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Official admit you fell of your stick thread

But.but...but...its à preset ladder stick....dont worry ...... if i get hurt.... blame the leg straps...not the stick or the idiot useing it....o h ...its redundancy. Or lack of cobra buckles.... yeah thats it...somethings not rated...tetherd's from china.Rainer
 
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I dont consider sitting in the same spot every day mobile hunting whether its in a pack seat ,on a tree stand or on a platform with a stick.....thats just not mobile.i mobile hunted miles of the coast range and the cascade range....then basicly just shot a deer sitting in my yard....i know in other states thats hunting because you are limited in forest access.but out here my bigest deer dont even count since it isnt fair chase..best friend says...oh..got it at your place......thats cool.
 
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Shhhhh.my Reputation already sucks......uh.....uh....do as i say not as i do?.....uh....uh....i did it without leg straps too...dont make it smart...then i climbed up with no gear to take a pic.
 
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Only had it happen once, but it was enough to scare me. I left my gear in the tree overnight and went back next morning. Was about to go from my 2nd to third stick, weather was rainy and extremely windy. A sudden gust caught me and it was just enough to make me shift my weight, which since everything was wet my feet slipped and I fell off the stick. To that point if I was going back up sticks I'd already set up I didn't usually use my lineman's rope, I would just go up and reconnect to my tether at my platform, but that morning for some reason I did. Thank God because had I not I would've fallen 10 feet in the middle of nowhere with very little cell reception, and my son was born just a month or so later.

I will never, ever now go up and down a tree without at least one method of being tied in. All it takes is one slip. You never know when you'll NEED to be tethered in, but when you do you better be because you don't get a redo.
 
Just want people to be safer than you do i guess ..i want people to be so safe you practicaly want them to get hurt compared to me...so virtue signaled...Imagine wanting to push a pencil into your ear ever so slowly until it stops every time you hear people talk about masochists sticks.
 
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Never fallen off of or because of a stick, buuuuuuut…….. I did go scrambling up a stick ladder one morning and was on the second or third (or both) stick when I realized I had made a grave error. I reached out with one hand, grabbed the tree and pulled myself back in to the tree.

After easing myself back down to the ground I noticed that all my nylon ropes had become a victim of the prescribed fire done in that block of woods back in the spring
 
I will give you my close call.now i have broken many sticks when climbing branches but having three points of contact nothing ever happened..normaly when doing so at the top i would hand my carabiner on my tether around the tree with my right hand to my left hand tight together then let out just enough slack with my right hand to conect my carabiner to my tether with my left hand.how ever 1 time as i was looking around to make sure i wasnt spooking game i threw the tether around the tree with about three feet of slack and found my self hanging uncomforitably far back with just my hands all puckered up.now i make sure my hands touch behind the tree every time
 
tailgunner said:
I will give you my close call.now i have broken many sticks when climbing branches but having three points of contact nothing ever happened..normaly when doing so at the top i would hand my carabiner on my tether around the tree with my right hand to my left hand tight together then let out just enough slack with my right hand to conect my carabiner to my tether with my left hand.how ever 1 time as i was looking around to make sure i wasnt spooking game i threw the tether around the tree with about three feet of slack and found my self hanging uncomforitably far back with just my hands all puckered up.now i make sure my hands touch behind the tree every time
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For the record I do the same thing when one sticking. Stepping up in the aider my left hand is around behind the tree. Advancing the tether I'm two feet solid on the bottom steps of my stick with my left hand still around behind the tree. I hold the link in my right hand and work some slack into the girth hitch pulling the rope taut against the tree above my left hand. I can then advance it moving the link back ad forth while pushing up on the rope with the top of my left hand as I slide it up the tree. My hand never goes between teh tree and the rope, just slides up under it. Once the rope is above shoulder height I don't need my left hand for tether advance anymore and it just hugs the tree.
 
bowhunthard88 said:
I've never had a good stick kick out and I've never had a stick move (other than settling a minimal amount) while I'm on it. I HAVE had crappy sticks (won't mention the brand) shift, move, or kick out AFTER they were un-weighted during the transition to the next step. I've never had an issue with my EWO Feathersticks, and I run them with the sewn two-step aiders. On the other hand, I've personally never had a safety issue with aiders either...
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I did with the aider on my bottom stick. Foot got caught as i stepped down with my other leg. And down I went. Landed on my back on my platform that was hanging off the back of my saddle. I was lucky the platform didn't damage my back. No aiders for me after that. Ever.
 
All of these are reasons I’m moving to 2TC. I’ll risk eating bark; I’m not gonna risk dying or serious injury.

I always, always wondered, “so what if my cam fails and I’m left with this linesman and 4’ of slack on a Madrock?” When I got over 10’ one sticking. Always freaked me out. Never had an accident but…not waiting to find out
 
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All of these are reasons I’m moving to 2TC. I’ll risk eating bark; I’m not gonna risk dying or serious injury.

I always, always wondered, “so what if my cam fails and I’m left with this linesman and 4’ of slack on a Madrock?” When I got over 10’ one sticking. Always freaked me out. Never had an accident but…not waiting to find out
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It's funny what freaks us out. I am perfectly fine sitting in a stand and standing with my back to the tree but turning around to face the tree is nerve racking. Talking about in a regular stand with a treestand harness. With my saddle on I am much more comfortable with that transition because I am controlling slack and under tension.
 
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