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I don't one stick. I use this method when using 3 to 5 sticks with a carry as you go aider to get from 18 to 30 feet.
The daisy chain is being wrapped around the pole to the left, so the free, tag end addressed the stick from the right. In the first photo, I have wrapped the tag end under and behind the amsteel coming off the button and pulled upward. This is the step where you pull very tightly and to the right also, but I was one handing things and wasn't crazy about using a telephone pole. Take the tag end sticking up in the first pic and pull it behind and down (behind the rope to the right). The result of that is in the second pic where the pressure on the stick while standing will provide a friction lock at 2 spots. Keeping both hands on this and using your torso a bit to hold it in place leads to a tighter (and more horizontal if you want) cord. At either point in the first or second pic, you could have taken the closest daisy chain loop and put it over the button and been done. However, if you are willing to use 30 seconds, you can then take the tag end in the second photo and wrap it once around the front then back of the stick in the direction it seems to want to go (to left as it crosses the front) and then end with a daisy chain loop on the button (third photo).
This can of course be done in either direction as it suits you with the rights and lefts reversed in my description.
Looping the daisy chain on the button is merely for insurance and replaces an overhand knot you'd have to mess with during regular rope mod. If the first 2 steps are done tight, then the last loop barely pulls on the button and comes off easily. Last step is pull out on the bottom tree stand off (tree claw) and pull downward but do so deliberately and quietly. I find this method combines the best attributes of the daisy chain and the rope mod and allows you to revert to just daisy chain method if you'd like.
You can see the strands of the daisy chain spread out on the tree for additional grip and the brummel locks provide extra friction to hold my around the button weave in place. If your daisy chain diameter and versa button sizes match up, then it locks very tightly. I customize my versabutton height by using copper pipe as a spacer that is cheap and easily cut with a hand circular pipe cutter.