Troubles Trees
5 year old buck +
I have 2 treestands that are awesome pinch points and always produce great results during the rut in particular. The problem is by the time the rut hits the trees are barren of leaves and I stick out like a **** at a church picnic. I have gotten busted there so many times in the past I have learned to only hunt them when the leaves are still on the trees. I have gotten crafty in the past and brushed them in with evergreen branches in the past but they brown fast and are useless rather quickly. I have even gone as far as bringing in my Dewalt cordless and drilled holes in the tree to stick artificial Christmas tree branches in. They never cooperate and spin to the flat side or fall out of the holes on a windy day.
Failure is one thing I am very familiar with, but I am determined (or stubborn, you decide). 3 years ago I brought this idea to a friend that is a machinist hoping he could fabricate a small screw-in branch holder of the sorts, the idea was similar to the first picture. He still has the parts I gave him and never did anything with them :(
So I’m on a new design idea with a work friend (my welding looks like a 12 year old did it) if he gets freed up tonight to work on this. I have looked many times to find a product that is already manufactured to just buy them but to no avail. Ideally it would hold multiple branches similar to the other pictures, and have the ability to remove the branches and leave the holder on the tree to minimize damage to the tree every year.
Maybe I’m just nuts, maybe there is something already produced that I couldn’t find so I figured I’d throw it out here to see what you all would do with this concept.


Failure is one thing I am very familiar with, but I am determined (or stubborn, you decide). 3 years ago I brought this idea to a friend that is a machinist hoping he could fabricate a small screw-in branch holder of the sorts, the idea was similar to the first picture. He still has the parts I gave him and never did anything with them :(
So I’m on a new design idea with a work friend (my welding looks like a 12 year old did it) if he gets freed up tonight to work on this. I have looked many times to find a product that is already manufactured to just buy them but to no avail. Ideally it would hold multiple branches similar to the other pictures, and have the ability to remove the branches and leave the holder on the tree to minimize damage to the tree every year.
Maybe I’m just nuts, maybe there is something already produced that I couldn’t find so I figured I’d throw it out here to see what you all would do with this concept.

