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- Thread starter redsquirrel
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I hope they don't work. I don't need ANOTHER item to buy!! Haha
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justsomedude
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In another thread I mentioned that I tried this out briefly yesterday and made a couple modifications last night.
As mentioned, the straps they came with were garbage and went right in the trash. I rigged up some temporary straps using the snap buckles I used for my spurs. Yesterday the buckles kept coming loose, so lesson number one was that these things need to be rock solid on your feet. The main hook portion slides in and out of the foot platform. I quickly found out that this doesn't work like it was designed.
So last nights mods: I had two straps with cam buckles on them that I put on. I am also running the strap behind my heel and over my foot. I temporarily wrapped the connection from the foot platform to the hook portion so it can't move. This may make climbing very small trees tough, but I don't think it will work well otherwise. I found that you could have the hook angled up pretty sharply and it still worked well.
I snuck out at my lunch break to try them out and WOW. I climbed to at least 15 feet in a minute, no problems at all and I was taking my time to be safe. I like to try things out thoroughly before I make statements like this, but I think these are a gamechanger for places where you can't use spurs or screw in steps.
They aren't available on amazing anymore though!!! Hopefully they restock!
Downsides:
They are noisy. I quieted them down alot. I think I can quiet them down pretty much completely so that is the next project.
The build quality could be better. The straps were junk which doesn't make me feel great about the rest of the process. The bolts and nuts on them are coming loose so I am probably just going to replace them with some grade 8's if I have the right sizes around. The one thing I can't do anything about is the quality of the welds. It looks ok, they feel very solid, but you just don't know. I will most likely use the new style lineman's belt from the other thread that we're discussing for extra safety with this.
I would easily pay double the price these are going for for a better built, more thought out and solid design.
I think going around limbs will be pretty easy also. I will try to do a video over the weekend so you guys can see them in action. I also had my kestrel on while climbing
Now someone find where you can still buy them online so I can pick up a backup pair.
As mentioned, the straps they came with were garbage and went right in the trash. I rigged up some temporary straps using the snap buckles I used for my spurs. Yesterday the buckles kept coming loose, so lesson number one was that these things need to be rock solid on your feet. The main hook portion slides in and out of the foot platform. I quickly found out that this doesn't work like it was designed.
So last nights mods: I had two straps with cam buckles on them that I put on. I am also running the strap behind my heel and over my foot. I temporarily wrapped the connection from the foot platform to the hook portion so it can't move. This may make climbing very small trees tough, but I don't think it will work well otherwise. I found that you could have the hook angled up pretty sharply and it still worked well.
I snuck out at my lunch break to try them out and WOW. I climbed to at least 15 feet in a minute, no problems at all and I was taking my time to be safe. I like to try things out thoroughly before I make statements like this, but I think these are a gamechanger for places where you can't use spurs or screw in steps.
They aren't available on amazing anymore though!!! Hopefully they restock!
Downsides:
They are noisy. I quieted them down alot. I think I can quiet them down pretty much completely so that is the next project.
The build quality could be better. The straps were junk which doesn't make me feel great about the rest of the process. The bolts and nuts on them are coming loose so I am probably just going to replace them with some grade 8's if I have the right sizes around. The one thing I can't do anything about is the quality of the welds. It looks ok, they feel very solid, but you just don't know. I will most likely use the new style lineman's belt from the other thread that we're discussing for extra safety with this.
I would easily pay double the price these are going for for a better built, more thought out and solid design.
I think going around limbs will be pretty easy also. I will try to do a video over the weekend so you guys can see them in action. I also had my kestrel on while climbing
Now someone find where you can still buy them online so I can pick up a backup pair.
One other downside I forgot to mention: you will be limited in tree diameter. I'd have to look into it more but I'm thinking somewhere around 18 inches.
justsomedude
Well-Known Member
Is climbing down as easy as climbing up?
Yea, it wasn't bad at all. I foresee the hardest thing about climbing down being putting them on in the tree just like it is with spurs.
I'm gonna see if I can sneak out to the woods again after I get home to try them out again.
Bowhunter41002
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How will u transfer from those to ur platform/ameristeps?
I am thinking of stepping above it, taking it off and stepping down on to it. We'll see how it works.
Update: Climbed two trees after work. It went very well. I was at least 20 foot up on the second tree. I think I want to try to find a way to adjust the width of them rather than making them fixed at there largest opening. The second tree it was fine, but on the first tree as I got higher and the tree got smaller I was hesitant to go any higher because I was worried I might slip out.
Other than that climbing was a breeze though.
Other than that climbing was a breeze though.
regardless how thin the tree got and how offset the climbers got would it be possible to slip out with weight on them though? maybe your feet come out the strap/step
Try hopping a little on some small trees low. Wear that lineman belt (and maybe a cup)
Try hopping a little on some small trees low. Wear that lineman belt (and maybe a cup)
Seals72
Active Member
Interesting for sure!
Dopo87
Active Member
They stick to tree pretty good?
I rigged it up so my foot is not coming out of the strap so I'm not worried on that.
It is always possible they could slip out with weight on them just like a climber but they were very secure when you stepped down so I'm not concerned with that either.
What I meant with the small diameter tree thought was that the climber can actually start to get so vertical that I'm worried the teeth wouldn't even contact the tree.
Very good.
ImThere
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How do they adjust for smaller trees? It seems like the back side bar should slide towards your feet and be able to pin it like a climber cable?
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It does slide, but it doesn't pin like a climber. That is the problem. I'm thinking of finding some of those rubber gaskets that someone used for something else and putting one on each side to keep it from sliding on its own. I think someone said they got them in the plumbing section at home depot? Does anyone remember?
ImThere
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You should be able to get O rings just about anywhere. Probably automotive store.
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