I purchased a platform blind and need to figure out the best way to take it down so I don't damage it.

I have some ideas but would like to hear yours please. It is 4ftx4ft and 10ft to the floor and 16 1/2ft to the roof I am including a picture of it to give you an idea what I am working with.

How well is the blind affixed to the base? If it will all lean over as one piece, that would be the best option. It looks to be on the heavy side, though. The box could collapse once you get it past 30-45 degrees.

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Get something on each side attached to it...once you pull it "over" then the other side will lower it down.

Be careful of the legs sliding once you have it broken over and be careful of your attach point because you can bend your cross member supports easily if you don't pay attention to where it will end up.

Most importantly...let it go if it starts getting western, it's not worth getting hurt over and it's easy to get hurt messing with these things. I always hate messing with blinds.

The blind floor is bolted down to the metal framework. I do believe it can lean over as one piece.

Good luck.

Drive stakes inside the frame that is on the ground so that is does not slide towards the direction it will be laying. Buy some U Bolts that have a plate that the nuts compress. Drill holes on the outside, through the framing on the walls as near to the floor as possible to attach the bolts. Run the cable that you will be using through the U bolts. You'll need two trucks to do it the easy way. Pull it over with one, anchor it with the other. As it brakes over, move the anchor truck towards the direction you have it going to lower.

Or, push it over and let the ground destroy it for a quick and easy disassembly. Build a modular box and take it one wall at a time onto your new tower. The time and effort will equal, IMO. I can take down and put up a blind built modularly in the amount of time some spend looking for all the resources it takes to take down and stand-up towers with blinds attached. Most of my near-death experiences were helping my Dad and others jack with these way over built towers with blinds attached.

Ditch the guy-wire. Drive T posts flush to the legs, making full contact. Wire the legs to the T posts.

Make sure you film the take down. This should be interesting.

This ain't that hard. Tie down the legs on the pulling down side so they don't slip. Ropes front and back on right on to a trailer. Done.

We use a winch on the back side to make sure it doesn't go nowheres but ropes work fine.

I have a similar blind, but made with "R panel".
I lower it down with the winch on my 4 wheeler.
I do have to anchor the 4 wheeler to a tree to keep it from sliding.
After hooking up the winch, i use a farm jack to lift it past the
point that it will tip over. I also stake the lower legs to keep it from
dragging the bottom toward the winch and speeding the fall.

Don’t stand under it.

I had a blind that I lowered similar. It was on 4x4 `s and I put eye bolts on it when I built it so I could lower it using my truck by myself. I would unhook my trailer (block tires) and put in front of blind and then take a long rope attached 5' from the top and begin lowering with the use of my truck. The front legs had to be staked like you said to keep it from falling prematurely. I moved it 3 or 4 time using this method all by myself until high winds near Balinger took its toll and blew it over. The blind was a loss, but the stand frame was unharmed.

Tpack, how do you lower it from front and keep it from going too fast from the back with just one rope and one person?
I’ve done several by myself but usually with remote control winches front and back.

I had eye bolts on both sides of the blind and the rope completely around the blind. The rope was tied to my ranch hand bumper and with the rope tight, I could push the blind over and the rope would stretch and let the blind tilt over slightly but not fall. Then I could lower it by backing or pulling forward with the truck. The last 3 or 4 feet I had to just let it fall onto the trailer but it never did any damage because the stand was the same dimensions of the blind. If a stand is 6x6 on the bottom and then 4x4 at the top, you would have to find a way to lower it onto the trailer without it falling or it will cause damage because it will not be laying completely flat on the trailer floor like mine did.

You pushed it over(or partway) BY HAND? I hope you can explain so nobody tries it and gets hurt. Also curious about the amount of elasticity in your rope.

tractor helps but I have used a pickup, just chain the legs to back of the trailer and pull over by hand use tractor or truck to let it down

I thought I explained it good enough. Just telling how I had done it by myself several times without any issues.

Disclaimer…. Not responsible for any damages due to unclear instructions.

I have too much elasticity in my rope...but I digress.

Here’s one we did a few years back. Used the ladder as a gin pole for better leverage and didn’t drop it on the trailer because we were taking the blind off the base before loading. My buddy on the strap had it wrapped around a tree and just let it down. Would have worked fine with a truck or 4 wheeler and we weren’t really holding much weight on either side.

https://youtube.com/shorts/4orffVFD7_M?si=E6Tp7KLxaA-FoKxv

You did good. Mine was heavy. 3/4” plywood, 2x4, and 4x4 x12 for base. I made it for a ground blind and then
elevated it. It took 3 men to stand it up from my trailer.

I would probably run a couple of ratchet straps over the roof and under the floor to make sure it doesn't come loose from the base. It looks like it has some age on it. I don't think I would 100% trust that floor to be solid enough to hold the box to the base. JimB's picture is how we have always done it.

^^^very good idea on the strap. We always do that.

Do you want to know how I learned it? The hard way and when they go they just go.

Very true. I learned it when the box came loose from the rest of it at about the 45-degree angle. The other time at about the same angle the legs folded up and it all came crashing down. Be care full.

If you do you will Bearly escape with your life.

There doesn't seem to be any middle ground when it comes to this process. There's guys that have the system down to a science, there's some on here, and then there's guys that just start and "figure it out as they go," which can result in, at minimum, a pile of scrap iron and a blind to be disposed of...possibly some body work, hopefully only of the automotive kind. I always picture a guy getting a "great" idea in the middle of it.

I don't even try it. I took Dirty Harry's advice - I know my limitations. I still occasionally have to catch my 45-year-old son when he wants to try something and tell him that no, we're not gonna try that. I was also the "Safety Director" at our company. Who knows, having had that duty might have kept me among the breathing more than I realize.