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Posted: 9/30/2015 4:38:07 PM EDT
While ordering a replacement net seat from  Ol' Man, they said that my cables on my 3 year old alum. stand might be corroded/rusted and possibly dangerous.  I am going to cut back some of the rubber and inspect it. Has anyone heard of a cable failure on a tree climber?
Link Posted: 9/30/2015 10:46:21 PM EDT
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While ordering a replacement net seat from  Ol' Man, they said that my cables on my 3 year old alum. stand might be corroded/rusted and possibly dangerous.  I am going to cut back some of the rubber and inspect it. Has anyone heard of a cable failure on a tree climber?
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yes i have.

depending on how they were stored or how chewed up they are from tree bark some guys i know replace them every season. $30 bucks on cables is worth not sliding down the tree one time.

i only hunt from a climber a handful of times a year so i havent replaced mine yet, although the stand is 1.5 years old and stored inside/away from anything that might chew on the rubber
Link Posted: 10/1/2015 3:57:26 PM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 10/4/2015 7:49:14 AM EDT
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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.
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That's poor business practice
Link Posted: 10/4/2015 12:31:38 PM EDT
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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.
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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.
Link Posted: 10/5/2015 11:43:36 AM EDT
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Thanks for the info guys.
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