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Elevated Shooting House; how to build it
Topic Started: Aug 27 2006, 02:16 PM (2,586 Views)
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Here's how to build an elevated shooting house. Build the floor first out of 2 x 6 frame and it needs to be about 4ft X 4ft square, that’ll give you enough room inside. Now you can either have the door coming up through the bottom of floor which is better as you don’t have to deal with water leaking around the door if it’s on the backside. If you put door in floor, you will need to frame inside those 2 x 6’s for a door opening. After that, use a heavy plywood floor and rip out the door opening right along the middle of the door frame, so it will rest on half of the door frame. The orther half of door frame will hold the rest of the floor around that. Now you have the floor built, next you want to build the sides. We built them in four separate pieces with 2 X 2’s. Build two sides and the 2 x 2 frames will extend out to the end of the 4 foot wide plywood. Don’t over do this frame, keep it light. Just around the edges and some cross pieces where the windows goes will do it. Next build the other two sides, but now the 2 X 2 frame will need to be offset enough so that when they snug up against the first two sides, the frames will fit inside. You now have a floor and four sides. Next build a frame for the roof and the frame will need to slide down inside the side frames from top.You can use a piece of plywood on the frame top and then some type of roofing material. A sheet of painted tin works really well. You should now have a total of six separate pieces of the house. Next, pick the place where you want to put this house and dig out four post holes for the legs. You can use landscape timers, old cross ties, telephone poles or whatever you can scrounge up. Put the legs in and use a bag of ready mix cement for each pole. Then cross brace the poles. You want the legs all the same height and set so that the floor frame will sit down over the four poles. Now it’s only a matter of two or three people to haul the pieces out to the site and put it together. Lift the floor up over the legs and nail through the 2 X 6’s to the legs to fasten it down. Two men gets up on the floor and one man on ground hands each side up one at a time. Line up the first side and with one man holding it in position, the other nails through the 2 X 2 frame at bottom fastening it to the floor. Then do another side nailing the same way. Now you can nail the two offsets frames along the sides with a few nails and you have a corner installed. Finish the sides and then raise the roof and drop it down into the side frame and nail from inside the frames all together. If you use a door through the floor, place a ladder at back inside the legs of house leaning towards the front where the bottom door raises. To get in, just climb the ladder push the door open and climb in and let the door down. You could put a lock on the door to keep it sort of private for your own use by using the bottom type door.
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