hug the tree and climb???
 

is there anyone else out there still using a climbing stand without a climbing aid just hug the tree and lift the stand up. my whole family and a few friends all have loggy bayous (older ones) and thats what we do but ive been seeing a lot of treestand post lately and starting to feel alone in still doing this. anyone fellow tree huggers out there???

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

NOPE. I retired my old Baker the last time it took all the skin off my facee and forearms.[&:]

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

no sounds to painful .I don't want to be that out of breath climbing

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No reason to hug the tree when it's so much easier to use a climbing aid.

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I did that enough before climbing aids were invented(or may I just didn't have the money for one). There's no way I'd hug a tree to climb it anymore.

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Same here rybo, I have a Loggy climber platform which I only use as a lock on now. When I first bought it I was a tree hugger. I then invested in the climbing aid that Loggy offered. It wasn't fun going up, kinda fun coming down like a firemans pole though.

I believe my cousin still does this, at least the last time I saw him.

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Come do that here in SC on our pines. You will literally be eaten to death by fire ants. I wish they would all die and burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!![:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

i still have a baker in my dads shed and that thing grips like no other really it cuts into the tree. i just make sure i have a sweatshirt or jacker on and i dont get any marks on me and the speed is too much for me to give up until i can no longer do it. i can get to my tree and be setup sitting down in less then 2 minutes and quietly. my wife needed the climbing aid and i just hate how loud the thing is. and for being like a firemans pole i love cause if you just need to get down fast just hold loose and slide on down, haha. def not for everyone but theres gotta be a few of us left.

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i'm a sit-and-stand guy

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I used to do the huggie thing back in the 70's with a Baker Slim Jim. Then I got smarter. It's a whole lot easier using a climbing aid, more quiet and I don't work up as much of a sweat.

Do yourself a favor. Leave the testosterone at home. Make it easier on yourself. You only have to fall once to be a statistic.

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

Are you serious? Why would anybody still climb a tree like that?

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Yeah, it is great fun until the thing catches and it jars your insides hard enough to rupture the spleen:D

I retired the old tree hugger years ago. Too many cuts, abrasions, curse words, and frustrations. When all bulked up in the winter with the tree a little icy, you might as well have been peeing in the wind;)

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

I still have the Loggy climber and use it every once in a while - depending on where I'm hunting, what the timber is like, how high I need to be, and whether I think I mightwanna leave the stand out there for a week or so (not really keen on leaving my good climber lay in the woods).

I've ruined a lot of good clothes running up and down black cherry and shagbark hickory trees - really tears up the inner forearms, and is hell on zippers. They sold a climbing aid, but Icouldn't justify spending the extra cash, and/or carrying the extra weight. Just man-up doggy.

I never minded it all that much, except for when the tree was wet. That sucked, b/c your whole chest and forearms would be drenchedby soggy bark - and that made for a lot oflong, cold sits for me. Iclimb a lot faster with the loggy, but that twangy metallicband drove me nuts. You couldget down a tree in a hurry in that baby, just kick the platform out, loosen your grip a little bit, and ride it all the way to the ground.

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During gun season, I'll pick a good tree and simply climb up in it with no stand. There are a few good tricks for climbing a tree even if it has no branches. I've found this to be an excellent way to hunt. You can get up into almost any tree and don't have to carry around a climber...

Give it a try sometime, you'll be surprised how well it works.

But I haven't been able to find many trees that work well with a bow. I guess you need a lot more from a stand, or I do anyways with a bow. But beach trees seem to be the best for bow hunting with out a stand. Lots of good branches.

Be safe,

KP

RE: hug the tree and climb???
 

No your not alone. I still do and all of my friends do. Funny thing is, we all bought our stands before we met. I've tried the two piece stands and their not for me. I still think the loggy is the best bow stand ever made and tried to buy another one from someone on the forum. He just decided not to sell it.

To me the old hugatree method is a death trap approach. The sit down/stand up method is sooooo superior, if anything you control the rate of climb and the noise factor. It evolved from the hugatree method and is sooooo much safer and quiet.

No but I'm ready too should the need arise. I've told others before who sit waiting in a tree for help while their base is on the ground that if they're waiting for me, prepare to wait a long time or as long as it takes for them to realize they can use the top and hug the tree down. :)

Everybody should already know what it will take to make that happen before they hunt in one.

PETA hug trees.......