My dad built all our stands. Conduit heated and bent by hand. Welded with a torch and metal coat hangers for braising rods. 1x4 board for a seat and hugged the tree to climb. He would stand under us and push us up 6 feet high then take our watch away and say don’t get down till I’m back. Memories ❤
- We were making them back in 1973 with conduit and braszing rods. For a hand climbers we use motorcycle chain and more conduit with bolts through the handles to climb with. I've climbed hundreds of tree with those things. And were pretty quiet going up a tree with them. Of course there were no compounds bows at that time but when the Allen compound came out that was the thing to have! I shot Jerry Simmons Interceptor broadheeds since Jerry was in the hunting club I was in at the time. This video brought back a lot of memories.
I use to use a strap to pull myself up the tree. Used it with an old Baker stand & then a TSS . The Baker got a different board installed that was thicker & longer than the original board. Lots of old memories on this video.
Josh the most popular tree stand of that type was called a baker climber ,,,brand name baker stand ,,I’ve killed hundreds of deer out of those with recurve bows and the first compounds bear whitetail hunters in the seventies,,,and yes we hugged the trees to get up and down but the foot straps had to be placed in the right spot per individual with a bungee cord behind your feet to keep it from slipping off your feet ,,also we had a climbing seat that made it a little easier to go up ,,,the two sections had to be tied together to keep us from losing the bottom piece
This is hilarious! I climbed for years with an old Amaker climbing stand. Kept the skin raw on my chest and inner arms. It was the best back then! Hits home. I graduated in 83 also. Crazy!
That's what I was thinking they had to have had a hand climber. The foot straps would need to be closer to the tree if you were going to hug the tree. I am the same age as your dad and I remember hunting out of some hand made stands very similar to that.
I built a few of those back in the 80's myself. Never had one fail. And and and, being the young punk I was, I never wore any safety harness. But I wouldn't do it again now that I'm older
Josh, you need to tuck your feet under those green straps towards the tree. Your feet so far away makes it hard to pull that base up. My first stand was not homemade, but it looked very similar to what you got there. I remember the metal was aluminum and it had stress fractures all over it haha.
Those baker stands were absolute death traps. I almost fell and/or got stranded when the bottom slipped. I hated that thing back in the ‘80’s ended up throwing it in the river and never missed it.
Jc thanks now I feel old. Your dad's only a few years older than me. I use to make 2 stands outa 1 sheet of 3/4" plywood... and chain. Way more than 16lb.
I bent up plenty of conduit stands back in the day. Fabricated many of them. I have one in the woods out behind the house. I'd hate to see how grown into the tree it is now. It is an old swivel limb variant.
I had a TSS version that didn’t have the V-bar, it had a flexible steel band that went around the tree. The big danger was stepping too close the tree and WHOOSH down you go!
Lol. Mighta worked the way you tried it if the foot strap was a little further back. Maybe a little surprising all our dads lived long enough to procreate considering they all used stuff like this😂
I literally have something very similar to this but has rotted fabric I think I’m going to replace. Like you said I won’t be 20 feet up in a tree with it but I can probably find a spot where I can place it and use it as a spot to sit up off the ground as long as it was hidden somewhere how
Hahaha. I can't believe I was doing that when I was 12. I'd have way more chest hair if I didn't slide down so many times. That made you a man real quick. Holding the tree is og stuff
Looks like a Baker Tree Stand Knock Off Hugged many trees in my time before climbing aids our chests and sternums would be bruised at the end of a week of hunting those were the days
I've been up in some crazy stands back in the day. We wont even talk about safety and/or harness. Not anymore. I am as safe as possible when I leave the ground now!
@beforetheecho run a double loop of rope around the tree first loop tight second loop that you can slip between it and the tree turn your back to the tree pushing down on the rope lift your toes and pull your knees up flatten your toes to reset shimmy the rope up repeat. That's how I did it with my first DIY "climber"
I don't know yet man. I feel so dang guilty using a trad bow. I'll def have to hunt more to get a deer killed and that takes time away from the family.
nevermind, from your early July video it appears you're using sticks..... i think this year I'm gonna use my Beast sticks and kinda do like Dan, just a couple trips up and down the tree to get them all installed and then I'll head to the top with my platform. I'm breaking out my Trophyline saddle and edp platform to use this year. My ESS (eberhart) saddle is great too, but i can sleep in the Trophyline and still be totally safe if i needed to take a nap. Maybe a new refresher video of exactly how your gonna install your sticks all the way to the top and then your platform if you get time...... thanks
My dad built all our stands. Conduit heated and bent by hand. Welded with a torch and metal coat hangers for braising rods. 1x4 board for a seat and hugged the tree to climb. He would stand under us and push us up 6 feet high then take our watch away and say don’t get down till I’m back. Memories ❤
I am laughing at the "taking watch away" part.
Death traps!!! Brings back fond memories.
Bet you your relatives had some good hunting memories out of that stand. Like your garage setup it’s very organized and all the useful tools.
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We were making them back in 1973 with conduit and braszing rods. For a hand climbers we use motorcycle chain and more conduit with bolts through the handles to climb with. I've climbed hundreds of tree with those things. And were pretty quiet going up a tree with them. Of course there were no compounds bows at that time but when the Allen compound came out that was the thing to have! I shot Jerry Simmons Interceptor broadheeds since Jerry was in the hunting club I was in at the time. This video brought back a lot of memories.
I use to use a strap to pull myself up the tree.
Used it with an old Baker stand & then a TSS . The Baker got a different board installed that was thicker & longer than the original board. Lots of old memories on this video.
