View Poll Results: Do you use a safety harness with your tree stand?
Always use a harness
34
65.38%
Ocassionally use a harness
8
15.38%
Never use a harness
10
19.23%
Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll
Do you use your safety harness?
#13
I voted occasionally wear a harness but there needs to be an option for usually wears a harness.
I have a couple ladder stands that are 8 feet high that I hunt from and don't wear a harness. When I am in a lock on type stand or my climber I have a safety harness on.
Recently I had a scare with my Summit harness that made me wonder how I would get down in the event of a total tree stand failure.
I decided to try out the Rescue One CDS II(controlled descent system) safety harness. This harness allows you to descend from the tree if for some reason you can't get back into your stand. To this point all I have done is tried the harness on. Little bulky but not too bad and about the same weight as the HSS vest harnesses. I plan to experiment some with this harness in the coming weeks.
I have a couple ladder stands that are 8 feet high that I hunt from and don't wear a harness. When I am in a lock on type stand or my climber I have a safety harness on.
Recently I had a scare with my Summit harness that made me wonder how I would get down in the event of a total tree stand failure.
I decided to try out the Rescue One CDS II(controlled descent system) safety harness. This harness allows you to descend from the tree if for some reason you can't get back into your stand. To this point all I have done is tried the harness on. Little bulky but not too bad and about the same weight as the HSS vest harnesses. I plan to experiment some with this harness in the coming weeks.
#16
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bismarck, North Dakota
Posts: 72
I'm new to archery hunting and treestands. I ordered a new HSS vest which I will be wearing as soon as I leave the ground. I'd rather be on the safe side, then be in a wheelchair being fed out of a tube for the rest of my life. Or end up getting killed.
#17
When you get your vest, make sure you adjust it right, some of the straps are inside the material and hard to get at to adjust..good luck
#20
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY: NYC to Watertown
Posts: 897
usually its seasoned hunters who have climbed that stand 1000 times,