safety rope in weather
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Maine
Posts: 328
safety rope in weather
I am setting up a treestand this spring and want to put everything out including safety rope, so it will be undisturbed all summer and deer get used to it. But I am thinking bthat the weather may comprimise safety rope. What does everyone think? All opinions welcomed.
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croc2116
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croc2116
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
If Your going to be using it a lot I'd say leave it up.....If the rope is going to be exposed to bad weather all Summer and not used much I would take it down and put it up closer to Hunting Season!Im not sure on the life expectantcy of the safety ropes but weather can be hard on anything left outside,You can always spray it down with scent-killer closer to hunting season and be fine!
#4
If you decide to leave it out you should do a thorough inspection every time you use it.
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
What came first
Was it the need not to disturb the deer at all, or the need not to carry anything twice to the deer stand? Hunting is sure getting complicated. Probably going to have to retire my old method of carrying stuff into the woods that day, and just surprising the deer.
Those deer must have been slow witted.
Those deer must have been slow witted.
#10
My $0.02 is the same although I'm no expert but merely a dude that doesn't want to hit the ground if a fall occurs. Why chance anything to do with safety? BTW, A safety belt once saved my a$$. No fun to hear a "snap" then be hanging there, but the alternative was way worse.