Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Aldeer General Forum My Old Wooden Stand: Who's Old Enough to Have Used One of These?

Even just regular 2x4 nailed to the tree...better be sure you step more or less on the center, over the nails, or it'll tip and dump you!

Yep. Hunted out of those back in the 80'-90's then went to steel ones.

Hunted more stands like that than I can even count. Still have one on a food plot on my place like that that hasn't been used in 15 years or more. As far as those steps are apart, no way I could get in that one now

I put a Volkswagen beatle seat in one I built back in the nineties and you could sit in that stand all day. Very comfortable but I had to tie myself to the seat to keep from falling out when taking a nap.

Got a wooden ladder on one of our green fields. We do have rails around it and a folding chair to sit on though.

I started hunting in the 80's, back then that's pretty much what you hunted out of. That or a stand built up in a tree. Some were death traps for sure!

Spent many hours in those! Took folding lawn chair and put on them folded it up and down when I got there and left. Lord what some great memories.

I remember having that happen. You got to put several nails in the tree and some times that was difficult to do without the board splitting.

In the 70's, I bought the very first baker climbing tree stand from Biggs Sporting Goods in Pensacola. Everyone laughed at me until they saw how easy it was to transport and set up, versus the wooden ladder. It was very dangerous and had no seat or climb er. I still have mine as a keep sake.

We use to put some angle on ours and make the seat back extend past the tree to nail another 2x4 piece to hold it to the tree. I figure ours were pretty safe, but NOT comfortable. Nothing wrong with an old wooden ladder stand. Love it!

Hunted alot out of those. We're deer blind back in the 70s?

I have one on the back of my place my best friend built around 1975. He killed a couple of deer out of it, but one afternoon he carried a couple of 6 packs with him and after a while he fell out and broke his collar bone and a few ribs.

This right here!

I'm old enough to have hunted that stand, and rode a damn Baker down a tree a time er three. We used to just climb a tree and stand on a limb. It's a wonder any of us made it to 30. I think damn near all of us fell out of a tree at one time er another.

We still have, use and build em.

That's a valid question. I think I saw more deer while I was sitting in various 14 foot wooden stands than I ever have while sitting comfortably and higher up in my Summit Viper. It's crazy and illogical.

I had a challenge with that ladder 20 years ago when I was a very young man. I could climb up and down dressed in heavy clothes, but it was a pain.

Then I'd try to fight squirming this way and that when my butt and back started hurting on that hard wooden seat.

It's no wonder all us ALDEER guys have back, knee, and hip problems. And twice as much pain for those who played high school football.

Use them now. Still build them new Only better than those pics

Mostly 16 ft. Some 18

Killed my first 2 deer out of wooden 10' ladder stands...n had numerous deer walk by at less than 20 yards without spooking. That treebark camo must've been the trick!