Warning : To all my fellow hunters

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Adrian J Hare

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Check your Hang on stand platform cables. This happened at 24 feet up this morning. Never in a 100 years did I think they would let go.


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The manufacturer of my ladder stands says to replace the tree straps every second year if they are left out but check them every year by loosening the ratchet and tightening it back down and inspect the straps .
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Seems like pretty flimsy cable, plastic covering doesn't help. Guess the message is, check your equipment before you trust your life to it.

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Exactly, the vinyl coating only traps moisture and rusts the cable out. Remember the old tailgate cables on early 90's trucks?, same thing but they've upgraded to stainless steel now. For an extra 5 or 10 bucks the manufacturer could have done the same thing and not potentially hurt someone.
 
I always add a few extra chains and straps, just to be sure it's not going to fall down while I nap up there
 
Thanks for the warning.
We're going to have to go to portables.
Anti gunners/hunters/whatever have of the past couple of years been cutting our permanent tree stands down (tree and all) in the area of northern ontario where we've hunted for 30 years.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Seems like pretty flimsy cable, plastic covering doesn't help. Guess the message is, check your equipment before you trust your life to it.

Grizz
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Safety ropes are a must not an option and those metal hook steps you screw into the tree always made me nervous.
We used to use a wooden ladder and left it there all summer so the fauna could get used to it.
One slip and a guy could be converted to a tenor pretty quick.
 
And I forgot to add that a wooden ladder doesn't damage the tree and if attached to the tree stand can help support it.
 
Those cables are no different than the ones used on some pickup tailgates. I've seen more than a few let go when trying to load an ATV. Glad you are ok.
 
Agreed that those plastic covered cables aren't much and the higher the stand and the rockier the ground below the flimsier they look.
Our old bones don't take kindly to fall impacts.
That's why we wear safety harnesses.
We have a couple of portable stands and the first thing we do after we get up into them is fasten our safety lanyards to a big branch.
Much preferred the big spaceous home made stands but found them all turned into stumps last year.
 
The cables are replaced by 1/4 in chain now. Never will cables ever be on a stand I own. That stand is never left out and is one of my best portables. I am replacing most of them with ladder stands now.
 
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