Josh the most popular tree stand of that type was called a baker climber ,,,brand name baker stand ,,I’ve killed hundreds of deer out of those with recurve bows and the first compounds bear whitetail hunters in the seventies,,,and yes we hugged the trees to get up and down but the foot straps had to be placed in the right spot per individual with a bungee cord behind your feet to keep it from slipping off your feet ,,also we had a climbing seat that made it a little easier to go up ,,,the two sections had to be tied together to keep us from losing the bottom piece
One more good one. Moves platform .5 inches 😂😂😂😂 this is so good
This is hilarious!
I climbed for years with an old Amaker climbing stand. Kept the skin raw on my chest and inner arms. It was the best back then!
Hits home. I graduated in 83 also. Crazy!
yes, i'm only 40 years, but i know the skin raw on the chest situation with those stands.
That's what I was thinking they had to have had a hand climber. The foot straps would need to be closer to the tree if you were going to hug the tree. I am the same age as your dad and I remember hunting out of some hand made stands very similar to that.
Dude I'm cracking up😂😂😂
Hi Josh, I built a climbing stand in 1975 in high school metal shop. Thing weighed about 25 pounds. No harness back then.
necessity is the mother of invention
I built a few of those back in the 80's myself. Never had one fail. And and and, being the young punk I was, I never wore any safety harness. But I wouldn't do it again now that I'm older
My first tree stands in the 90s were all stands my dad or uncles made. I didnt use a safety strap untill I bought a stand for myself around 1998-99
It was a lot more stable than I thought it would be
Use to hunt out of one of these when I was younger!
I know a guy who used to lay a 2 x 4 across level branches in a tree and hunt off that .. sometimes he was 20+ feet up .. insane
How are you planning to get up and down trees this year when you're saddle hunting Josh ?
Josh, you need to tuck your feet under those green straps towards the tree. Your feet so far away makes it hard to pull that base up. My first stand was not homemade, but it looked very similar to what you got there. I remember the metal was aluminum and it had stress fractures all over it haha.
Haha there isn't a green strap under the tree
This brings back old memories not in a good lmao
Those baker stands were absolute death traps. I almost fell and/or got stranded when the bottom slipped. I hated that thing back in the ‘80’s ended up throwing it in the river and never missed it.
Anyone remember those Baker Climbing stands. Can't believe I use to use one lol
That is the Baker design, back in day the every Pa hunter had one
Jc thanks now I feel old. Your dad's only a few years older than me. I use to make 2 stands outa 1 sheet of 3/4" plywood... and chain. Way more than 16lb.
I bent up plenty of conduit stands back in the day. Fabricated many of them. I have one in the woods out behind the house. I'd hate to see how grown into the tree it is now. It is an old swivel limb variant.
I had a TSS version that didn’t have the V-bar, it had a flexible steel band that went around the tree. The big danger was stepping too close the tree and WHOOSH down you go!
Yes usually those are two parts same style as foot Park but one for the top so you can sit
Lol. Mighta worked the way you tried it if the foot strap was a little further back. Maybe a little surprising all our dads lived long enough to procreate considering they all used stuff like this😂
I had Amaker adjustable climber
I love it and hate it at the same time.
I literally have something very similar to this but has rotted fabric I think I’m going to replace. Like you said I won’t be 20 feet up in a tree with it but I can probably find a spot where I can place it and use it as a spot to sit up off the ground as long as it was hidden somewhere how
Hahaha. I can't believe I was doing that when I was 12. I'd have way more chest hair if I didn't slide down so many times. That made you a man real quick. Holding the tree is og stuff
haha, i love it. $20 to the first person that gets 10 feet.
The foot straps need to be moved towards the tree about five inches
Looks like a Baker Tree Stand Knock Off Hugged many trees in my time before climbing aids our chests and sternums would be bruised at the end of a week of hunting those were the days
I've been up in some crazy stands back in the day. We wont even talk about safety and/or harness. Not anymore. I am as safe as possible when I leave the ground now!
I was dying laughing at you hugging the tree.😂😂😂 I was talking at the screen "you're missing the top gripper bar"
Hahah I've heard of people climbing without one...I have no idea how. Unless putting your feet closer to the tree helps
@beforetheecho run a double loop of rope around the tree first loop tight second loop that you can slip between it and the tree turn your back to the tree pushing down on the rope lift your toes and pull your knees up flatten your toes to reset shimmy the rope up repeat. That's how I did it with my first DIY "climber"
@@elizabeth_williams orrr hang it up in the barn and back to my sticks and saddle 😂
That's how the climbers used to work , u hug the tree was the way
That's how old climbers were designed to hug the tree ... was no top hand climber etc.
Awesome
Think you’ll trad bow or compound mostly
I don't know yet man. I feel so dang guilty using a trad bow. I'll def have to hunt more to get a deer killed and that takes time away from the family.
Man you really look like your dad 🙂
nevermind, from your early July video it appears you're using sticks..... i think this year I'm gonna use my Beast sticks and kinda do like Dan, just a couple trips up and down the tree to get them all installed and then I'll head to the top with my platform. I'm breaking out my Trophyline saddle and edp platform to use this year. My ESS (eberhart) saddle is great too, but i can sleep in the Trophyline and still be totally safe if i needed to take a nap. Maybe a new refresher video of exactly how your gonna install your sticks all the way to the top and then your platform if you get time...... thanks
Probably missing the hand held top
Got to start at the bottom with the nose way up so it levels off as you up
Yep. I wasn't going to climb very high with it
Maybe it would be easier to put your feet in under the supports. The straps look too far back.
foot strap too far from tree, look at a summit and see how close the stirrup is.
Missing the top piece
I take it it was a scammer on the give away. Don't worry I didnt text the number 😂
Yes scammer sorry it's been a ongoing battle with them today
@@beforetheecho at first I was like no way I won. Then I was like there was no way you hit 30k already and the comment was deleted 🤣
70s and 80s when men were men :)