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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:09:37 PM EDT
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Why don't you just say you want to build a treehouse?
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:15:13 PM EDT
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Guard tower. Hang a sign on it that says Luft Stalag 13. Now you need a stalhelm (German steel pot). Practice yelling, "Halt!" and "Hande Hoch!" (hands up!). If anyone asks what you're doing, reply, "I know nuthing!"
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:20:01 PM EDT
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why not build something on your roof and mount a 50 in it.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:20:09 PM EDT
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Sink a telephone pole with a platform on top...for whatever wacky reason you want a watch tower.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:25:14 PM EDT
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Why don't you just say you want to build a treehouse? 
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:29:51 PM EDT
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I would build a tactical treehouse but my HOA would probably give me grief about it. You on the other hand need to go ahead and build it.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:32:52 PM EDT
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I watched a show about building houses in the trees when my friend was in the hospital, some were so awesome I would live there.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:33:06 PM EDT
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The BSA Fieldbook is what you seek.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:36:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:40:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:41:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:46:37 PM EDT
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Is your name Rusty Shackleford
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:47:07 PM EDT
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I've always wanted to get one of the old forestry service smoke/fire lookout towers. I priced them recently, including the labor, etc. Surprisingly affordable. Around 30k in my area. I'd want one big enough to sleep 3-4 with some modifications, though.
ETA: Dat sniping potential tho!!! |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 9:59:26 PM EDT
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I've always wanted to get one of the old forestry service smoke/fire lookout towers. I priced them recently, including the labor, etc. Surprisingly affordable. Around 30k in my area. I'd want one big enough to sleep 3-4 with some modifications, though. ETA: Dat sniping potential tho!!! 
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:01:32 PM EDT
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If you're gonna do it do it right! 
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/74472/image-276205.JPG |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:03:01 PM EDT
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Maybe a place holder.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:05:26 PM EDT
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I'm working on going underground
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:08:55 PM EDT
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The plans are at my link.... build it! Just make a build thread. |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:13:17 PM EDT
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I missed your post the first time through. Down here they've been dissasembling a lot of them. They get paid for tearing them down and as a side business, re-erecting them. Still don't have the money for such luxuries, unfortunately. Now that I've thought about it though, maybe put that bitch on air BNB, financial problem solved. |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:15:53 PM EDT
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Sink a telephone pole with a platform on top...for whatever wacky reason you want a watch tower. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_o0ttTypVB4/UhAt3fChE-I/AAAAAAAAJMs/6BlZH5hNgI4/s1600/tower.jpg
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:18:14 PM EDT
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I've always wanted to get one of the old forestry service smoke/fire lookout towers. I priced them recently, including the labor, etc. Surprisingly affordable. Around 30k in my area. I'd want one big enough to sleep 3-4 with some modifications, though. ETA: Dat sniping potential tho!!! |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:19:37 PM EDT
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There's a place not too far west of Foley Missouri that has a tall tower just west of the house. I haven't seen it for a while, I think it's 4 stories tall. I've flown around it several times because it's an amazing sight.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:37:51 PM EDT
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I always imagined that I'd grow up to live in one of those. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I've always wanted to get one of the old forestry service smoke/fire lookout towers. I priced them recently, including the labor, etc. Surprisingly affordable. Around 30k in my area. I'd want one big enough to sleep 3-4 with some modifications, though. ETA: Dat sniping potential tho!!! |
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:47:05 PM EDT
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I always daydream about an observation deck type thing on the roof. Attached, shaded, electrical, chair. Maybe a giant spot light.
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Posted: 8/9/2017 10:58:22 PM EDT
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Yeah, but I call them "deer stands"...
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Posted: 8/10/2017 12:12:48 AM EDT
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Imagine the thigh and calf definition you and your special lady friend would have after living in it for a month. I'd have to devise an elevator for food and consumables at the minimum. I don't trust myself to build one for human cargo. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I've always wanted to get one of the old forestry service smoke/fire lookout towers. I priced them recently, including the labor, etc. Surprisingly affordable. Around 30k in my area. I'd want one big enough to sleep 3-4 with some modifications, though. ETA: Dat sniping potential tho!!! |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 12:38:29 AM EDT
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The house next door to one of my friends has a concrete silo in the back yard. My friend's house is a large Victorian that was once the manor house for a much larger tract of farm land that included the silo and it was never torn down when the property was subdivided into housing lots. He actually tried to buy a strip of land and the silo from the neighbor so he could turn it into a "fort" for his son but the owner's wouldn't sell the out-parcel. We make jokes about commandeering it in the event of a zombie outbreak and using it for overwatch since it has a couple of openings at the top.
Another of my friend's fathers bought an old Forestry Service fire tower and had it moved to his river property. It was fairly expensive to move and reassemble as I recall. He had it furnished with some basic stuff and he'd go up there to sip his drinks, smoke a pipe and read while the sun set. The guy was kind of an eccentric psychiatrist, but then saying a shrink is eccentric is kinda redundant. |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:42:54 AM EDT
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My dad may or may not have built a "water tower" that we never got the water tank lifted to. He enclosed the first and second stories and its fun to smoke cigars and play Risk in when all the guys are over.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:48:33 AM EDT
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Yeah, but I call them "deer stands"... |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:49:03 AM EDT
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I tried to convince the guy who owns the property I hunt on that we need one.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:49:28 AM EDT
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I've watched too many old war movies. The guard tower is always the first thing that gets blown up.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:52:21 AM EDT
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The BSA Fieldbook is what you seek. I honestly forgot I started this thread. Must be the pills from hip surgery |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 1:57:42 AM EDT
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Park this in your yard.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 2:12:06 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2017 2:19:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2017 3:20:46 AM EDT
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That's what we call deer stands.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 3:21:36 AM EDT
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Not yet!
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Posted: 8/10/2017 3:39:39 AM EDT
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If you're gonna do it do it right!
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/74472/image-276205.JPG |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 7:32:33 AM EDT
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A tower would be cool, especially one with a water slide.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:01:12 AM EDT
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A tower would be cool, especially one with a water slide. https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1wetCJFXXXXXrXXXXq6xXFXXXF/small-water-slide-design.jpg_220x220.jpg
Me, I have always wanted a fire pole in my house. Spiral staircase to go up into your tower, pole to get out quick b4 the Krauts blow it up! 
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:04:01 AM EDT
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Yeah, but I call them "deer stands"... |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:07:10 AM EDT
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My parents bought a camper from a local guy here and he had one in his yard. It was setup like a castle tower with shooting slots cutout. Looked like he modified and old oilfield water tank.
Seemed like a pretty neat dude; he also had some sort of underground thing going because I could see some ventilation stuff. |
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:15:17 AM EDT
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No tower, but I have a few fighting postions dug in the woods around my home.
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:42:14 AM EDT
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I've watched too many old war movies. The guard tower is always the first thing that gets blown up. 
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:43:29 AM EDT
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Why?
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:44:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2017 8:47:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2017 9:33:32 AM EDT
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Why? 
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Posted: 8/10/2017 10:12:03 AM EDT
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If you want the thrill of being up there, that's cool.
If you just want to see what's going on you could get a drone or put a pan and tilt camera on a stick for $100. 
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Posted: 8/10/2017 10:20:44 AM EDT
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I've always wanted to. Two telephone poles, spliced together so the top is above the treeline, a small platform at the top, accessible by climbing rope/ascenders. Rappelling down would be fun as well.
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