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Post by deputydon on Sept 13, 2005 8:00:06 GMT -5
It seems that there is a push to go higher and higher w/ tree stands. How high do you guys like to put your tree stands?
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Post by bounce on Sept 13, 2005 9:03:00 GMT -5
My stand is as high as my pickup ...smiles... or a small ceader tree about 2/3 the way up a hill slope to sit in front, rear view mirror is nice as they offten come from behind then, yes I'm very much a well grounded hunter. as I was never made to be a tree hugger, but envy thouse that can!!
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 13, 2005 11:41:21 GMT -5
I flat out refuse to get up into a hang-on anymore. I do not like steping off the ladder into the stand because they always move, overadjust, and I always end up dangling 15 feet up in the air thinking not again...  lol I have a climber that I'm deathly afraid of too lol. I go about 12-16 feet in that. My brother on the other hand goes until the tree bends or he hits a problem spot. That leaves my 16ft ladders. These are by far my favorite because they are lightweight alluminum and one person can put it up themselves. So long as I have a tree to go that far, I'll put it up 16 feet. If there is no good tree, I'll put it up with a section missing - but I'd rather be higher than 12ft. |
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Post by klsm54 on Sept 13, 2005 13:03:48 GMT -5
I always stuck to using 12 ft of my 16 ladder stand. Thank goodness it wasn't higher the time I fell out.
When I was younger, more spry, and much healthier, I had some climbers, but 12 to 14 feet was about as far as I went. Depending on the terrain and cover, sometimes 10 feet seemed about right.
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Post by Jack on Sept 14, 2005 20:05:46 GMT -5
Well, I'm definitely in the chicken category. Having once fallen out of a tree stand, I figure I've used up my luck.
I'll go up in a commercial ladder type stand- usually10-12 feet, but a hang on? or a climber? no freakin way ! And, if the stand is home made- no chance, unless I built it, or helped build it and saw the work- and the stand is not more than a year or two old.
And, BTW, if the ladder stand doesn't look and feel secure, I get back on the ground. After all, it isn't life or death whether we get a deer that day or not.....but it MIGHT be life or death taking chances on a tree stand.
I've seen those TV shows where the guy is up 25 feet. Not me, Bro.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 14, 2005 23:09:41 GMT -5
I got in an old homemade stand once (one that had been repaired before by myself and others) knowing that I had to stand on the 2 x 4 studs on the platform. Well one morning I stood on the plywood and fell right through - luckily I grabbed on tight.
Same stand last year I was about 12 foot high and stepped on a rung and the rung fell off and I fell all the way to the ground lol.
But I am most comfortable in a homemade stand with a big platform that is solid.
The last time I was in a hang-on it took me 45 minutes to climb down once I was up there lol !!!!!!
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Post by Bill on Sept 15, 2005 15:28:49 GMT -5
;D ;D  Thats a funny one Red. I remember one time I got into a tree stand down on the creek between two tree's growing close together down on D-D's property before he owned it and it must of been 30 feet in the air. Once was enough. I was puckered up real tight by the time I made it down. Most of my stands have been between 10' and 15' from the ground. A couple of my favorite blinds were on my brother-in-laws property down in Kansas and was in the top of a tall old cedar with all the branches cut in a path up to the stand and you crawled a ladder to get to it. The other one was a 14" I-Beam from a bridge burried and cememted into the ground and held from vibrating in the wind by cabel's. On top of the beam was a 4X8' enclosed shed with shooting windows and a heater. The floor was 30' from the ground and it had steel bar's welded to the I beam for steps. That was a hoot to crawl up. Especially if the steps were Icy.  |
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Post by deputydon on Sept 15, 2005 17:45:40 GMT -5
Bill;
Part of that old stand is still thereLOL remember the time you about had a heat stoke building one on the creek bottom. It's nice now-a-days to have a little money to buy a stand w/.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 18, 2005 14:58:45 GMT -5
I used my climber this weekend on a hickory (the only decent tree) and had to keep going higher and higher to get a shooting lane. Well I'm like 25 feet up in the air and scared to death for 5 hours. As long as I sit, I'm fine. It's standing that's the hard part. It's turning that's impossible.
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Post by Jack on Sept 18, 2005 20:12:05 GMT -5
" Well I'm like 25 feet up in the air and scared to death for 5 hours."
I'd hafta ask myself, "isn't this supposed to be enjoyable?" I've been in stands (12 feet or so) that I didn't feel comfortable in, and I got out of 'em..... not worth it to me to sit there scared.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 18, 2005 22:59:21 GMT -5
Well I figure as long as sit I'll be fine. If a deer comes, hopefully it will be to the left were I don't have to turn much.
I tend to do something I know I shouldn't be doing and worry about the hard part when it comes...
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Post by Bubba on Sept 19, 2005 18:03:22 GMT -5
Terrafirma ... I don't climb any higher than my truck seat.... :-) ...
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Post by 340wby on Sept 20, 2005 17:52:16 GMT -5
well perhaps several years spent as a telephone co. lineman has some small effect but I prefer a 20-25 ft height
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Post by Bill on Sept 20, 2005 20:49:46 GMT -5
Maybe thats the thing to do, have the highline company put in a pole in the middle of my favorite shooting spot and use my old hooks to climb it and just hang from the harness.
NOT :-)
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lol
Thats a funny one Red.
