RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

Live ones with good cover near deer trails.

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

I like a good telephone-pole-thick black cherry tree for my climber. Those teeth really get a solid bite on the jagged bark of a wild cherry.

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

I like big old oaks or maples for my loc-on , I look for a tree that has alot of limbs to help break - up my outline.
As you can see in the picture , it does a good job.

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

I like the straight, tough ones with just enough branches to hide me but not to impede my movement. I don't like shaggy bark trees or pines at all.

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

I LOVE pine trees for some reason. I think its because when its raining/snowing you dont get as wet, for the scent, and also it hides you alot better. But i guess i'll go in whatever tree i can if i have a good spot i want to hunt.

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

i like a nice oak tree






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RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

I'm a pine tree guy also, if available ...... a2nd fav is cherry, for the same reason quik said

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

It doesn't have to be a Lock on, take a look at these tree stands, I have put them in pine trees many times, gotta have a Y:

http://www.the-gleasons.com/Y-board%20in%20Y%20tree.htm


they are safe, easy to make, no worry of being stolenand only cost about $7 each. Instructions are here:

http://www.the-gleasons.com/low_cost_tree_stands_for_hunting.htm

Chap Gleason Va

RE: Favorite types of trees for treestands?
 

i use to like palm trees untill i found out coral snakes like them too (the hard way). i mostly climb pine tree's. here in Florida, there aren't too many oaks or other trees to climb. all our oaks seem to be too wide (diameter), i can't recall ever seeing a skinny enough one for a climber that was straight. not saying there ain't any, just few and far between here. most common tree's here for climbing are the long and short needle pine's.