I think there’s a major problem with how sharp the edges are on the actual steps.. I got single step aiders for the sticks, tonight was my 5th hunt on those sticks/aiders. I was on my way up, on the 4th stick when the aider got CUT in half by the sharp edge of the step, causing me to fall a couple feet resulting in that same sharp edge to slice my arm wide open. The aiders are 1/8” Amsteel with 2500lb breaking strength, it lasted 5 hunts.. I’ll attach pics of my jacked up arm. A lesser man probably would of climbed down for some first aid, and maybe some stitches, but I figured if I stuck it out, karma might reward me with a booner walking by.. So I made a makeshift bandaid and dawged it out like a man. And of course, I didn’t see a damn thing.
The sticks work great, they bite deep into the tree. But they will also bite deep into your bicep on the climbing side of the step.
I’m not a review guy but I wanted to give a heads up if you use aiders. Wear your lineman, or else it could be worse.
Pics attached.
I have 4 platforms, EDP is the easiest to lock on the tree and most stable platform of the 4
The shipping and turn around time was excellent I had it within 3 days. I received it and the sticks inside were very under packaged. They had scuffs and scratches all over them where they had been sliding around in the box. The sticks themselves bite the tree very well, but the sticks had razor sharp burrs on them from manufacturing, and I had sliced my finger pretty good when I was first climbing them. So if you buy these you’ll have to sand down the edges to get those burrs off. For the price point I feel like the sticks could have been packaged better and they shouldn’t have had burrs on them like they did. Overall if I could go back I wouldn’t buy them, but since I have them they’ll do.