I like it. I've seen worse.
No doubt!
Have hunted out of everything from a foxhole in Tenn. to a out-house that was on an old abandoned farm site in KY. Many years ago, I got invited to W.V. to hunt with a buddy of mine and his relation. His Uncle owned a couple hundred acres outside of Beckley(sp?).
Since I couldn't get down there till after dark and season opened the next morning, I didn't get a chance to see where I was going to be hunting.
Being the hospitable type most in W.V. are, I was given the uncles fav. tree stand. That night,my buddy told me his uncle must have liked me cause he loved that stand an didn't give it up for anyone. I felt special
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The next morning, well before daylight , the guys dropped me off at my stand.
Not being able to see well, I climbed 30'-35' on what seemed to be an unstable ladder to a metal lawn chair that was affixed to the tree.
When the sun came up and I could see, I was afraid to move. The metal chair was about 50yrs old, rusty and the frame was cracking everywhere. It was chained to the tree and parts of the chain were embedded in the tree.
Needless to say,it had been up there for a few years.
The ladder I had climbed was two very old, wooden, rickety ladders, chain together and attached to the tree with ropes that had dry rotted some 10 yrs ago.
Needless to say, I couldn't sit up there and enjoy the hunt so I lowered my rifle, picked out a good landing spot and proceeded down the ladder....ladder cracking with each step.
I get on the ground, look up and this chair is actually leaning from the frame being twisted and rusted in two.
At noon the fella's showed up to get me and the first thing the Uncle proudly says is "what do ya think of that stand, that chairs comfortable huh?"
"That's a fine one, great location" was my reply as not to offend him.
Later, I was telling my buddy that I was worried his Uncle was going to fall out of the thing and just how bad a shape everything was in. We went in town and got a new metal chair, aluminum ladder and burned the mid-night oil putting it up as a surprise for his Uncle.
I was worried how his uncle would take this and was relieved to find out that he had been wanting to replace the set-up but didn't think he could do it by himself. He was the kind of guy that wouldn't ask anyone for any help.