I had someone ask on my previous thread my climbing method and I figured I'd make another post and put up some pictures because i don't think much anybody is doing it the way i am.
This is a simple design just a 2x2 board with two side steps and eye bolts that I use to ratchet strap it to the tree when i get to hunting height. I climb with it by using some 8mm rope with a loop on one end that I attached to the platform with a marlin spike hitch. The other end i timber hitch to whatever tree i climb (which only takes me a second to tie on) and typically I'll open up my last two loops on my timber hitch and run my tag end through so it doesn't unravel on me as I climb. After I attach to the tree I'll step inside the loop and use it to lift myself up the tree, I'll then leg lock the tree with my free leg and slide my top tether up. Then I'll put all my weight in the saddle and hang while i move the bottom tether/platform up and repeat the process.
The last picture is the one i made and hunted from the last couple years. Its been through a lot and a split in the wood made me decide it was time to retire it and make a new one I just put it up for reference. The only difference in design is instead of drilling holes and weakening the wood to run rope through it. I tied it on with a marlin spike hitch. When I put this together I wanted it to be cheap, light weight, bare minimum to get me off the ground hunting. I can't remember the fellow's name i had seen on YouTube use a similar set up to climb only he used just a 2x2 with two holes drilled in and a rope passing thru it. I liked this idea and "improved" on it by adding the outer side steps and the eye bolts to stabilize it to the tree.
This is a simple design just a 2x2 board with two side steps and eye bolts that I use to ratchet strap it to the tree when i get to hunting height. I climb with it by using some 8mm rope with a loop on one end that I attached to the platform with a marlin spike hitch. The other end i timber hitch to whatever tree i climb (which only takes me a second to tie on) and typically I'll open up my last two loops on my timber hitch and run my tag end through so it doesn't unravel on me as I climb. After I attach to the tree I'll step inside the loop and use it to lift myself up the tree, I'll then leg lock the tree with my free leg and slide my top tether up. Then I'll put all my weight in the saddle and hang while i move the bottom tether/platform up and repeat the process.
The last picture is the one i made and hunted from the last couple years. Its been through a lot and a split in the wood made me decide it was time to retire it and make a new one I just put it up for reference. The only difference in design is instead of drilling holes and weakening the wood to run rope through it. I tied it on with a marlin spike hitch. When I put this together I wanted it to be cheap, light weight, bare minimum to get me off the ground hunting. I can't remember the fellow's name i had seen on YouTube use a similar set up to climb only he used just a 2x2 with two holes drilled in and a rope passing thru it. I liked this idea and "improved" on it by adding the outer side steps and the eye bolts to stabilize it to the tree.
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