My dad and uncle made their own climbers around the time the first company started producing them (EARLY 80s). they were made out of aluminum and very heavy compared to today's climbers. They were the some of the only guyshunting in most of southern Georgia/north Florida region with the new "tree-climbing stands'. They started hunting large clearcuts whileclimbing highand started killing a ton of bucks. We added up years ago that between those two stands they killed something like160 bucks together.

I hunted out of the stand two years ago when I was rotating stands during muzzleloader season. A little heavier than my other APIs, but it gets the job done!