Your using a Gorilla w/sticks. A tree to put it in shouldn't be too much of a problem. It doesn't necessarilly have to be a perfectly straight tree, it just needs to be straight on the area, at the height, and in the dirrectionyou want to put your stand. Your stand can lean back ever so slightly, but you do not want it to lean to either side or forward. That not only would be dangerous, but makes for a very uncomfortable hunt. Finding a straight tree is the safest, but I have had to put sticksin trees where you had to climb at an angle to get to the stand, which would then be straight. I have hung or helped hang over 800 stands in 5 states and have seenor hung stands in most every kind of tree possible. Also not too small a tree or the wind will whip you all over ..LOL