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I wouldn't climb or hunt those trees because they are too angled and being that skinny doesn't help. I would suggest a ground setup, as already mentioned.
If I was forced to do it, I would climb the high side and set the platform on the high side and adjust the angle to make it as flat as possible, but you might run out of adjustment. I'd probably grab my Lone Wolf Assault hang on and try it on the high side with the adjustment bottomed out. If on a saddle platform, I'd pick a larger one and stand the whole time.
Whether using a saddle or a fall arrest harness, this is a somewhat dangerous climb and set up. To climb this, using your tether as well (with minimal slack) would be absolutely necessary. A danger here is swinging to the low side. This happens way more easily than you'd think.
If you swing to the low side with just a lineman's lanyard, then you might fall as the mechanism by which it might lever you into the tree is disrupted.
However, and this is why that tree would be a hard "no" for me, if the tree is too angled (like those) then if you swing to the low side with your safety tether then you will be dangling away from the tree and you might not be able to reach the tree well enough to self-rescue. This is very real and athleticism doesn't matter here if you can't get ahold of the tree. If you dangle from a saddle (but especially a fall arrest harness), then you risk suspension trauma and possibly serious injury.
-R
If I was forced to do it, I would climb the high side and set the platform on the high side and adjust the angle to make it as flat as possible, but you might run out of adjustment. I'd probably grab my Lone Wolf Assault hang on and try it on the high side with the adjustment bottomed out. If on a saddle platform, I'd pick a larger one and stand the whole time.
Whether using a saddle or a fall arrest harness, this is a somewhat dangerous climb and set up. To climb this, using your tether as well (with minimal slack) would be absolutely necessary. A danger here is swinging to the low side. This happens way more easily than you'd think.
If you swing to the low side with just a lineman's lanyard, then you might fall as the mechanism by which it might lever you into the tree is disrupted.
However, and this is why that tree would be a hard "no" for me, if the tree is too angled (like those) then if you swing to the low side with your safety tether then you will be dangling away from the tree and you might not be able to reach the tree well enough to self-rescue. This is very real and athleticism doesn't matter here if you can't get ahold of the tree. If you dangle from a saddle (but especially a fall arrest harness), then you risk suspension trauma and possibly serious injury.
-R
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