first.  I scooted this near where I was planning on placing the blind and dug a hole about 15 inches deep where the bottom of each 2x4 was now laying.  Then I simply stood up the beginning of my first wall, got it somewhat level, and filled in the holes.  I did the same thing to create another wall of approximately the same dimensions and stood it up about 4 feet from, and parallel to the first wall.

    I used my limb saw to cut off the excess 4 feet of slabs from the six foot walls.  Then just started nailing and sawing.  When i figured it was high enough needed a window I simply skipped a space of slabwood and then began again, slowly working my way around all for sides, and the roof.  I left the roof as ten footers figuring the shade would not hurt.

    As luck would have it, there were about a dozen slabs, in the bundle I purchased from the local amish, that were only about 1/4 inch thick there entire 10 lenth.  These thin slabs were used to fill in the gaps on the walls and roof inside the blind to help keep out the weather and create a darker interior.

    A total of about 6 hours, a hammer , a limb saw, some nails, and some cheap lumber from the amish, and I now have a great blind to keep my 12 year old and I out of the weather this fall and winter.

    Yes I am a Polock!!