Plan "C" for connecting Skeletor sticks as a single unit?

[Alaska at Heart]

Plan "A" is the Tethrd orange pins which I find somewhat challenging in the basement, let alone in the woods in the dark with cold hands after a hunt.

Plan "B" is the Genesis 3D clips, which are fairly pricey for a double set and reconfiguring the built-in Amsteel rope holding system. I like some of their products and watched their 17+ minute video on the clips....only to come away unsold. It did make me feel a bit better that the Genesis guy also noted issues with the orange pins.

So......anyone have a hack for Plan "C"?

I got a wild hair and ordered a pair of fishing rod holders from Amazon, thinking I could mod the foam inside the plastic housing. But they arrived yesterday and are WAY bigger than pictured......plus cheaply constructed and soon on the way back. I'm easy to please......light, quiet, simple to use and fairly inexpensive.

 

[BTaylor]

Plan C, sell all but one and start one stick climbing. Lighter, quieter, simple to use and way less expensive.

 

[Old Man Hunter]

If you are having issues separating the sticks due to the orange tips this is what I do. I separate the sticks by putting my thumbs on the lower stick while holding the next stick with my fingers and palms. Then I only have to push with my thumbs on the lower stick to separate them. I don’t engage the orange tabs by pushing them into the next stick as far as they will go just push them in far enough for the shorter tab to barely engage the next stick. If I push them together all the way they are hard to separate. Now this is coming from a 65 year young man with arthritis in his hands and every where else too. Hopefully this helps.

 

[Alaska at Heart]

Thanks for the reply. The issue isn't getting them apart, it is getting them easily back together with the plastic tabs/pins in the woods with cold hands in the dark at the end of a hunt. I have a set of original LW full length sticks that go together with a velcro strap in seconds. I would like a method remotely that simple for the Skeletors that doesn't entail nearly $50 in parts and then reconfiguring the design.

Maybe one sticking is in my future, but not the first year of the learning curve.

 

[LOSTnWoods]

Takes time keep practicing

 

[Dhanson]

I use ferrule wax made by loon outdoors on the orange tabs. It is cheap and works very good. The wax is hard but will soften from friction and heat from your finger. Once it softens the put some on the tabs.

 

[Alaska at Heart]

I figured out my "Plan C"......I sold the Skeletors and am moving on to something else.

 

[Maverick1]

Takes time keep practicing

They are climbing sticks. One should not have to practice in order to stack them properly and efficiently….