what about straw?

If it were me Id cover it with thick black plastic so its water proof. Then Id get straw to cover it with.

 

Cheat grass or tumble weeds. LOL should have some of them cheap in OK

 

A burlap bale wouldn't look too bad actually but wet burlap might not end up real good. If there are any landscaping places, nurserys or places that sell plants then try there and ask for landscaping fabric (same stuff as the soil erosion fabric). For grass, see if anybody around has that tall ornamental grass that they want to cut back for the fall and use that. A more expensive alternative is to check out the duck hunting supply places (Cabelas, Mack's, etc) and use the stuff they sell for covering up blinds.

 

I used straw between chicken wire. Cheap and works!

 

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No wheat straw to be had around here. Drought wiped out the wheat long ago. I've already got some black plastic sheeting I'm gonna double layer around the whole thing once its frame is complete. I have a one acre horse lot in back of my house not being used and I haven't mowed it. Summer was so hot and dry here that it is more bare dirt than grass or weeds though. Already called all the local nurseries and landscapers, they don't carry the stuff. To order it online, you have to buy mass quantities. Might have to drive 150 miles to find it...

 

did you try home depot or lowes they carry it

 

Why not use fast grass for waterfowl blinds?

 

I think fishinbuff has the right idea, use chicken wire to bind whatever native grasses you do have to the outside. it is all about making it work in your hunting scenario, not everyone else's.

 

Just my two cents, I would first cover it (top sides and front with a brown or black tarp to make it wind and waterproof and then cover it with burlap.

 

I'm building a hay bale blind, but I'm having a problem figuring out what to cover it with. Another post mentioned soil erosion blanket and that would be great, but there is none to be found around here (unless its "borrowed" from the side of the highway:wink. I'm thinking maybe burlap, but I don't know how real a bale of burlap might look. With the drought here, hay is at a premium, so I can't just layer some hay between nets, mesh, or chicken wire. Any suggestions?
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Hey just curious, your cattle pannel...whats your overall length of the wire? And what is your frame lengthxwidth?

 

Frame is 4'x8'. 16'x4' hog panel. The hog panel is actually a little more than 4', so it overlaps about 4". Total area all around is about 200 sq ft.

I decided to go with the chicken wire and hay/straw/grass/weeds/whatever-else-i-can-stuff-in-there route. I thought burlap would be cheap, but I would have to double layer it. I priced it at a local farm and ranch store and it would cost $109 to cover.

Its all welded up now, just gotta figure out where to cut the windows...

 

Ya know they make the burlap in stubble and corn field patterns for waterfowlers that would probably look pretty decent. Besides, all it has to do is fool the deer and I'm thinking shape is probably more important than anything.

 

+2 on the duck blind material

 

The duck blind grass mats would be awesome. I saw one done in that on another forum and it was the bees knees. However, price is the factor between it'll work and awesomeness. I'm just a lowly civil servant in rural Oklahoma...

 

what about astro turf? they make it in brown and its cheap and durable!

 

I looked into that. At a dollar a sq ft, it would be more than $200, even at $.50 it would be over $100.

 

hmmm...I guess your gunna have to use what you got then. you know, not sure about down there but up here a lot of farmers use a white plastic wrap one there hay bales. so you dont actually see the hay itself except on the ends. I am sure deer will get used to anything honestly.

 

I built a blind a few years ago out of cattle panels to match the one I saw on the Hank Parker show. I used green tyvex house wrap. It held good till this year when wildfire got it.

 

What about Cattails,or marsh grass. I know you mentioned that you are in drought conditions, but if you could find a lake or swamp with Cattails then you could easily cover your blind with them. I think it would look pretty good, they tie on easily with some twine, and they should lats the season.

 

In Ireland people wrap their bales in black plastic and as said above the deer will get accustomed to it in a short time.
It will be water proof as well. Am going to build one of these myself to see what way it works.
Good idea, good luck with it.

 

Go to your lumber yard and ask if you could have a lumber wrap. Should be free. Then cover with what ever you have or paint it.

 

This.

 

Around here, round bales have been getting wrapped in white plastic the past 2 years or so....look like huge ass mashmallows..LOL

They would be easy to replicate!

 

i would wrap in black plastic fro weatherpfoofing then, around here i would use corn stalks. over the plastic then wrap chicken wire around it

 

I double wrapped mine, black plastic so the inside will be dark then used a brown tarp over the top of that, then i used concrete rewire to hold my grass in place, I found the grass along the road, it takes alot of grass to cover the blind

 

i want to try to build one of these to put in a corn field

 

a few more pics

 

very cool idea !!!