Took them out to my proving grounds today and stood on them for a bit. I was actually thinking the the grooves (runners) where I split the sticks down the middle would help grip the tree.
Although they do, what I found is that they start to chew the bark up pretty good when you work them back and forth and once they do they don’t seem to recover from side pressure as well.
So now I’m thinking I’m gonna grind the runners off and make them flat like the squirrel steps. This will make them a little lighter too.
Another note is that the squirrel steps have more of an angle up when set in the tree whereas these are almost 90 degrees. I suppose
@DanO knows a little something about what he’s doing lol.
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