Screw in tree steps?
01-12-2009 | 07:15 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
ORIGINAL: TEmbry
If anyone believes in the products they personally use the most, it HAS to be HCH.
Not that it is a bad thing, it's awesome having confidence in your setup. Confidence breeds success....but man, it is what he uses or nothing
If anyone believes in the products they personally use the most, it HAS to be HCH.
Not that it is a bad thing, it's awesome having confidence in your setup. Confidence breeds success....but man, it is what he uses or nothing
I like Bowtech and I don't care if you like Mathews, Hoyt, or Martin. I like a Short-n-Sweet Truball release and I don't care if you like a Carter, I don't care if I use a LW hangon, a Muddy Hangon, or any other SELF LEVELING easy to hang hangon;as long as it is easy to hang, quiet, and self leveling. I just know what works in my woods and am passionate about perfecting what works in my woods. Screw in steps will not be in my woods...been there done that and have graduated on to better products imo. Glad they work for these other guys though. If we all liked the same thing....it would be a boring world.
01-12-2009 | 07:17 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
I have one of those strap on treesteps Don and use it on the bottom on occasion, but there is no way I will use it or more of them as a full set on a tree. They have too much give and free play for me no matter how tight the strap is. Guess that is why I only bought one. By the way, I can screw in a Cranford treestep faster than I can strap on that step.
01-12-2009 | 07:21 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
lol...my sister is prettier than yours. I think those staps could not even be cinched up real tight and still not slide down a tree as the weight of your body is going to lock them on. I have used them a lot and I just cinch them down and go...I feel safe. Like I said..different products for diferent folks
01-12-2009 | 07:48 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
LOl...fire away guys...convince me to get rid of sticks and use steps.
LOL..I knew I would wake up Greg from hibernation
Heck... now that the season's almost over and I need to seriously get back to work and spend more drive-time behind the wheel for work, I just may show up a bit more again. I need something to do with all that time on the road. Seriously... you mentioned the Muddy Creek products or whatever their name is. I saw a new stick Todd Pringnitz is helping those guys come out with that I REALLY liked. It incorporated a rope sort of like you put on yours, but it slips into an ascender-type holder like they use in mountaineering, albeit it's sideways so the rope can wrap around the tree and then easily slip in that. One good quick tug locks it in. VERY slick little system.
Also, when the step is lowered, another on the opposite side comes down with it. Allows the person to always have the right step out and not have to flip the ones on the LW back and forth to figure their footing out correctly; also gives the user a level platform on which to stand to hang his stand at the top.
I'll most definitely be buying a set of those when they come out.
01-12-2009 | 08:12 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
ORIGINAL: Greg / MO
Nah, that wasn't my purpose... they've both got a time and a place. Heck, even my Summit Bucksteps have a place. Rarely, but they do have one.
It's called a five and a half hour drive home from the ATA with LOOOONG stretches of interstate and nothing to do. Had to see what the natives were up to. Heck... now that the season's almost over and I need to seriously get back to work and spend more drive-time behind the wheel for work, I just may show up a bit more again. I need something to do with all that time on the road.
Seriously... you mentioned the Muddy Creek products or whatever their name is. I saw a new stick Todd Pringnitz is helping those guys come out with that I REALLY liked. It incorporated a rope sort of like you put on yours, but it slips into an ascender-type holder like they use in mountaineering, albeit it's sideways so the rope can wrap around the tree and then easily slip in that. One good quick tug locks it in. VERY slick little system.
Also, when the step is lowered, another on the opposite side comes down with it. Allows the person to always have the right step out and not have to flip the ones on the LW back and forth to figure their footing out correctly; also gives the user a level platform on which to stand to hang his stand at the top.
I'll most definitely be buying a set of those when they come out.
LOl...fire away guys...convince me to get rid of sticks and use steps.
LOL..I knew I would wake up Greg from hibernation
Heck... now that the season's almost over and I need to seriously get back to work and spend more drive-time behind the wheel for work, I just may show up a bit more again. I need something to do with all that time on the road. Seriously... you mentioned the Muddy Creek products or whatever their name is. I saw a new stick Todd Pringnitz is helping those guys come out with that I REALLY liked. It incorporated a rope sort of like you put on yours, but it slips into an ascender-type holder like they use in mountaineering, albeit it's sideways so the rope can wrap around the tree and then easily slip in that. One good quick tug locks it in. VERY slick little system.
Also, when the step is lowered, another on the opposite side comes down with it. Allows the person to always have the right step out and not have to flip the ones on the LW back and forth to figure their footing out correctly; also gives the user a level platform on which to stand to hang his stand at the top.
I'll most definitely be buying a set of those when they come out.
01-12-2009 | 08:18 PM
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RE: Screw in tree steps?
I agree on trying some new construction material.
I heard someone say that the patent runs out in a couple years on the LW platform and I later confirmed it with a friend at their booth. It'd be REAL interesting to see a space-age, lightweight material in a fully molded model like exists in the current LW platform... say something in the five or six pound range? [8D]
I'd pay several hundred dollars for one that I'd take in and out with me each time for run 'n gun sets...
I heard someone say that the patent runs out in a couple years on the LW platform and I later confirmed it with a friend at their booth. It'd be REAL interesting to see a space-age, lightweight material in a fully molded model like exists in the current LW platform... say something in the five or six pound range? [8D]
I'd pay several hundred dollars for one that I'd take in and out with me each time for run 'n gun sets...
