Quote History Quoted:
That's not the answer I was looking for. The stand wasn't stored it was placed on a tree in a bottom, that turned into a lake and I never went back in there for a year after the bottom flooded. Thanks, I will take a good look at the cables. Ol' man says they changed the design of the tubes on their climbers and now have rectangle tubing and no longer have the round cables that fit my stand. This will require a new stand.
View Quote
Sorry to hear that. But I wouldn't use that stand unless I could replace the cables. The coatings wear off the steel cables, and then they start to rust. My Summit is two years old, it's never left out overnight, and stored beneath my deck under a tarp in the off season. This year the cables have started to show some minor surface rust. I'll use the stand the rest of this year, but the cables will be replaced before the end of this season.
While a harness will keep you from falling if your cables fail, hanging from a tree by just a harness is a bad place to be. Better than instantly hitting the ground, but pretty bad.