Summit is lightweight and strong. I was interested in the Equilizer until last weekend. Iwent to a hunting expo and Iasked the lady demonstrating the stand a number of questions about the durability of the hardened cranking handle. She suggested to turn the handles around or remove them when carrying the stand because they do sometime break off. She was selling extra handles at the show. Last thing I would want or need is to break one of those off going to my hunting location and not have an extra handle. Just my opinion