why we wear safety harnesses
 

By the way, we just had an article in our local news talking about a bowhunter whose life was saved by a safety harness. He was 23 feet up in a treestand when an 8 point walked by in range. Pulled the bow back and snap!his bowbroke apartjust above the riser. Next thing the hunter knows he is hanging from his stand, survived just fine due to a safety harness.

This is what I mean about mechanical parts failing, and why it is so important to wear a harness. I don't think many people fall because they just forget where they are and step off into the other side...

I also know of somebody who had a carbon arrowsplit apart when he shot it, and had some of the arrow go through his bow hand, actually bled quite badly. This did not happen up in the stand, but at the target range, luckily.

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I wear mine cuz i sleep alot on the stand.:D No but seriously i have a lot of people who care about me such as my family and beautiful girlfriend that expect me to come home and the end of the hunt. I have never fallen but have had some close calls in the past and dont care to get scared like that again. I have leaned on one side of the top part of my climber and it slide down to the platform.I almsot fell with no harness. Thats was the last straw for me. I can say i have gone the whole season with my harness on this year.

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I don't wear one, I know i really should though!

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I am the same way. There have been a couple times that were real close that I felt like an idiot for not wearing one. I hate that feeling when you loose your balance for a split second but you catch yourself.

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I just read where a Indiana hunter died from NOT wearing. [&o]It aint that much trouble to put one on and come home everyday.

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Why do I wear one? Because it's cheap life insurance that I don't have to die to collect the rewards.

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BINGO!

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because i don't want to get hurt. I'm getting older and my reaction time is a lot less. Plus i have had a stand slide down a little and to the side it hurt but not as much as falling

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i wear one because there are a whole lot more deer seasons ahead of me and i dont want to miss any of them due to an injury from falling out of a stand

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I've only been using a climber for a couple of years now, but have had enough adventures with them already to be very religious about wearing my harness. I've knocked the top half down to the platform simply by bumping it with my leg - simlilar to what someone else already mentioned. I've also had the platform slide down a wet hardwood tree about 12" while standing up to stretch. That sure gets the old ticker going. Now when I figure out where I want my climber to be, I cut into the tree with a limb saw at each of the four places where the teeth of my climber are supposed to bite. That has worked very well.

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Last weekend I put my vest on and grabbed my rope with prussic knot, bow and everything and blasted out the door in a hurry. After getting to my stand and climbing on I didn't the usual and put my rope around. Something took my attention away for a second and after getting back to everything and climbing up to about 20ft I settled in and started the wait. About two hours later I stood up to adjust my seatand decided to adjust the shirt I was wearing under my vest also, that's when I discovered I'd climbed into the stand, up the tree, fixed everything on my seat, pulled up my bow etc..etc...etc...and sat for two hours WITHOUT hooking my vest into my prussic knot. I didn't so much feel stupid, I felt relieved that nothing happened BEFORE I discovered I hadn't hooked in.

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I was watching on the news and they had a game comissioner on and he said on average a hunter that hunts out of a treestand has or will fall out of his tresstand aleast once in their lifetime. I dont no about u guys but i have fallen out of my treestand more than once and i now wear a safty harness

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I've never felt the need to wear one. In fact i usually never use tree spikes for climbing either I always find a natural set up.But frankly set your stand up properly. Dont get lazy and fall asleep and if your falling out of a tree because you have bad balance you probably shouldnt be in one. Further more siding contractors like myself across the globe rely on a plank and ladder jacks to be suficiant enough to hold them 30 ft in the air without harnesses. Since when did Hunting become a pansies sport....

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I do siding and know many who have fallen or slipped . Its not a macho or a pansy thing at all its being safe . Some projects i do if you didn't have a harness on OSHA can come along and slap you with a good fine . you are probably young i use to be that way . it isn't that hard to wear one hunt so i can't see a reason not to

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I wear one because it stupid not too. For a few bucks you can buy a
cheap strap harness. You don't need to buy a $100 built in vest.
Your life is to valuable. Wear it! The worst time is getting to the top
of a climb and trying to get situated. Twist here twist there and over
the edge you go.

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Guys, I know we all talk about how it's important to wear a harness, but let's face it, sometimes it's just too much of a PITA. Two weeks ago, I got the late night call that a friend of mine broke his neck and died after falling out of his climber. Please, make the effort to wear your harness.

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I've been shot, shrapneled, blown up, carry some unnecessary metal around,and have been blown into unconsciousness. They tell me I'm suppose to be dead. Death doesn't scare me a lot. I've been saved by a death trap old time safety belt when a stand had a catastropic failure. I own a safety harness. I wear mine because I'm afraid of heights but feel a need to be 20 feet up. Besides that, I hate pain. Besides that, I like to think I'm smarted than the duffus that says he can't stand them and has been climbing trees for ever.