Adding Height To Box Stand

Cut the current legs at the base.


Install 12' 4x4 legs using elevator brackets

That’s what I was thinking I’d have to do.

Tractor I’m gonna use can lift forks 9’6” high and level off ground. Would it be ok to just bolt the “new” legs to “old” legs with carriage bolts then X brace legs with 2x4’s? That would roughly get floor of stand to 12’ high if I use 10’ 4x4’s and bolt them roughly 2’ onto old legs.

Make A sleeve w 2x4’s to except new 4x4 then bolt it all together then xBrace the shite out of it.

Make a good stairway with a rail. Ladders are dangerous that high up. One slip with a muddy boot through the rungs and you’ll break a leg.

Any reason to not make the box stand 9' legs to work with the tractor?

Or bury the legs 12" in the ground and angle it into the holes?

We do all of these types of projects with tractors because it's so much easier. 10' high is higher than you think. If it were me I would do 8' 4x4 to keep them as one leg or cut 10' 4x4 down to size that you can lift. I much prefer a single post braced but that's just me. Wind is an amazing force.

I did this exact thing when I had a 4x6 with the 4 corner posts concreted in the ground and used as part of the frame all the way to the roof.

I took 2x10's and lag bolted them around all 4 posts as a type of skirting/header joist and then cut the posts off with a chainsaw flush with the 2x10's. That way I still have a solid frame top to bottom.

I then took some elevator brackets and built a platform 6" wider and longer than my stand and set it in place, leveled and anchored it.

After that I used tractor forks and FEL and set the shooting house on the elevated platform, and lag screwed the hell out of the stand to the platform bottom. Been hunting it for 7 years like that.

Tldr: Put a 2x10 skirt around it, cut off remaining 4x4 posts, build the elevated platform and set it, then set the stand on top and fasten.