If you don't mind me asking do you have one of these? And what is your concern with all the teeth touching? The design as is works flawless. The Gen 2 is just a heavier built version. I don't have any problems with how the teeth connect the tree or it camming over tight so I don't know why they would change that aspect of the design.
Curious if they fixed the noise issues with the platform. Most say it doesn't cost much to fix, so my question is why haven't they fixed it prior to shipping them to customers. This appears to be a known issue with the Gen 1 stands.[/QUOTE]
I think Ernie said the platforms were coming pre-waxed now.
The way it’s designed the top standoff slides up and down on the tree when setting the platform. You don’t want it to grip the tree like the bottom teeth. It needs to slide down when calming the platform down. That’s what gets the strap super tight. If it matches the bottom teeth there would be more breakages and it wouldn’t perform as well. It’s one of the key parts that make that design work well. You could probably cut the outside tooth on each side off completely and save a little weight without hurting the performance at all. Once it’s cammed over the top standoff doesn’t do anything but stop the top of the post from moving toward the tree and the strap being loose. I weigh I’ve had several trees where the top standoff wasn’t even touching when my weight was on it. Didn’t budge just belt a little more springy than normal. I weigh 290 and have yet to break the gen 1 version.
I only asked if you had one because I wanted to know if maybe you were having problems with yours. I wasn't trying to be a ****. As far as I can see it operates flawlessly the way it is no need to fix something that's not broke.
I haven't had a chance to put it in the tree. It's been raining and nasty here and I've been fighting trying to get a little bit of work done around it so hopefully this weekend. I'll bring it to the camp with me and play with it some. Just from the looks of it though it would take a pretty big fella to make it Flex any. I have a feeling it would start to pull away from the tree before it would begin to flex, but I never found there to be much of a flex in the Gen 1 maybe a little bit if I'm way out on a corner with no weight in the saddle. I'm 200 pounds fyi, I don't know how much that matters.
I'm sorry Ricky I didn't answer the second part of your question. I know the pictures probably don't do it justice but there's definitely a lot more material in the platform. I believe it will be exponentially stronger than the last one even though it does not appear to be that much heavier built(weight wise).
I just used the gen 2 today after snapping my 1rst gen. It almost felt like a different platform. Once l locked it into tree this thing was rock SOLID. Had no creaking or sounds and could not feel any flex like the gen 1 had.
