Fatboy blind project

[novacaine]

Project Scope:
Rebuild old blind with new Fatboy accessible blind that will provide years of fellowship, fun, and comfort.
Tear out old- locate and orient new blind
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A fatboy on the new decked out Fatboy blind. We left the 2 small trees in the deck........we blocked out the floor joist for future growth.
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[novacaine]

Shooting rail and back wall up after much sweating and many water breaks..........we can't hang like we use to.
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Deck and sidewalls-The old plywood is from a Katrina project so we are environmentally friendly due to our recycling efforts.
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[Tedl10]

Looks great!

[driveby]

Looks good Bill.

[novacaine]

We painted our roof tin and will install it this weekend if it doesn't rain. We will spray gun the entire blind this weekend hopefully.
Bench installed
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[RedEyed Duck]

Looking good, we have always painted with generator and use of a spray gun out in the field. May be overkill but I'm not willing to skip that step. Just not worth the worry on my part.

[novacaine]

Looking good, we have always painted with generator and use of a spray gun out in the field. May be overkill but I'm not willing to skip that step. Just not worth the worry on my part.

We have a new generator and new spray gun...........we plan on painting everything on the farm olive drab........including the rolling stock!

[novacaine]

Finished the tin roof this weekend and added a few other items. We will bush up the blind over the next few weekends, then add a little water and hope for the best. We may never shoot a duck out of this blind but we will ABSOLUTELY have a large time!
Out front

Inside the blind

The Plaque!

[novacaine]

Back side..........we will probably cut a port on each corner of the back wall

Cypress skylight

We will put the boot grate on blocks.............don't trackup the house please!

[novacaine]

Out front

Out back

Sideview

[Blackduck]

That looks great. I like the green and two tone trees out front. Is that in sunflower county

[novacaine]

That looks great. I like the green and two tone trees out front. Is that in sunflower county

Leflore.......on a friend's place.

My drawing and coloring skills haven't improved much since kindergarten.

[teul2]

That looks great. I like the green and two tone trees out front. Is that in sunflower county

Right next to that place you used to hunt south of town.

[Roach]

but what's it look like from above? You've got everything else covered.

[novacaine]

but what's it look like from above? You've got everything else covered.

Got that covered also. We left the tall 2x4s sticking up to strap trees/vegetation vertically along the front plus we will strap trees over the top to break up the flat olive drab shine from above.
I will also add breakup colors to the tin before i put veg. on top. Tree growth will just make it better over time. I will post an aerial view later on when complete and at full pool.
Its a work in progress but i have big plans for the area. We have 3 more areas to develop on the farm to make it more accessible for 80+ year old hunter (+ a few 50 something yr olds).
Me and my buddy should have started this 10 yrs ago but he said it best "we were just to busy running kids to events". We are having a blast now though.
We plan on making up for lost time.