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Benny
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Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:12 pm Posts: 23 Location: Idaho/Montana
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 Some Blind Ideas For Those Who Might Need Them
I managed to find some stainless steel bimini fittings that nearly matched the angle of my transom, so that my blind still stands straight up.
More bimini fittings, 3/4" conduit. Hogging out all of these plastic fittings was a royal PIA. I used a drill press with a bit designed to do god knows what. It got the job done.
My boat has T-rails, I took some webbing and doubled it over and through a female derlin buckle. Then attached to T-rail system. I have three per-side. Now I can remove the entire blind in about a minute or two, and all I am left to contend with are the female buckles, which I can also remove if I really want to.
Frame is bad ass, cost me about $150 and say 6 hours of labor, Took the conduit bender back to Home Depot after use.
For you southerners this is what Big Sky country looks like. We call that a pot hole.
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:19 pm |
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quackconsumer
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Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:54 pm Posts: 5582
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Yall aint got many tree do yall?
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:30 pm |
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mogumbo
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Joined: Thu May 07, 2009 10:44 am Posts: 214 Location: Oklahoma
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Yeah, that's pretty but I'd be missin' me some trees too!
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:07 pm |
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Benny
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Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:12 pm Posts: 23 Location: Idaho/Montana
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 Re: Some Blind Ideas For Those Who Might Need Them
We got us plenty of trees.
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Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:15 pm |
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wal1809
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Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:15 am Posts: 411
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That just looks freakin cold. I was up Wyoming way fly fishing last June. Cody WY got more snow the week before I got there than my area of Texas had in the last 50 years. If was June!!!
_________________ snakebreaker
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:35 am |
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indybill
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Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:38 pm Posts: 581 Location: HOUSTON
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_________________ My Chessie is the Queen of the Marsh!!!!
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who were willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson-1802
"When the Government fears the people that is liberty When the people fear the government that is tyranny"- Thomas Jefferson
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:51 am |
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Tulsa_Woody
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Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:31 am Posts: 428 Location: Tulsa, OK...Cajun by Marriage
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That's because he done kilt'm with that howitzer... Woody
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:35 am |
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slambin
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Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:21 pm Posts: 1262 Location: St. Francisville, LA
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Whats dem big rock lookin things yall go there?? Beautiful country good luck this season.
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:00 am |
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forever draggin
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Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 6664 Location: in the marsh with a boat load full of dead hookers
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boy, thats nice! u just dont see that where im from
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:38 pm |
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J_Ho
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Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:10 am Posts: 299 Location: Gonzales, LA
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Whats all that white stuff on the ground? 
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The only time I've rooted for the crimson tide, my gf was 3 days late.
FOREVER LSU
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:35 pm |
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quackconsumer
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Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:54 pm Posts: 5582
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drake11
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Joined: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:01 pm Posts: 23 Location: Ft. Bragg, NC
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I grew up in Moscow, Idaho and all over the West. Man I miss that country. Ain't nothing like it. By the way nice Blind, can't wait to get back and build mine.
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Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:55 am |
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Jace
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Joined: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:03 am Posts: 210 Location: Van, TX
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Thats pretty country... I lived in Alaska when I was a youngin. Pretty country but I'm allergic to snow! 
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scotty
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Joined: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:44 am Posts: 61 Location: Port O'Connor Tx / Seguin Tx
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Could you post a few more pics of your blind? How did you attach the frame to the front of the boat. Also, did you use screws to mount that bimini fitting or did you weld it to top of the transom??
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Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:38 am |
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Benny
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Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:12 pm Posts: 23 Location: Idaho/Montana
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