Locking your ladder treestand?
 

Just bought a Big Game Treestand (Partner Plus) model and I wanted to lock it to the tree. I just got back from Lowes and bought one of those master lock python cable locks. Should that cable and lock do the trick? Its braided steel with a cut resistant cover and the lock seems pretty darn sturdy. I plan on leaving this stand there all season due to its heaviness. What do you guys use to lock your ladder stands?

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I got just a bike lock kind of the same thing. there aren't a lot of people in the area I hunt it just makes it harder for someone to just take and go.

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I like a big hardened steel chain that I can get under the ladder and loop around the tree. Make it as hard as you can to get a set of bolt cutters on it, especially the bigger ones needed to cut hardened chain.

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I anchor my stand to the tree. I have a big seat on my lader and i fabricated a plate and a lag bolt so i lock the stand but then ancho with a lag.

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I agree with Sangster ...

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yes a big chain with a good padlock will do the trick, try and make sure its tight against the tree and stand so that bolt cutters cant get around it to cut it. We use big heavy chains on all our stands we leave out on the property. If its a lock on stand, we put in the old sky hooks and remove the last 4 or 5 from the bottom so no one can climb up the tree to work on the stand. And if we are using the Lone Wolf Sticks, we just take the last two down as well.

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I used a hardened steel chain and abeefy Master lock. There have been stands stolen from our club before. Make sure you run it through a welded part of the frame. The best chain in the world won't help if the theif can just unbolt a few pieces of the stand to get it off.

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I don't lock stands anymore.

But when I did, I would just use whatever chain/lock was available. You could have a stand locked with Aircraft Carrier anchor line, if somebody wants it bad enough, they're going to get it. The lock just keeps the honest( or semi-honest:D) people honest.

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I generally use straps, not locks. My experience - if they want it,but can'ttake it, they destroy it.
Alway wondered who "they" are?

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I agree with vandeer. IF they want it, they will take it regardless of what lock is used - or destroy it. Theives have an odd mentality (if I can't have it, no one can).

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It'd take a good bit of balls to take down and haul out any stand...let alone aladder stand. I lock mine too, but they all said it right. If someone wants it bad enough, they'll get it....even if it means downingthe tree.

Could only imagine walking up on the person pulling that number while you were walking in. Ugly would be putting it lightly.

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I use a small cable and a padlock or combination lock. If "they" did take it I could probably find "them".
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they would end up in the bottom of a silo with 10 foot of "permanent" sileage over em. I'm just going to use the steel braided cable I got from lowes and lock it up there then take the bottom portion of the stand after the season.

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I have had thieves cut through every lock I have tried. If a thief wants your stand badly enough, he is going to get it.

ladder treestand lock the only one that i found works
 

I have tried many ladder locking systems, only one i found truly works. it is finally a way to keep others out. it seems new this fall. I have 5 on all my ladder stands. It took about 15 minutes for first one, then only 5 minutes for the rest. It is by vitalzone hunting products. http://www.vitalzonehunting.com/ladd...-lock-brackets.

My experience, as a law enforcement officer, a lock is just to keep an honest man honest.

Just remember that no matter how tough of a chain and lock you put on it, the stand is held together by nuts and bolts so it could just be taken apart by a thief who wants it. That's why I just use a climber.

i have tried it all. trust me when i say this. it does not matter what you use because if someone wants it they will find a way to get it. i have stopped locking anything. not even my cameras because it is just a waste of time and money. locks are only for honest people. so if an honest person finds my stuff they aint gonna take it wether it is locked or not and if someone finds it and wants it they are going to take it wether it is locked or not. best you can hope for is they get discouraged or you catch them. best of luck

Only the best hardened cahins are a problem for large bolt cutters. However, not such a problem for a for battery powered grinder with a diamond cutter blade. If they wnat the stand ... its gone !! Well, maybe Sangster has a solution ... however not sure I can find a lock to fit ! Even if I could, I doubt I would be man enough to lift the key !?!

Locks, chains, and cables are just deterrents. No thief wants to have to carry a bolt cutter around the woods, particularly on public land where there might be witnesses-- it would certainly look suspicious. I use those coated steel cables from Lowe's (have to buy the lock separate) because they are long enough to fit through the seating area and one or two of the ladder sections, just to make things difficult.

you can cut steel cable with a good pair of wire cutters.

Doesn't this website have Moderators or care about all the SPAM like these four in a row that are making the site almost impossible to read any more? I keep sending SPAM messages on all this crappola and nothing is done. There are a bunch of threads right now where these Spamers have made 3 or more posts in a row and if it doesn't stop soon I will abondon this website because it's getting impossible to follow along on many threads because of it. Am I the only one who feels this way? Every one of this guy's 63 posts is the same BS that nobody can read and then there are the others that are in English and are pure BS Spam!

I suppose you could. I was specifically talking about this:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_73467-352-72...ble&facetInfo=
Like I said, it's about deterrence, not making it bullet proof. Anything can be cut with the right equipment. Cost is also a factor. If you are setting up several stands, you need something cost effective.

I have literally put up thousands of stands. There was a time when we used to lock the majority of them. To no avail, because as has been stated over and over, it only keeps the semi-honest, honest. I have had huge platform ladders stolen, and Box blinds, that require 2 people to carry them out. Lock-ons, with the stick removed, (they simply bring their own stick) If they want it they will get it.

If you know it may be a problem area, don't leave them out year round. Put them up a short time before you will be hunting them. I know it can be a pain in the rear, but one thing you could do, is come in early in the summer. Where you know you want a stand, set one up, do all the trim work you need to do, then remove it until just before season. That way all your work is done, as far as any heavy trimming you may need to do. A stand can be set-up quickly and quietly if you know what you are doing.

Topgun,,, I answered this in your other thread.. You have no idea how much time we spend deleting and banning these spammers. The site owners have stated they are going to implement a program to help stop this. We can only wait. I have been on this site for 13 years, and delt with many issues over the years. I don't think I'm running off because a bunch of spammers are trying to get their licks in. I am sorry it bothers you and the other users so much. I really do understand. Think, if you will, how much more I hate it. When I come here wanting to post and help someone in search of advice, and all I have time for is dealing with these bums. :)))

Thank you!!!

I have the very same stand...A Big Game Partner Plus and I just bought a nice heavy duty chain and put it thru the frame and locked it...and its still there!I also use the rubber coated spring/retrackable type steel wired bicycle cables and they work great also.



Yeah...I know if someone wants to steal something they will try their best and get it in the end....but by God their going to have to work for it and its not going to be easy if I can help it? LOL

I lock all my trail camera's too....sure its just a silly old plastic latch with a steel lock thru it...but again I'm not going to make life easy for them!

Battery powered reiprocating saws with the right blades make quick work out of everything that has been listed here. We use it to take down stands that have been left on WMA's weeks and months after the deer hunting seasons are over when we run across them. Best just to take them with you.