Good advice from all here! Once you climb up and put a rope with a tag-end that reaches the ground around the tree. Attach it to the stand to hold it in place, detach your straps that are holding the stand to the tree and climb down. Then you can start to push the stand away from the tree while using the long tag-end of the rope to gently let the stand down! Just think it out and be safe! If it went up OK, it can come down OK too!