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How many blinds will be on the ground?

Posted By: S.A. hunter

How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 10:36 AM

I'm heading out tomorrow to check out the damage. 50+ MPH winds whiping through the canyons is probably won't end well for our blind.
Posted By: HWY_MAN

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 10:56 AM

No blinds on my place but theres plenty just of the fence lines, I may take my camera and hope for the best. We had allot of damage in town, tree's down and shingles every where, quite allot of damage to my roof.
Posted By: TreeBass

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 12:35 PM

hopefully mines still standing, I have two days left of the season
Posted By: txtrophy85

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 12:45 PM

ours are wired down pretty good.


hopefully they made it. need to check on the pivot too, make sure that is ok
Posted By: sig226fan (Rguns.com)

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 01:44 PM

I am hoping ours are still up. One in particular worries me, but it's got two deadman anchors and cables and ratchet straps... who knows.
Posted By: hook_n_line

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 01:50 PM

I was trying not to think about it. lol
Posted By: aeb

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 02:29 PM

Going to make the rounds today and check the damage.
Posted By: dfwroadkill

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 02:57 PM

Mine are anchored pretty good. Not too worried...
Posted By: redchevy

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 03:07 PM

Ours have made it through similar with no issues... still worying though. Also have a 3k protein feeder that is sempty and not staked down... sure hope its ok!

If I had to bet the roof on our old pole barn is gone though, just gotta go see.
Posted By: S.A. hunter

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 05:13 PM

We have a 6x8 thats five feet off the ground with cable tie downs. Its gone over once before, but that was before the tie downs. If its on the ground we will have to tear it apart and put it back together. Thats a big pita!
Posted By: rifleman

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 05:38 PM

Ours will be aight....for whatever reason we've been getting strong wind storms the last few yrs. it took putting them all back up once to anchor them down and reinforce the rooves
Posted By: Erathkid

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 06:00 PM

My blinds will be alright, but I bet the roof over the BBQ Area is history. It was gettin' jickey last time I was there. Trees are probably damaged too.
Posted By: BearkatHunter2011

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 06:17 PM

Im more worried about trees or big limbs dropping on ours.
Posted By: Stump_jumper

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 06:54 PM

We had a 10' double tower on an exposed hillside hit by a microburst 1-1/2 years ago. Just destroyed it. Also took out some big trees in a creek bottom just to the east.
Posted By: swmays

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 10:38 PM

I have a few additional trees down, but the blinds hung in there...
Posted By: don k

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 11:06 PM

Blinds are OK, but the feeder took a hit.
Posted By: stxranchman

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 11:36 PM

Blinds, windmill and feeders were all OK.
Posted By: txbobcat

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/26/13 11:50 PM

Hopefully some around our exterior fence on the neighbors were blown to pieces.
Posted By: dgilbert

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/27/13 01:23 AM

Originally Posted By: S.A. hunter
I'm heading out tomorrow to check out the damage. 50+ MPH winds whiping through the canyons is probably won't end well for our blind.


I am worried about 1, it went down last strong west winds came through.
Posted By: Sneaky

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/27/13 07:56 PM

Hopefully every single one on the lease I left. The one I just joined doesn't matter, because I have none out there yet.
Posted By: KennyLee

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/28/13 02:19 AM

About 20 years ago I went to check on my blind and couldn't find it anywhere, but noticed some of the trees were pretty torn up. Found it a quarter-mile away, laying partially in a tank, mangled as it could be.

Had to be a tornado. The blind was made mostly out of steel and weighed in excess of 1,000 pounds.
Posted By: clharr

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 02/28/13 03:00 AM

All of ours are still good. Did loose some tin off a couple of the barns though.
Posted By: Jimbo

Re: How many blinds will be on the ground? - 03/01/13 02:53 PM

Originally Posted By: BearkatHunter2011
Im more worried about trees or big limbs dropping on ours.


I moved a blind just because of this. I've seen giant limbs and tree fall with no wind at all. With the drought we've had it's not uncommon for limbs to just break off.
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