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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#2965375
11/24/19 11:54 AM
11/24/19 11:54 AM
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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 8,670 NW Alabama
R_H_Clark
Leupold Pro Staff
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NW Alabama
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Glad to hear he’s fine. Folks, attach yer damn harness to the tree before your feet get off the ground and don’t detach it til your feet are back on the ground.
Dr. B Harness won't help if you fall with your feet caught in your foot climber. It happened to me a few years ago too. I always cut off any nylon feet straps and replace with a tarp strap which will allow you to lift the platform but still won't break your legs or trap you upside down if you do fall. Man that is scary! How in the world does that happen? I'm trying to figure out how you fall backwards with your feet in the straps if you are tethered to the tree with less than 2 feet of slack in the lifeline and moving the strap above your head as you climb up. Glad you're ok as well! Dr. B Doc I was coming down and after 20 years in stands I had more slack in my tether than I should have. It was just barely tight and slid down low as it could go toward the foot platform. It was dark and vines mush have pulled my pin because I was left holding my seat platform in my hands falling backwards. I had been facing the tree coming down. My head was only 8 feet off the ground but I couldn't get back up or get loose from the straps that I thought had broken my legs initially. My safety line was on the tree and I had on a HSS vest but the strap was so low down against the foot climber that I couldn't get any leverage to pull myself back up. I'm just telling this again so everyone knows to get rid of those nylon foot straps.
Last edited by R_H_Clark; 11/24/19 11:57 AM.
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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: David Ellis]
#2965378
11/24/19 12:05 PM
11/24/19 12:05 PM
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257wbymag
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Boo Boo Head
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I’m not gonna lie I’m too lazy to go all climbing up a tree after a deer. That’s too much work
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: 257wbymag]
#2965414
11/24/19 01:18 PM
11/24/19 01:18 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man
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Posts: 30,910
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I’m not gonna lie I’m too lazy to go all climbing up a tree after a deer. That’s too much work Especially when you can legally hunt from a truck seat, over a pile of corn. Geez, I can sit in the truck, in my underwear, drinking whiskey and playing on aldeer. Why the hell would anybody climb a frigging tree??
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: David Ellis]
#2965585
11/24/19 06:50 PM
11/24/19 06:50 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,520 Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Guntersville
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Ladders, ground blinds and Millennium tree seat for me. I can’t get hurt. I got to work.
Last edited by AC870; 11/24/19 06:51 PM.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: R_H_Clark]
#2965600
11/24/19 07:14 PM
11/24/19 07:14 PM
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Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,917 West Alabama
Ant67
10 point
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Same thing happened to me in an Ole Man about 10 years ago. I posted the story here but at the time thought somebody had sabatoged my stand as I was hunting Illinois public land. Come to find out it was a stand defect with the pins. I started hallucinating about my buddies 12 year old son finding me purple hanging upside down and said “oh hell no”. Scariest thing that ever happens to me. I eventually determined to break my ankle but as I tried to do this the plastic buckle holding the straps on my feet broke clean in half. I don’t remember falling just next thing I knew I was sitting on the ground. It was a God moment for sure. So glad your buddy is ok. Btw I had a harness but wasn’t attached. Never again.
Last edited by Ant67; 11/24/19 07:32 PM.
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Re: Tree stand accident
[Re: David Ellis]
#2965802
11/24/19 10:09 PM
11/24/19 10:09 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 17,022 lat 34.09 long -86.13
metalmuncher
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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For those of you using pins in your stands, throw them away and go buy you some Master locks with the longer than usual shackle and keyed alike. Replace the pins with master locks. Not real cheap, but I assure you that they will not slip out once locked. It's also a great security system if you are hunting public land or if you have a poacher problem. Leave it on the tree and forget about it until you're ready to use it again. Just don't leave it in the rain and then let it freeze.
If you simply must use pins, then at always install them from the inside out. That way, even if the metal wire loop comes off, you will be pushing it against the stop (with your feet, legs, butt, etc.) instead of pushing the pins out of the holes.
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