Cunning Stunt (How to badger into posting a photo)
Posted: 29 Apr 2013, 15:01
This morning I put an aluminium scaffold tower platform up a dead old oak tree. Before you ask, the answer is no, not a yellow ribbon in sight !
The platform had been hanging around the yard for a couple of years, wedged against a fence in behind a muck heap. It worked out really well in the end, it sits really nicely just above the first fork, about 12 feet up. Some branches will need trimming later but it's pretty good where it lies so, no rush. By the time I put a rail and something to sit on up there it works out I'll be up at around 15 feet high. Nice.
The problem in this area has always been the livestock, there's a road one side and a footpath on the other too..... it's as flat as a witches proverbials and shots need to be chosen very carefully. Never been happy shooting this patch but it's been a really good choke point for foxes in the area over the last few years. Much happier now.
H
The platform had been hanging around the yard for a couple of years, wedged against a fence in behind a muck heap. It worked out really well in the end, it sits really nicely just above the first fork, about 12 feet up. Some branches will need trimming later but it's pretty good where it lies so, no rush. By the time I put a rail and something to sit on up there it works out I'll be up at around 15 feet high. Nice.
The problem in this area has always been the livestock, there's a road one side and a footpath on the other too..... it's as flat as a witches proverbials and shots need to be chosen very carefully. Never been happy shooting this patch but it's been a really good choke point for foxes in the area over the last few years. Much happier now.
H
Will check out how to do it and post when the rails go on, mate. 
