Anyone willing to share their ideas on how to make a homemade stickman that is easy carry around and cheap to make?
Home-made Stickman?
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The cheapest is 2 blind poles holding up a white t-shirt. Wind doesn't blow them around either.
When not using them for marks you can use the blind poles for their origonal intent.
When not using them for marks you can use the blind poles for their origonal intent.
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I trained with a pro trainer out of Chicago this winter and he had taken two electric fence poles the farmers use that are plastic with a sharp point and used a white pice of plastic that he tied on the poles with plastic wire ties. they were about 4 foot tall and rolled up easy when he was was ready to leave .They were cheap and took up hardly any space when stored.
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White painter's coveralls (tyvec or other) from lumber co. (as little as $3)
6 ft plastic covered garden stake ($2)
drill hole in top & thread wire coathanger thru ($?)
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Stickwomen:
add black bra ($? don't ask me, I got mine as a judging gift for teasing all day about stick women.)
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Important:
Name the stick people. Mine are "Chris" , "Nicki", "Evan", ...
6 ft plastic covered garden stake ($2)
drill hole in top & thread wire coathanger thru ($?)
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Stickwomen:
add black bra ($? don't ask me, I got mine as a judging gift for teasing all day about stick women.)
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Important:
Name the stick people. Mine are "Chris" , "Nicki", "Evan", ...
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I've been to Home Depot to look for the $2 garden stakes. Have not found them yet. Do you think they could just be a Mid West thing to grow corn? Has anyone seen them in Texas? If so who carries them?
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I went a little fancier with mine but they are durable and hold up well. I had some aluminum angle laying around from my blind project last year and fabbed up a stake with a foot peg to push them in the ground. The prototype stake was bolted together but I had the students at the tech college where I work weld me up a batch of them. They work good for holding blind stakes too. Bolted a piece of 1/2" conduit to the stake by putting the conduit in the "V" of the angle and drilling two bolt holes out the backside of the V. Took a piece of conduit about the width of my shoulders and bent the ends down a bit (that's not really necessary) bought some snap in caps to seal the ends so they didn't grab the fabric all the time. Bolted the cross-arm to the upright and use tyvek overalls that I cut off at the waist to hang on it. I'll post up some pix if I can remember to take them when I get home tonight.
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I use holding blind poles (Butch Green will sell you them seperately ) Made a "T" out of PVC pipe stick that on top of the holding blind pole and then throw a white bird bag over the top......I'll also add that I've heard nothing but great things about Butch Green's diamond shaped stickmen......
FOM
) Made a "T" out of PVC pipe stick that on top of the holding blind pole and then throw a white bird bag over the top......I'll also add that I've heard nothing but great things about Butch Green's diamond shaped stickmen......FOM
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I made a cheap version using the white Tyvek coveralls if they had added so much to the cost I would have used half manneqins and put the rubber masks of Nixon, Clinton, and Bush. Imagine seeing one and two former Presidents as your bird boys. It sounded fun until I found the price of the mannequins and masks were about $100.
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You can get the 4 ft electric fence poles at Tractor Supply. The thing that make using two of these running up the inside of a tee shirt nice is that the wind can't blow them around. On none windy days I can use the Dogs Afield Stickman. But don't like them on windy days.
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I got a length of 3/8 " rebar. cut five foot lengths, and welded 2 foot tees, 4" foot pegs, sprayed with clear lacquer. I got 4 stickman "t's" out of one commercial lenght. Put an old white tee shirt on the close ones, an old lab coat on the far ones. I am still working on a servo activated "retired gunner". Know how, but just haven't done it yet.
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Electric fence posts and turn an empty dog food bag inside out, cost about $5.00
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Two plastic fence electric fence post with a white feed bag slipped over. They don't blow around, are very visible, and roll up nicely. The feed bags are .25 new. The fence posts are about $2.
They also make great signs for events. Spray paint the stake name an an arrow on the bag.
They also make great signs for events. Spray paint the stake name an an arrow on the bag.
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Tyvak Painter Jumps (with hoods) and white electric fence poles (two spliced together with duct tape to make them taller).
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What the heck!!!!
Casper the Friendly Stickman!!!
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Looks like a Klan meeting. I think I would lose the hood.Tyvak Painter Jumps (with hoods) and white electric fence poles (two spliced together with duct tape to make them taller).
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