I use climbing sticks and made a pulley system on peice of pipe that I squared off. The pipe is slightly smaller in diameter than the square tubing on my climbing sticks so it slides the legnth of one step in and then it sticks out about 1 foot. Drilled a hole in the pipe about 2 inches back, ran an eye bolt through the pipe, and hooked a small pulley to the eye bolt. Note: you will have to open the eye bolt slightly to put the pulley into the bolt and then hammer it closed again. Then what I do to hang the stand is put the the rope through the pulley, (you will want double the height/length of which you are hanging your stand), tie one end of the rope to the stand and one around you, you will want to use your climbing aid for this step, once you have climbed the sticks and have them secured, you can now pull up your stand while youre at the top, or you can climb back down and pull it up, tie off the rope and climb up and attach to tree. It sounds like a lot of work but only takes a few minutes to hand the stand and its safe.