Thanks fellows.I appreciate the feedback. I'm working on noise control. I'm trying to eliminate all possible noises.

So far climbing the pine tree is the noisiest. I may switch to a near by water oak. The crunching of dry bark on a pine tree is very loud. In Missouri I use a white oak....very quiet. To be honest with ya ..I think the problem is my Summit bites down to deep into the bark. This makes me have to use extra pull to loosen the bottom part of the stand.when climbing.This is causing the noise. I'm a heavy man so the teeth of the stand easily goes into the bark 3/4 of an inch..whereas the oak trees go in about 3/8ths. I believe switching trees would solve the problem. Thanks for helping me think this one out.