Pit blinds

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Pit blinds

Postby cdiamond » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:55 am

Can you all give me some recommendations on who makes the best pit blinds and where to purchase them? Hunting located in Sunflower County.

I would appreciate any input.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby Greenhead22 » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:57 am

http://www.arkansasduckblinds.com/

Adam is a member of the board.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby H20 Fowl » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:25 pm

Ditto.. Adam makes the best pit blinds money can buy! And he will build what you want....Pm me and I'll give you his number...
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby The Duke » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:49 pm

there is a place in oxford ms across highway 6 from walmart that makes wrought iron furniture and has a bunch of nice pit blinds. I can not remeber the name of it but they are very nice
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby GordonGekko » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:07 pm

Greenhead22 wrote:http://www.arkansasduckblinds.com/

Adam is a member of the board.

Third...if you want the best call Adam.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby q.back4 » Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:09 am

Adam just delivered a pit blind for me.......it is in Sunflower Co, so if you want to take a look give me a call @ 601.408.9294 or send me an email.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby thorn01 » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:15 pm

The Duke wrote:there is a place in oxford ms across highway 6 from walmart that makes wrought iron furniture and has a bunch of nice pit blinds. I can not remeber the name of it but they are very nice



This place is Fielders Welding, Call for Steve Fielder, 662-832-1025. Hunted out of one of his blinds this last year made from an old dumpster. Pretty awesome setup. He can design and fab pretty much anything, any size.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby Locked Up » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:32 am

I know that steel is almost double what it was last year...I am adding 2 pits this year and after looking at all the prices that people wanted I just worked up a deal with a guy I know that owns a Fabrication shop and he's doing them for me. I know that the material cost for each pit is $600.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby H20 Fowl » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:53 am

Locked Up wrote:I know that steel is almost double what it was last year...I am adding 2 pits this year and after looking at all the prices that people wanted I just worked up a deal with a guy I know that owns a Fabrication shop and he's doing them for me. I know that the material cost for each pit is $600.


What gauge material and how big of a pit.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby rustypjr » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:00 am

GordonGekko wrote:
Greenhead22 wrote:http://www.arkansasduckblinds.com/

Adam is a member of the board.

Third...if you want the best call Adam.



Adams look really good. He takes great pride in his work.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby Locked Up » Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:16 pm

11 gauge and the pit will be 12 ft. I wanted 14ft foot but that was going to cost me a good bit more with the way he buys the steel sheets. He said the sheets are 6ft wide and 12 or 20 ft long so I just made it easy on him and went with the 12ft so I wouldn't have all the scrap.
I was looking on some sites for just plain not fancy 12 ft pits with a dog box, flip top and they were consistantly $1250-1300.00 now as opposed to last year this time at $600-700.
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Locked Up wrote:I know that steel is almost double what it was last year...I am adding 2 pits this year and after looking at all the prices that people wanted I just worked up a deal with a guy I know that owns a Fabrication shop and he's doing them for me. I know that the material cost for each pit is $600.


What gauge material and how big of a pit.
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby H20 Fowl » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:29 pm

What about angle iron bracing and tie downs are they included in your price... Im not trying to be a dick asking all these questions. I would just like to know becuse we cant build them for that...
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Re: Pit blinds

Postby Locked Up » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:37 pm

H2O, he quoted me the price for the amount of sheets he needs per pit and the angle iron bracing. We are using the bottom foot anchor for the anchor. The only thing it didn't include was the flip top which I can weld myself. I just don't trust myself welding the pits and seams being just a now and a then fixit welder. Also don't have all the heavy machine cutters and rollers for the edges. As for what he is quoting on the material price, he is a very close friend of my brother and I know his business handles several accounts with large coorparations and mining companies and I am sure they order several hundred tons of steel a year and maybe get a bigger break with bulk. I don't know??? Then again, my brother took his brother last year duck hunting and had a outstanding weekend of hunting minus the freezing rain. He is real close with his brother and he himself doesn't duck hunt. So in the past when Me or my brother calls and ask if he has some angle iron or left over expanded metal laying around to keep rigging up new duck hunting gadgets and ideas he always tells us to come and get it and when I try to pay him something he always tells us to take his brother duck hunting so we do.
I don't know if this figured in your pricing but he isn't charging me anything to weld except maybe some BEER.....
H20 Fowl wrote:What about angle iron bracing and tie downs are they included in your price... Im not trying to be a dick asking all these questions. I would just like to know becuse we cant build them for that...

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