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Platform adjustments: Poll and thoughts

How often would you adjust your platform if you could do so with only your foot?

  • Only during setup

    Votes: 17 85.0%

  • 3 times: at setup, before final hunting pose, then prior to takedown.

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Multiple times during the hunt to switch up pressure points.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other answer explained below...

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • Total voters
    20
Samcirrus

Samcirrus

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Those with a LWCG platform know it is currently the most easily adjustable platform. But what if you could have one that adjusts from 45° to 90°(flat) with minimal movements! Would such a platform(with other attractive features) be a "game changer" or an unnecessary function no one would use?
Thanks for your participation!
 
I might use it if I had it, the adjustability, but I can't think of a time I adjusted the angle of my platform after the initial set up. Definitely have moved it up/ down or around the tree though
 
The only times I have felt necessary to adjust after initial setup is when getting extremely uncomfortable due to a leaning tree... this would be after multiple hours. Sometimes you just have to embrace the suck on those severe leaners.
 
Never. I sit in a hybrid. Which means I have significantly less discomfort overall, and less weight on my feet/ankles/knees. Which means there really isn’t a platform or step angle that isn’t comfortable.

The answer for me doesn’t lie within what to do with my feet to make me comfortable. It’s get comfortable, and then what I do with my feet really doesn’t matter.
 
For me once the platform is set, I rarely mess with it. There have been times when I realize to is not level or the tree I am in leans to one side and after a while the knee that takes that pressure gets annoying so I have climbed back down to top step to adjust. If we are talking about the angle I never adjust that. I use the wingman from time to time and I find that angled front is a nice touch.
 
Once when i set up, I use the seeker so i have free angle adjustments just by stepping onto the angle or flat
 
Thanks for your great points and opinions so far! Might I add another caveat of
"How much adjustability would be good to counteract leaning/oddly shaped trees?" Even if you only set it once.
I will say that I agree that having an angled edge is a huge benefit as the more surface your feet can rest on the more comfortable it'll be.
 
Also all current platforms, including the LWHC ambush and fix have a 15° max degree of angle adjustment. Would more be something attractive, needed, or just a feature that would go unused?
 
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