Now is the time to give your stands a good going over. I spent Thur/Fri pulling all my stands and stuff out of my lease. I just now got around to pulling everything off the trailer and looking them over really quick to see what supplies I need to spruce them up. Gonna change all bolts to stainless, paint, and replace the straps and padding..Also, get the caked up mud out of the bottom of the legs
Low and behold...One of the ladder stands bottom section of ladder was busted. Looks like it filled up with water and exploded. I did not notice this when we took them down the other day. Luckily it held while we were taking them down. Scary.
Luckily I can get a replacement section of ladder and be back in business with this stand
and NO i didnt use that stand.. lol
man your rough on chairs, buckets, stands and trucks, better have them check the springs and shocks while the trucks in the shop. and thats comin from no flyweight either.
I'll give another tip if ya'll don't mind. I'm sure everyone already does this... But just in case... if you're in a climber be sure you have a lead line that attaches the foot platform to the seat platform. I've sat in a tree for 13 hours waiting on someone to answer their phones and get me out of a tree because my foot platform fell 25 feet to the ground. Thats a LONG wait, I don't care HOW comfortable your stand is.
I too leave my climber in the woods. I've been known to leave it out all year. Check the bolts and connectors before climbing for rust. Rust equals weakness. If it's rusted up, it needs replacing.
thats somethig you learn after the first time it happens. luckily I did it in the back yard at 6 feet just practicing with it.
This just happened to me a couple of years ago. I got in a rush one morning and didn't tie it. Figured since I was climbing a pine I wouldn't need it, that extra 10 seconds was WAY too long ya know. Now that lead line NEVER gets untied.
