Out on a limb platform

[mattsteg]

And the predators little nubs would even let you push yourself back in the tree direction confidently without fear of slipping.

 

[flinginairos]

I haven't used a platform yet. Can someone tell me why the rounded off corners are not as good as the pointy corners? In fact the Predator platform goes out at the corners to make them MORE pronounced. What is the benefit?

This is why

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[denots]

This is why

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Show off

 

[swampsnyper]

I’ve welded some stuff for hunting. When I think of what I use to use, man, y’all would crucify me! Lol
But it didn’t break! And I killed my 1st bow kill from one. I’ll never forget hanging that stand. It was around 35ft up without a harness or linemans belt. By the time I finished, I laid on the ground completely spent. Didn’t know if I was gonna make it out of the woods. It’s still in the tree but I don’t own the property any more. It wasn’t worth trying to take down. Left it for a memory. Lol

 

[Treehopper2]

Not sure if this is a very very early prototype version or the finish product . Being painted it’s really hard to see weld quality. If the maker of this product is watching this thread please show us some non painted close up welds. If I’m wrong I apologize to the manufacturer in advance and I thank you for bring more saddle related gear to us.But those welds do not look good. Most of the welds look cold and have poor penetration.I do not care about the design if a guy likes it and it works for his budget that’s one thing but poor quality is another.
It’s one thing to go out to your garage and weld up a platform for yourself and trust your work it’s another ball game when you start selling them.
Again if I’m seeing these welds wrong I apologize but I wouldn’t trust the work I’m seeing in the pictures to recommend to a new guy asking about platforms.


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[FletchDeep]

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With a cam buckle strap, under 3 lbs, supposed price will be 139.

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[flinginairos]

Looks a lot better


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[mattsteg]

Really nice to see companies clearly acting on feedback.

 

[Squirrels]

Really nice to see companies clearly acting on feedback.

Yep. Good on them.


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[Coathanger15]

After seeing some of the responses here it makes you question why anyone would want to go through the hassle of trying to make a commercial product for saddle hunters. While yes there is an upside to picking apart designs to get the best end product, there are better ways to offer constructive criticism.

I think you all need to remember saddle hunters are a very very small portion of the hunting community and if you ever want that to change it might not be a terrible idea to be a little more receptive to companies starting to reach out with ideas.

Although I feel you make a valid point, I would offer this counter point.....If you are planning on designing and marketing a product aimed at a specific target group. Maybe spend ten minutes on reasearch and developent......without it you will get the responses we are seeing here....

 

[FletchDeep]

Although I feel you make a valid point, I would offer this counter point.....If you are planning on designing and marketing a product aimed at a specific target group. Maybe spend ten minutes on reasearch and developent......without it you will get the responses we are seeing here....

You act like there's a huge wealth of information and network of saddle hunters around every corner. This website is the only one with any detailed info and if someone doesn't know about it they aren't going to be able to find much for market research. Luckily it seems like the company is receptive to feedback and are going to fill a niche for a commercial lightweight platform at a reasonable price.

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[Coathanger15]

You act like there's a huge wealth of information and network of saddle hunters around every corner. This website is the only one with any detailed info and if someone doesn't know about it they aren't going to be able to find much for market research. Luckily it seems like the company is receptive to feedback and are going to fill a niche for a commercial lightweight platform at a reasonable price.

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Haha, type in saddle hunting on Google and tell me what you see. There is an easily available wealth of information if you know how to use a search engine. I'm glad they are receptive to feed back but I stand behind my statement.

 

[FletchDeep]

Haha, type in saddle hunting on Google and tell me what you see. There is an easily available wealth of information if you know how to use a search engine. I'm glad they are receptive to feed back but I stand behind my statement.

Apparently after looking here he came to the conclusion "Good Lord these people need help!"

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[mattsteg]

Haha, type in saddle hunting on Google and tell me what you see. There is an easily available wealth of information if you know how to use a search engine. I'm glad they are receptive to feed back but I stand behind my statement.

I was gonna say that...but then I remembered how confusing and overwhelming coming into this from 0 can be, and how much you need to get experience and figure things out for yourself.

Absent either reaching out and chatting with various people, many obvious choices who are prostate with tethrd, or spending the time and money to get into a saddle themselves, looking at some DIY stuff, figuring out how you can get something similar, and iterating is one of the better options overall.

 

[EricS]

The platform in the video is much better. People were a little critical of the first design but there is a big difference between a diy platform and something being marketed by a company. With the sudden growth of saddle hunting it would be easy for a company to just throw something to capitalize on the growth and make a quick buck on people that don’t know enough to say if it’s good or bad. They came up with a new design that made corrections based on some of the negative feedback so I would say they are trying to put together a quality product. I’m personally not a fan of expanded metal as it tends to catch on boots and make noise but it’s a decent price and may be a better option for those that need to add bottom layers in the tree. Time will tell.

 

[ImThere]

You act like there's a huge wealth of information and network of saddle hunters around every corner. This website is the only one with any detailed info and if someone doesn't know about it they aren't going to be able to find much for market research. Luckily it seems like the company is receptive to feedback and are going to fill a niche for a commercial lightweight platform at a reasonable price.

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AT had a wealth of knowledge before saddle hunter among several other sites a little research is good for the soul. You seem very new to the saddle hunting world
You are quite hung up on standing up for them. Prostaff? or vested interest in the company? your Idea? I asked before but you said I was wrong, I've never seen anyone stand up for a company like this with nothing to gain. Lets just call a spade a spade

 

[Boomah21]

I don’t think you have spent much time on here if that’s what you’re seeing/feeling. Tethrd got absolutely run through the ringer on here with their new products (platform and saddle).

Nothing is perfect for everyone...find what works for you and make it better haha

Also post not meant to bash ya just pointing out some observations I have made

 

[flinginairos]

Here's my issue with this platform, a design comes out and many of us had some negative things to say and they changed the design. That is awesome and glad they are listening, BUT how much testing has been done? Different size and types of trees? Weight rating? Wet/slick trees? How much leveling ability does it have? These are things people are going to ask and if I was buying one I would want to know. The Predator went through a lot of testing and none of us found an issue in our testing, but once the production models started rolling out there were some tweaks that needed made to make it perfect. This was after MONTHS of combined testing from a bunch of guys and it still needed tweaked. There will be lots of guys wanting a cheaper platform which is totally fine, but I think some real world testing should happen before orders are taken. Just my opinion.

 

[kyler1945]

I just wanted to point out a couple details...

It was said that it looks heavy, sounds like it’s not.

It was thought it was steel, it’s aluminum.

It was thought it couldn’t handle side loading or need a ratchet strap to get it tight. Looks like that’s not the case.

It was said the welds look poor - it’s 2019, no one is going to bring a product to market with poor welds. The holy grail lone wolf sticks had plastic grommets at the ata show, not the actual rubber they’ll use. Come on.

Expanded metal is ‘old technology’. I sold an old locon with expanded metal platform for double the price of currently available cast or tube stands. I’m not the only person who didn’t think it was ‘obsolete’.

I really hope that people start to broaden their perspective when considering and commenting on things like this in public. This really does feel like an echo chamber though...

 

[flinginairos]

You've been here less than a year. You came in as Tethrd was just getting started. Every single member of Tethrd have been here pretty much since the beginning of the forum. We are all DIY guys that have literally tried every piece of saddle gear that exists and the design of the saddle and platform are the combined ideas of everyone on this site. All these guys will go out of their way to help people and would give you the shirt off their back. You can think what you want I guess, but you really have the wrong idea I think.