I love my alpha sit and climb stand had it for many years and took some nice bucks/does with it only prob i have with it is if you wear rubber boots like i do (cabela's 1200 insulated) it is hard to put them into the area where you need to to on the platform..i asked them about that afew years ago and they said they have no plans to change the stand. also i like to sit for a lil while. about 2hours bf sunset in my area..but sometimes you get a suprise and have to stand up...but you cant just fold the seat and stand..it will fall down and make noise.. you have to stand and at same time grab seat and swivel it around and try to twist it and drop bh tree out of way and rest it on the tracktion belt of the platform.. great stand and i love it's lightness and stealth..but the seat is a PITA..been thinking of buying the new sit/climb/folding seat they got. alil more work..but..otherwise LW makes a great stand and if anyone can tell me how to allivate my prob with the seat on my stand i would be greatly appcted!!!