ORIGINAL: BowHntrRick
While you are climbing you must maintain at least a minimal downward force on the seat portion: simply resting your hands on this section is generally enough.
When you reach the desired height you sit on the seat and tighten the straps securing the seat to the platform. This makes for a rock solid seat/platform with no danger of the seat falling.
After spending any amount of time sitting in the seat (usually no more than sitting down once), you generally do not need the straps to keep the seat from falling as the teeth on the seat section have now bitten into the tree bark. Once you prepare to come down you will likely need to raise the seat to break it loose.
The only minor annoyance that I have is when is first mount the platform and seat onto the tree: sometimes the seat falls before I get onto the platform (and sometimes this makes unwanted noise).
Exactly Rick!I've experienced that same situation when first starting up, andmade that same noise![:@][:@]
That's just because the seat portion hasn't had any pressure put on it yet. What I do is set the platform up, thenwhen Iconnect the seat I just set it on the platform itself until I'm actually ready to start my climb. You learn these little tricks as you use a stand more and more. When I get totally set up, I usually put my butt down"heavy" to secure the seat section.
The reason I started putting that screw hook under the traction belt of the seat was because one time (when I first started using the LW) I went to stand up as I saw a nice buck coming, and the zipper of my camo pantsgrabbed the frame of the seat, and lifted it as I stood up. It then dropped down onto the platform, making a hell of a noise!![:@]Turned that buck inside out. I swore that would never happen again, and it hasn't.
