RE: Low Cost, simple, safe Tree Stands you make in Y-Tree
gleason ; thats fine , we have been making steps like that for the last 20 years. the only thing we use light chain with hooks on the end.
the rope you use will get old and brittle; (I know a friend wanted to use it rather than the chain and luckly for him it was the bottom step that the rope broke) also he found the squirrels will eat that poly woven rope. we use lineman glove bags to carry our steps to and from the tree.
they work good no matter how big the tree is.
we use lock on stands with the steps. 6 or 8 steps will get you as high as you want, if it is big with limbs you got it made.
just becareful with the rope steps.