Porta-John Makes A Great Stand
February 10, 2008
Business article out of Louisiana (Bayou Business Review) might strike some as unusual but it seems to be a common practice across the south to buy old porta-johns and make deer stands out of them. You know the portable outhouses that you see at construction sites and rock concerts. When they wear out and are no longer useful to a construction crew or a bunch of drunk rockers some deer hunters put them on top of a platform and hunt out of them.
I suspect that at first most of these could be had for a willingness to haul them away but now the porta john business are realizing there is a market for them so they go for around $50 each. Just last week I saw a classified ad for 4 of them on a hunting website here in NC. I don’t have one at any of the clubs I hunt at but we have talked about looking for some to use as blinds. I guess when you look at Cabela’s and see they are selling basically new ones for1- 2k $50 for a used one is a good deal.
The ideal one to find is a used handicap one so if anyone knows of anyone wanting to unload a few drop me an email.
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Nice idea…… as long as they came “pre-cleaned”.
Troy
You find some I’ll clean ‘em
$2K! Yowza! You could buy a decent used camper trailer for that.
Hmm, now I just need to figure out how to build a platform for it….
Do they come with the seat still attached?? Just think Moose next year you could take a photo of you looking at your turkey magazine in your treestand then!!