Tethrd One Sticks ..... take my money already

[Plebe]

I've only heard of this component sales approach recently, on saddlehunter. Nothing official. Can anybody confirm that this is really the case?

I don't have a source for titanium square stock either. So no answers, sorry not to be of more help.

To Ontariofarmer's point, given a large enough step/standoff that I liked I'd be willing to put it on aluminum or whatever. I like the standoff/platform design, but agree that the advertised 3.25" step depth isn't ideal for how I'd like to use 1 stick. But, the math it is pretty amazing for multi stick hunters and there is a lot to like.

Cool that they include the whole system in the weight spec, I hate when that's misrepresented.

 

[raisins]

Yup and yup. I am worried about them banging around and getting a dent in the tube...I guess I can see how that could possibly cause the tube to fold once weight is put on a step over time. Maybe not or maybe they have tested that already. Maybe there is no chance of even denting the tube....all questions at this point.

I don't know how much this matters, but supposedly titanium has excellent "memory". My eyeglasses frame is rimless and just a thin piece of titanium bent (instead of a hinge). They are Silhouette frames. I've worn these things for years and had them knocked off and fell asleep with them on, etc and the bend that makes the hinge is still exactly the same. And this wire is very thin like 1/16".

 

[enkriss]

I don't know how much this matters, but supposedly titanium has excellent "memory". My eyeglasses frame is rimless and just a thin piece of titanium bent (instead of a hinge). They are Silhouette frames. I've worn these things for years and had them knocked off and fell asleep with them on, etc and the bend that makes the hinge is still exactly the same. And this wire is very thin like 1/16".

Which means if they flex they should spring back to shape.

The fact that the wall has got to be pretty thin to be lighter than its aluminum counter part. Which tells be they may dent easily. Dents could lead to failure. I have seen some pretty badly dented titanium bike frames.

 

[MIbowhunter49]

Which means if they flex they should spring back to shape.

The fact that the wall has got to be pretty thin to be lighter than its aluminum counter part. Which tells be they may dent easily. Dents could lead to failure. I have seen some pretty badly dented titanium bike frames.

Lol sorry guys, but drawing parallels to bike frames is about as useless as comparing the glasses frames. This is painful.

 

[Chandler96]

Lol sorry guys, but drawing parallels to bike frames is about as useless as comparing the glasses frames. This is painful.

I mean not really its the same material granted not the same applications but its plausable to compare the two being they are the same material.

 

[d_rek]

I mean not really its the same material granted not the same applications but its plausable to compare the two being they are the same material.

Aluminum can both be bought at the grocery store on a roll for culinary use or it can be extruded and milled to make climbing sticks. Is it plausible to compare the two being that they're the same material?

 

[EricS]

@Ontariofarmer I would want to run as robust a stick as I could justify one sticking. My limited experience one sticking shows me that you can easily put a lot of lateral force on a stick that it’s not really designed for. I just see a lot of guys hooking a foot in an aider too high and wind up pushing away from the tree with their foot and pulling their upper body toward the tree using the upper step as a handle. The tethrd stick may handle that better than 1/8 square aluminum 1” tubing but time will tell.

 

[Chandler96]

Aluminum can both be bought at the grocery store on a roll for culinary use or it can be extruded and milled to make climbing sticks. Is it plausible to compare the two being that they're the same material?

I thought we were comparing titanium tubing on a bike to the titanium tubing that tethrd was using. I didnt know we would come up with a different comparison no one has said.

 

[Nutterbuster]

Here's what I want to know. That button...why is it better than the standard design that's been around for decades and duplicated everywhere? What does it do that others don't other than add the opportunity to have something patented?

 

[Chandler96]

Here's what I want to know. That button...why is it better than the standard design that's been around for decades and duplicated everywhere? What does it do that others don't other than add the opportunity to have something patented?

I agree. In my opinion it looks like it may take longer to wrap amsteel around that than simply putting a loop around a button. Not much obviously but if we are comparing the two.

 

[mattsteg]

Lol sorry guys, but drawing parallels to bike frames is about as useless as comparing the glasses frames. This is painful.

Not at all. Bike frames are a weight-conscious use of tubular titanium and aluminum in an environment that may take a few knocks. Like hunting.

Titanium is more bendy at a given strength than aluminum, by a fair bit. Aluminum, at the same stiffness, is lighter. These are gonna bend (which may help them grip in springlike fashion). I'd need to check the numbers again, but titanium's big strength benefit is when confined in space (like a bolt, but not like a thin tube). In tubing applications it's more about having more give than AL. And

 

[raisins]

Here's what I want to know. That button...why is it better than the standard design that's been around for decades and duplicated everywhere? What does it do that others don't other than add the opportunity to have something patented?

I like the looks of it. It seems like a rope cleat that would do away with having to do the standard rope mod wraps and overhands.

 

[kenn1320]

I'm intrigued but I'm not sure how the glued parts are going to hold up.

I know he don't come round these parts no more but I'm curious if OG Helium Slicer and Dicer turned Tethered pro staff @DaveT1963 sees these as an upgrade. Guy hunts he'll know if this is real hunting gear or mall crawler candy.

airplanes have lots of glued joints.

 

[Nutterbuster]

airplanes have lots of glued joints.

Reminds me of hearing Eberhart say he'd never use a buckle because it had rivets. Made me wonder if he'd ever been on a plane or riveted boat.

Glue doesn't bother me. If there isn't enough material for mechanical joining, chemical is a good call.

@kyler1945 and I talked about the sticks some yesterday. I don't have a specific area I'm looking at and thinking "that's where it's gonna fail." I just know that the closer you ride a line, the easier it is to swerve over it. And products seem to come out gosh-awful fast and have some birthing pains in this industry.

 

[elk yinzer]

Nothing like having your beta testers pay full price and working it out from there amirite.

 

[Weldabeast]

Anybody ever seen an airframe built of square tubing....or how about the square tube driveshafts....round tubing is more resistant to bending then square tubing with the same wall thickness

 

[Weldabeast]

The tubing itself that they are using also contributes to strength as well.... Is it ERW, CREW, HREW, or DOM tubing? DOM the strongest but most expensive

 

[Weldabeast]

My bet is ERW.... Now is that grade A or grade B tubing.... There are more types of tube than u can shake a stick at.... Most folks don't know or understand all these different things. They just see tubing... Not knowing anything about that tube it hard to make any assumptions

 

[Weldabeast]

The same goes for aluminum....just because it say 6061 that doesn't mean squat if u choose the wrong type of tube for that application....yeah it 6000 series aluminum but they all manufacture differently for different applications

 

[ShooterMike]

I wonder if it’s made in China too.


Semper Fi,
Mike
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