My wife worked at a large retail department store in Madison, WI. After Christmas, there was a employee drawing to see who would get the artificial Christmas trees that were used for displays in the store. She won a 7 foot tree. I own and operate a tree farm, so it was immediately stored in a corner of the garage. I finally got around to cleaning out that corner and wanted to do something with the Christmas tree. I decided to take all 13 strings of lights off the tree. What a job, took over 2-1/2 hours.
I am going to snip the wire of the branches where they attach to the center pole of the tree and use them for 3-D camo on a couple of ground blinds on my land. As the background to these blinds is an area of Frazier firs, I believe this project will work our well. The outside blind walls are painted brown. This will not only give another color to the blind but it will give it some depth and texture. I hope the deer are impressed. I plan on using a utility stapler and stapling across the wire of the branches at two or three points to the wall. These branches will never rot or turn brown like a regular tree. I can arrange them in patterns especially around the windows of the blinds. I normally use military surplus camo netting around my stands, but thought this would be something different to try.
I have looked through Craigslist and found that used artificial Christmas trees can be bought for $5-$10. I would advise buying one without lights if possible. I just watched the Packers game while taking off the strings of lights.
I am going to snip the wire of the branches where they attach to the center pole of the tree and use them for 3-D camo on a couple of ground blinds on my land. As the background to these blinds is an area of Frazier firs, I believe this project will work our well. The outside blind walls are painted brown. This will not only give another color to the blind but it will give it some depth and texture. I hope the deer are impressed. I plan on using a utility stapler and stapling across the wire of the branches at two or three points to the wall. These branches will never rot or turn brown like a regular tree. I can arrange them in patterns especially around the windows of the blinds. I normally use military surplus camo netting around my stands, but thought this would be something different to try.
I have looked through Craigslist and found that used artificial Christmas trees can be bought for $5-$10. I would advise buying one without lights if possible. I just watched the Packers game while taking off the strings of lights.
