Black Titan
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So I have this Muddy tree seat for ground hunting. It's awful. The strap it comes with stretches, it won't stay tight to the tree, and this necessitates carrying a seperate ratchet strap to get it tight to the tree. Otherwise it just kind of hangs there and sways side to side, very unstable.
I had that extra RDA truckers hitch laying around, and took the factory strap off, and installed the button from one of my old XOP X2 sticks in its place. This didn't help anything. The "teeth" on the post don't grab at all, and if you sit and put too much weight on one cheek, you're falling out of this thing.
So this morning, I decided to take the stick and standoffs from the old XOP stick I was using as my one stick, put the button back on it, and install the tree seat to that post.
Huge difference. The thing actually locks to the tree now. If I sit far back on it, I feel the button and top of the post in my back, but I generally don't sit that way anyways. I still may attempt to cut it down a smidge just to help with that. Only thing else I need to really do is weld a section of plate, or run a bolt through the post where the leveling bolt contacts the post so I can get a better angle. It's tilted slightly down the way it is with the leveling bolt maxed. A longer bolt would work too.
Old post with "standoff"
xop post with their standoffs
BT
I had that extra RDA truckers hitch laying around, and took the factory strap off, and installed the button from one of my old XOP X2 sticks in its place. This didn't help anything. The "teeth" on the post don't grab at all, and if you sit and put too much weight on one cheek, you're falling out of this thing.
So this morning, I decided to take the stick and standoffs from the old XOP stick I was using as my one stick, put the button back on it, and install the tree seat to that post.
Huge difference. The thing actually locks to the tree now. If I sit far back on it, I feel the button and top of the post in my back, but I generally don't sit that way anyways. I still may attempt to cut it down a smidge just to help with that. Only thing else I need to really do is weld a section of plate, or run a bolt through the post where the leveling bolt contacts the post so I can get a better angle. It's tilted slightly down the way it is with the leveling bolt maxed. A longer bolt would work too.
Old post with "standoff"
xop post with their standoffs
BT