My experience with hunting blinds are usually tents set up you sit in and wait for the deer or whatever you are hunting to walk by. They can be muddy, wet and cold and leaky. The sides flap against you when its windy and can be quite noisy when gusts or rain are hitting the outside of the hunting blind. So you basically need to dress like you are outside when in those blinds.
We decided to build a nicer hunting blind that we can be more comfortable in. These are also known as "shooting houses" sometimes, set up by where wild game commonly walks by. With the fields seeded with plants deer tend to eat, this area will be a prime feeding location for deer and other game animals. We build it up high, which tends to help not be noticed by the deer. We will also put lights up shining on the fields going all night long to adjust them, then the spot lights will give us cover at night so the deer cannot easily see us through the windows. So lots planned, but first we must build out the foundation.
We will be building it in a similar way to how the duck and chicken house was constructed. The walls have already been prefabricated in the workshop. Now I just need just to pour concrete for posts. Build the base and attach the walls together and anchor to the base of the structure.
We start by filling up the 55 gallon water barrel and use it to add water to the wheel barrow as needed. We carry buckets up the retaining wall, in a spot where a small foot path was made. It takes a few dozen trips to bring enough water for the concrete.
I had a bunch of 8 foot 2x6's so we will double them up to make a 16' long foundation by 12' wide. For a hunting blind, this thing is going to be huge.
With nine poles holding up the frame it should feel quite stout. We bury them 2 feet deep and that will give us 3 feet above ground to attach the base of the building.
My foreman brings by the concrete on the skid steer and lifts it up high to place it where we are working.
That concrete will only fill half the holes, we will need to get more before the day is done. Keeping most of it inside just in case it sprinkles or rains on us. So we keep moving while the bags are out in the open. They were calling for rain that day, just luckily it just diverted at the last minute away from us.
Eventually we get to cementing the last few poles, and now we wait for them to cure. Then we can start building the base of the building.
As the sun goes down we complete the first part of the project, soon I will get some 2x6s framed and I can start building the base of the structure. With that complete then the walls can go up, and finally the roof, side panels, door and windows. Looking forward to having a comfy building to sit in when hunting, especially when the weather is bad. It will be very nice having shelter.