Just finished putting up a couple of tree stands last weekend. Just thought I'd pass along a suggestion for any else putting them up.

DON'T forget your damn metric wrenches. I had to use my Cajun tool kit (two crecent wrenches) and it took forever.

DON"T forget your canteen. By the time I finished, I could have drunk out of a hoofprint.

dont forget your marking tape.

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Cajun tool kit

That's good! Aroung here we call them Mexican All Sixteenths.

Don't forget your rope either. Done that on the only tree stand I ever had. Since I have never seen a deer in a tree, I always hunt from a ground blind now. As I get older, it is safer.

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Originally posted by larrys:

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Cajun tool kit

That's good! Aroung here we call them Mexican All Sixteenths.

Don't forget your rope either. Done that on the only tree stand I ever had. Since I have never seen a deer in a tree, I always hunt from a ground blind now. As I get older, it is safer.

i have a spot at camp i call Iwo-Jima. its marked in just like a stand but theres no stand there just a pile of rocks (about 20 golf ball sized rocks) were the club GPS says the stand is. i have a little spot under a cedar tree i like to sit.
the first year i had a few guys want to hunt it come back and tell me they couldnt find the stand.

Another thing I forgot to bring was duct tape.
The ladders assemble with clips that create a metalic rattle. Sounds like an oyster sack full of beer cans falling down stairs. Just tape 'em up.


I usually refer to this as arborial engineering.