Please check your stands!!
#11
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The mountains of Southwest Virginia
Posts: 547
Thanks folks. I use a LifeLine brand( I think). It's just prucics(sp) cord on a rope. I strap in at the top of my tree. Most of my stands use straps but a few of my old ones have chains.
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
Can't believe you relied on the chain. I always add ratchet straps to any lock on. Chain can fall off a stand with additional straps and a person won't even know it. Better check that harness.
Never trust a stand out of the box.
Never trust a stand out of the box.
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
How many points does a person need attached to a tree? Attach to the tree when you get where you want to be. Use the stand as your attachment on the way up.
#17
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The mountains of Southwest Virginia
Posts: 547
#18
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 9
That's stinks. I personally don't wear one mainly because the stands me and all the other hunters use are either home made, or about 10 feet off the ground. I use a home made stand that helped my uncle out with, which is securely built in a large tree with three very thick branches that kind of form a Y about 20 feet up. The stand would easily hold 3 times my weight with the way the floor is built and I only like climbing up stands with a good ladder so in my opinion, its pretty safe as long as you know what your doing.
Or it could just be one of those things that rednecks just do. I wouldn't recomment it with any of my family, but usually I'm in a hurry to the stand and I've been to the same one so much I'm just used to it. Probably not the wisest thing to do, but its just me.
Or it could just be one of those things that rednecks just do. I wouldn't recomment it with any of my family, but usually I'm in a hurry to the stand and I've been to the same one so much I'm just used to it. Probably not the wisest thing to do, but its just me.