If this is hard to figure out I will give better pics in October when I get my stuff out of storage. All you need is a clothes hanger a cheap funnel and some black tape. Take a flambeua decoy and drill two holes in the back of the decoy,(with a bit the same size or smaller than the width of your hanger wire) one of the holes need to be in line with the long stake... Cut about 1 inch of the end of the stake off the decoy. When you do this you will notice that the inside of the stake is hollow. Next take a metal coat hanger and cut it like the one shown in the pic. One short end and the other end about 14 inches long. Now run the long end of the hanger wire all the way thru the cut end of the stake, push the other short end of the coat hanger wire in to the other hole on top of the deek. You will have excess wire sticking out the bottom of your stake thats fine just bend it back up along the outside of the stake. (this is important for stability)Tape the excess wire to the base of the stake. Marv uses shrink wrap. Now all you have to do is tape a funell to the end of what ever type extendable pole you use for hanging. Sit the decoy in the funell and hang him on a limb. To take him down just push him off the limb by putting the funell back in the stake and unhook him. I swear before Marv from Iowa gave me this idea I had pure hell hanging sentry's now it is a snap. I can hang ten sentry's in less than 4 minutes. Ive timed it, it is AWESOME If you have any questions ask away. I know this is not very clear but when I get my stuff out I will be more precise.
Speak for yourself Jon.............anybody that has been on this site for more than a month knows what a brain you are!!!! Most of us regular sacs have to put thought into things. Guys like you and Shane can do things in your sleep a normal guys has to go to college for 4 years to do
Well,Well, these are the pics.you have been tellin me about for a year!! Good Idea,I use something similar. Thats whats great about crow stuff,your only limited by your imagination.
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Chip , Jon would have thought of it , then he would had me build it. Its one of those, " Hey Pup, I got an idea for you to build " . Plus he can't stand to carry anything other than his gun and foxpro.
LOL,,,,, Ya pup I know what you mean... If I lived close enough to shane we would both be retired. With his brains and hands and my imagination we would invent something that would make us rich for sure,,,, Shane I wish I could post the pics that Marv sent me. He was kind enough to go to the trouble to take several pics with a camera and send them with some hand written instructions. Its an awesome idea. It cost about $3.50 for the funell and the hangers. It truely sucks hanging Sentry's when you are in a hurry. I swear this is the answer. I think on opening day I will hang ten of them and put my boondockers on the ground. Now see Whiteknuckle had an idea and went with it. He has come up with the perfect decoy. I bet his wife don't gripe at him now for spending to much time in the garage
Chip, Just one bit of clarification on the instructions that you gave. I use 4 pieces of light weight alum. tubing for my poles, and do not tape the funnel into the tube to set the deeks. Just set the spike of the deek into the tube and start feeding the sections up thru the trees, adding a section as you go higher. To get the deeks down, THEN I put the funnel into the end of the tube, and reverse the process to get them down. Just shove the deek spike into the funnel. lift it high enough to clear the hanger hook off the limb, and then procede to lower the deek to the ground, taking the pole apart as I come down. Just the way I do it. Hope this works for you guys.
Where you been Marv??? The end of my pole is solid thats why I tape the funnel on. I think I will end up taping a piece of tubing on the end of my pole so the funnel can snap right in. I think the boys here on the site will even improove on the concept. Hell Shane or pup will probably have a 60 foot titanium hanger
Tried to do the coathanger mod on my Flambeau deke. I found that the peg is solid for one inch below the body so I will use the eye in the middle of the back to mount a coat hanger hook on. I will use about a 6 foot stick with an open hook screwed into the end to mount my "attention getters" in the branches. I should be able to get them about 10 or 11 feet off the ground. Taking them down will be easy also. Just unhook them with the stick. This should work very well and will be easier than throwing fish line up in the tree and pulling them up. Marv's method would be great if the peg is hollow as described.
Trench,,,, They are hollow,,,, you may have to cut off more of the stake on some of the deeks but you will find at some point they become hollow. If I cut an inch off of one and dont hit the hollow part I just drill in to it and find it
I tried this. GOod thing the hanger os flexible because that first try had the thing leaning a little too far forward. Balance was off. Now I have it so it looks quite regal.
