Somebody on here a while back showed or told how to cut and mount 4x4 legs for a shooting house so they will be spread out. Like using elevators or similar brackets. I’m wanting to build a stable base for a 4x6 shooting house, but I don’t want to sink the posts in the ground. The platform will only be 4 or 5 feet high. Can anybody help? Thanks

You are going to need metal brackets made for 4x4 legs. We have a guy in the club that made a bunch of them for our new shooting houses, he lives in Dothan. I'll try to get his number tomorrow if you are interested. You will need a front end loader with forks to pick it up.

https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/elevators-4-x-4-double-8%C2%B0-angled-elevators-4-pack

This one has worked well for us.

I pulled one up with a little 25 horse tractor a couple months back and it went surprisingly smooth.this was a heavy 4x6 house on 8 foot legs. One on 4 or 5 foot legs would be easier yet. I put the legs in the pockets and braces them while laying down on a trailer. Then I pulled the trailer to where I wanted the house. Then I rotated it to where the legs were off the trailer and the bottom ones were on the ground (to make that easier, when I laid it down on the trailer, I laid it on a post with a small piece of wood screwed to it to act as a pivot). This has it already started up. Then I used 2 chains. I put a 10 foot one around the top 2 legs right at the pockets with a 30 foot chain hooked to the middle.of the 10 foot one on one end and the tractor on the other end. Then I took 2 12 foot 4x4s and made an A frame out of them with a long bolt about a foot down from the top. I put the A frame as high as I could get it here the 2 chains meet to make the tractor pull more up than out. With the tractor in low range, it eased right up.

It would be easy with a front end loader, but I had no access to one. I wasnt sure it would work, but it did. I figured if it didnt, I would just cut the legs shorter until it would work.

its alot easier to prefab the house and use screws to anchor the walls up then you can back the screws out and take the shooting house in 6 pieces- 4 walls, the platform and a roof. once the platform is up set everything back in place and set the screws again work smarter not harder.

We build ours with the 4x4 being the main frame meaning they run from the ground to the roof.They are easier to move and more stable.The taller the 4x4 the bigger stake you will ha e to drive to anchor it from being blown over by the wind.

This is how we have always done them.

This is the easiest way to put them up

Yup. I have built several like that. I set one on 12' legs (14' posts) by myself with no tractor or four wheeler I built the leg assembly with braces attached, then dug post holes for the legs. I used a rope and pulley to lift it into place and filled the holes with concrete. Then I went a half mile away and did the same with a shorter one, (8' up with 10' posts) except I used my truck to pull it up. Next day I attached the ladder, and climbed up and set the floor. I made sure it was all sturdy then tied a rope to each wall, pulled them up and set them. I put a walk board through the windows, threw a rope across the top, then and pulled the roof up and attached it. I then copied the procedure on the other house. Two days, two shooting houses, and had plenty of time to goof off in the afternoons.

GKelly has the right idea. I just made a 4x6 house on a 5ft. high platform this year. For the platform I used 2x6s for the outside frame and 2x4s for the inside frame. I cut 2 10ft 4x4s in half for the 4 legs. I didnt want them to be straight down so I ran them inside the 2x6s and screwed some 1x4 pieces of plywood between the top of the post and 2x6s to make the legs angle out. I secured them with lag bolts. I cross braced them and that sucker was solid. I built the walls in sections using 2x2s and OSB. I flipped the base over on my trailer by myself and flipped it back upright in place then put the walls up. I could have done it all by myself but the front wall was to heavy so I had someone lift it up to me. I prefabed the roof frame and put the tin on it last. I was quite proud of the way it turned out. No tractor needed.

I have a 4x6 I am building in my garage now. Just lacking putting the door on, building the roof and painting. I have built it in panels and plan to assemble it in the field. I built the base of treated 2x6's and 3/4" plywood then made the walls of 1/2" plywood and 2x4's. It is overbuilt as far as studs in the walls and such. Being it's so late it will be on cinder blocks this year and I will put elevator brackets and legs on it before next season. I am glad we have a tractor with a bucket and forks for that project!

That is a great way.

I would also recommend yall read CNC's huge thread in the management forum. Yall need to build some better topsoil. That plot looks like yall are setting up a life guard stand on the dunes in gulf shores.

We just built 4. cut the end of the 4x4s on a 10 degree angle then bolted them up.

The actual plot sits below the Ridge and has a ph of 6.5. Throw and mow isn’t the only way to build good soil