Cougar Mag brings up an excellent point......they are great if you can leave it in the same tree. Someting else I want to make you aware of. It seems that there are certain hunters who tree stand hunt. They look for stands that do not belong to them and steal them. To help protect my hang on stands, I lock the chain with a master lock and remove the bottom 4 steps. So far this system has worked well for me over the past 4 seasons.