Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
11-16-2008, 09:33 PM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 430
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
I bought a Summit stand to have for guests who come hunt, and for a spare. I don't like the Summit cable system; it didn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling, although I've not used the stand enough to know how/why the cable could slip to the next notch. I have an API I bought in the mid-90s, which I have full confidence in. It uses chains, and a locking pin goes through the chain link and snaps in place. The only way that thing is coming off is if the pin or the chain break.
Re: the harness, you need to wear that harness all the time. Once I was in a climber, facing the tree and sitting on the seat unit's safety bar. I must have put foot pressure on the foot platform near the tree, while at the same time the foot platform wasn't dug into the tree very good, because the next thing I know that foot platform was gone---about 8' down the tree (the length of the rope tying the two together). I didn't fall and obviously recovered, but you can see how it could have been bad had I fallen and not been wearing the harness.
Re: the harness, you need to wear that harness all the time. Once I was in a climber, facing the tree and sitting on the seat unit's safety bar. I must have put foot pressure on the foot platform near the tree, while at the same time the foot platform wasn't dug into the tree very good, because the next thing I know that foot platform was gone---about 8' down the tree (the length of the rope tying the two together). I didn't fall and obviously recovered, but you can see how it could have been bad had I fallen and not been wearing the harness.
11-16-2008, 09:34 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Deer Country
Posts: 2,244
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
ORIGINAL: gri22ly
Mine has some sort of locking pin and it locks in just fine.[:-] Solo, do you know Dustan Griffin?
ORIGINAL: solocamcan
That's the stupidest design on a climber I've ever seen. There is NO WAY I'd get any climber that didn't usesome sort oflocking pin.
ORIGINAL: gri22ly
Wow, glad to here your ok. Good luck. So the cable stop gaveway andslipped to the next setting? Or did the notch give way and let the cable stop slip through it?
Wow, glad to here your ok. Good luck. So the cable stop gaveway andslipped to the next setting? Or did the notch give way and let the cable stop slip through it?
11-16-2008, 09:55 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West Ky.
Posts: 1,161
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
ORIGINAL: solocamcan
Nope....that's what Im sayin, a locking pin of some sort is a must, I wouldn't trust a "tension" type cable.
ORIGINAL: gri22ly
Mine has some sort of locking pin and it locks in just fine.[:-] Solo, do you know Dustan Griffin?
ORIGINAL: solocamcan
That's the stupidest design on a climber I've ever seen. There is NO WAY I'd get any climber that didn't usesome sort oflocking pin.
ORIGINAL: gri22ly
Wow, glad to here your ok. Good luck. So the cable stop gaveway andslipped to the next setting? Or did the notch give way and let the cable stop slip through it?
Wow, glad to here your ok. Good luck. So the cable stop gaveway andslipped to the next setting? Or did the notch give way and let the cable stop slip through it?
11-16-2008, 10:10 PM
#24
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Woodford County Illinois
Posts: 250
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
Well While we are talking about it...
To night I was moving my stand to another stand tree, and my bottom was about 5 foot off the ground when I totally lost and and it went down the rest of the way with out me So there I am 8feet up still just sitting on the bark trying to grip the tree with my knees and lumber jack down... that didnt work out so well so I took off my camo utlity belt, like a white trash batman, and set it on the seat and let myself down threw the hole and jumped to the ground... So i got the stand appart and got moved...
anothter wonderful time in a treestand I had was about 3 weeks ago when we had 25mph winds... and your only moving about 3 inches each way but it feels like the whole is going over.
lastly on a but of a creepy note....
about 4 weeks ago I was up in the tree and there was little to no wind and I heard all hell break loose under me in the leaves and this stick was moving by itself... I have never made the sign of the cross and said the prayer of Saint Michael so fast in my life, well actually I have before but never in the woods....
every now and then i get paranoid in the woods... but then again you might two if you have ever read Algernon blackwood's wendigo...
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10897...-h/10897-h.htm
To night I was moving my stand to another stand tree, and my bottom was about 5 foot off the ground when I totally lost and and it went down the rest of the way with out me So there I am 8feet up still just sitting on the bark trying to grip the tree with my knees and lumber jack down... that didnt work out so well so I took off my camo utlity belt, like a white trash batman, and set it on the seat and let myself down threw the hole and jumped to the ground... So i got the stand appart and got moved...
anothter wonderful time in a treestand I had was about 3 weeks ago when we had 25mph winds... and your only moving about 3 inches each way but it feels like the whole is going over.
lastly on a but of a creepy note....
about 4 weeks ago I was up in the tree and there was little to no wind and I heard all hell break loose under me in the leaves and this stick was moving by itself... I have never made the sign of the cross and said the prayer of Saint Michael so fast in my life, well actually I have before but never in the woods....
every now and then i get paranoid in the woods... but then again you might two if you have ever read Algernon blackwood's wendigo...
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10897...-h/10897-h.htm
11-16-2008, 10:35 PM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NORTHWEST PA
Posts: 717
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
ORIGINAL: PA Hardwoods
So i hope you realize that you need to stay attached to the tree from the time you leave the ground until you return to the ground when using your climbing stand. Climbing up or down is when most climbing stand accidents do happen. I know its a pain to slide that harness and rope up and down the tree but its your life your talking about and that should be worth everything.
So i hope you realize that you need to stay attached to the tree from the time you leave the ground until you return to the ground when using your climbing stand. Climbing up or down is when most climbing stand accidents do happen. I know its a pain to slide that harness and rope up and down the tree but its your life your talking about and that should be worth everything.
X2 i couldn't agree more
11-17-2008, 04:07 AM
#27
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Plum Boro, PA
Posts: 1,423
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
ORIGINAL: moose1915
i have several summits, from new to old and i must say i HATE the new cable stop system; i think the "hinged flaps" work ALOT better.
i have several summits, from new to old and i must say i HATE the new cable stop system; i think the "hinged flaps" work ALOT better.
Stuff happens out there. I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and immediately start in with the operator error stuff.
11-17-2008, 04:14 AM
#28
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Plum Boro, PA
Posts: 1,423
RE: Scariest moment in a stand TONIGHT
BTW...I drilled a small hole through the flap and attached a cotter pin to a length of cord that Islide through the flap once I have my cable length set. It prevents the hinge from moving to the open position. Also, on those old style Summits, sometimes that hinge gets sloppy fromuseage, so at the very least, check them out and make sure it fits sng when in the closed position. If not, get out your pliers and make sure it does.
Wonder why they ever went away from the hinged design?
Wonder why they ever went away from the hinged design?
