@boyne bowhunter has an excellent video with the carabiner portion of the above that still seems like a great method to me. No mention of knaider, but it's still worth watching. I've never tried stepps, but rewatching it today and it still seems like a valid method.
The OG thread on it, but many videos and pictures are gone now:
Definitely an easy and safe way to climb the tree. I have to admit though I haven't used them in a couple of years. For me they're a bit cumbersome, not going up but going down. Even rappelling I hated untying and storing each on the way down. I also hunt fairly high pressured public and I felt like the marks I left on the tree when using them was like sign posts for other hunters that says "this must be a good spot someone else sat here".
new wild edge user. This seem so much quicker than what I have been doing. The knaider/swaider has its learning curve as well. Glad I stumbled into this.
I tend to forget about that because it has become so engrained in my technique but the 2 biggest game changers in my climbing method were @boyne bowhunter's video on that knot and the invention of the knaider.
I'm righty and put it on my right leg. I just raise my leg up to get it on the right side of the rung. Sometimes I'll let it settle against the right side, sometimes it settles in the middle. It depends on how straight the stepp is on. Usually I slowly put weight onto the knaider to make sure it doesn't slide and let it settle where it wants to if it does.
@redsquirrel are you still using the stock ropes that come with the steps or have you changed them out to something different?
Stock ropes. We got Andrew to make a set of ropes that was weaved a little tighter way back when so those on one of my sets but the rest have just the standard ropes.
