This reminds me of a trip to Mercer Wisconsin about 5 years ago. My ex father-in-law and I used to hunt a lot and we decided on a trip to the homeland(he is from Green Bay). My buddy owns a gas station and set us up with some public hunting in old logging areas right outside of Mercer and we needed climbers so Hank decided to buy a Summit tree stand. I pleaded with him to try it before leaving for Wisconsin but he felt after trying my API once that he was a tree pro and having a masters in engineering how could I argue.

The first afternoon we went out he picked a tree that was pretty narrow and I advised it was a bad choice unless he wanted to switch climbers but he said nope and I went on my way after arguing for 5 minutes. I had to have walked a quarter mile, climbed 25 feet up, set my bow hanger and was settling in when I heard the screams. When I found him he was was hugging the tree with his feet and hanging for dear life to the top piece of the climber and the bottom piece was about 5 feet off of the ground. His safety harness was on but not tied off on the tree so it was dangling and all I could do is laugh and give him crap. The bottom piece was as tight as it could go and the bottom piece eventually flipped down then slid partway. Sadly this would not be the last time ole Hank had a climber issue but at least he was strapped the following two times.