Well you cant be too picky when it comes to treestand safety and I believe you are trying to find a strong heatly big tree. I myself was having issues finding suitable trees for some of my stands. My main stand is my Rivers EdgeStealthLadder stand. The only problem I have had over the past few years of owning this stand was theoverly long support brace that straps to the tree. When setting up the stand I have had to have about 5 inches of the brace sicking out past theladder, this caused meto catch myselfand clothingwhen climbing in and out of the stand. So I did some planning and decided it was time for a quick modification. I cut the length of the bar that was sticking out say 5 inches or so. I cut a piece of 1 inch square tubbing to just about the same legnth of the original brace, slid the original brace inside the new tubing and drilled some holes about 2 inches apart matching the pre-existing holes in the original brace. Thus making the support brace adjustable to any length, so now no matter what tree I find, its suitable for the ladderstand and the stand will always be square. Sometimes modifications are needed to hunt certain areas, please do this carefully and if needed, ask someone who has modified factory built stands for assistance. Always use extreme caution when using any home made or modified stand and always use your safety harness or HSS (Hunters Safety System).