Thanks Chip for your kind reply. I did not state clearly enough that my deke spikes were hollow only for 1 inch below the body. I found this out by cutting a bit off as I went up the spike. I think that there are different spikes on this brand. I'm still going to use the hook through the eye on the back . Was in the hardware store this morning to look at electrical conduit to use to put them up in the trees. I found a collapsible tent tole that goes up to 8 feet for about 9 bucks. This will get them up about 15 feet up. I don't see much use for tree dekes until the leaves are pretty much gone. I'll look for a good set-up before then and have this idea ready to go if it looks usable. Oh, the hanging hook that goes through the eye can be anything handy like a coat hanger hook. I try to keep stuff simple. Regards to all.
I recently modified a decoy retreival collapsible pole for duck hunting to hang up crows in trees. It should give me 15-20 feet in height and it is already camoflauged. I wonder what the neighbors say when they look out and I am hanging plastic crows in trees....
Home depot has paint roller handles that are about 6 feet each. The top has a thread and the handle has a socket so you can screw one into the bottom of the other. They are orange but a littlle paint....
I started with a 12 foot golfball retreiver and now I use a 18 foot decoy retriever. I can get them up 25 feet. I use the hanger method with a third point of contact. Someone posted the idea a couple of years ago. A hook for the deek, a hook for the tree and a section of wire to the side for the retriever to hang on to. The middle of the hanger looks like triangle. I already chopped off all the pegs, so I can't go back.
Sounds like a few of you fellas took to the idea of how I hang my sentry deeks, that I shared with Chip. Hope that you can use the idea, or improve it for your needs, and that it works for you. I do use four sections of light weight alum. tubbing that I got in a scrap yard, and made some plastic plugs to fasten them together, one section at a time. The system really works great for me, and I can get mine up to approx 25ft. I have even used the poles to set one sentry "above" the trees, even when the leaves are on the trees. I usually set about 6 deeks, and the rest are out as far on the limbs as I can hang them, when the trees do have leaves yet. Perhaps Chip will post the rest of the pics for you later, so that you can see........."the whole picture". Good luck guys. Marv.
I'll have to gather some pics of my same decoys and what I did years back to make it easy to cart 6 in one hand without string .....And I never could push them plastic decoy stakes into the soil unless it was in a chopped corn field after a rain..so I removed mine and made up some different stakes....
Chip,I Will have to gather 6 more hard decoys and make some like them you made for later in the season...
No No Scottie don't cut them stakes off,,, Shanedog uses a cordless drill, Us "ignurnt" Southern Boys use a hammer and a screw driver , Sure is hell on the hand though when its 26 degrees and you miss the handle on that screw driver!!!LOL!!!
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So I can just buy a new batch as it will Give the wife and I a reason to travel to Rochester N.Y. to Gander mt. or a trip to Dick's Sporting goods in Elmira N.Y......
Also it will Add 6 more to my decoy Spread..He he ..And I am Adding a large metal tool box on the back of my 4x4 quad,to cart the decoys and my front rack with have a wooden shallow box for ammo,and my other gear and shotgun holder has been mounted ....
And it still fits on the tow behind utility trailer along with my layout blind.....
While corn stands, the farms seem to Plan rows and leave a open area for Hay and clover..and the crows are landing in them open zones,where I shall set up the decoys and sit on a folding chair just inside the rows of corn.....
But I doubt this one case of 100 shells will last me more then two days,so i may have to hit up wal-mart for another case....
As I may Finally get my nephew Hooked on crow hunting,when he connects with a few....
I've used that exact set up many times...I love standing in corn that is adjacent to a fresh cut hay field. Corn makes a great blind...and you don't have to set anything up...just your stool and ammo case.
You can also take the hanger and leave it long and use the BoonDocker dekes for your sentries,I can see the wind moving them puppies around for some realism.
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That being said,,,,,,,,Scottie you might want to look into them Boondockers,,, beat the heck out of the Flambeau's,,,,,,,,,,They are flocked very well ,,,,, Give doug a call at crowmart
If you have any questions ask away. I know this is not very clear but when I get my stuff out I will be more precise. 
