How to Climb a Tree with a Saddle Setup from Start to Finish!

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6 ай бұрын

In this video, I go over how I climb a tree with my saddle setup. I go over the gear I use and how I use the gear from start to finish.
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@charlesmichael1927 6 ай бұрын

Josh, my name is Michael. I live in Eastern NC. I been watching u since you started Before the Echo. My wife is from Terre Haute Indiana. She also has a sister that lives in Illinois. I'm planing on coming out there to hunt in October. Maybe we could get together, do a hunt, get lunch, maybe my wife and I could check your church out while we're there. Dude, u have a great spirit, I see Jesus all over you when I watch your videos. I'll stay in touch through your channel. Keep up the good work..

@alexmcbride9761 5 ай бұрын

A good tip I picked up from someone that I can't remember is to attach a long nite ize gear tie to your platform and use the gear tie to hang your platform from your lineman's belt when hanging your platform to keep hands free

@jalton9416 6 ай бұрын

My pull rope cost me a super nice buck in September in Kentucky. Take care of the pull rope before you are settled.

@phillygrappler 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for showing a full climb up and down the tree using all of your sticks. This was extremely helpful for someone who is new to using a saddle and climbing sticks. All the other videos I’ve seen only show only one climbing stick attached to the bottom of the tree, and they say pretend I’m at the top of my tree. Thanks for not being lazy!

@DH20056 6 ай бұрын

Crazy timing. I watched your trad bow video to completion and then saw the premiere staring within 30 seconds of me wrapping up your video. I always enjoy your content. Keep it up.

@easternadventures4254 6 ай бұрын

Josh have you tried putting your platform at the same level of the top step? You lose a little height but can very easily slide around the tree onto your step to get to your weak side. After I tried it that way I setup every time now like this.

@lestaylor8873 6 ай бұрын

Your pro-tip on not dropping your pull-up rope is a lesson I learned the hard way many years ago! Lowered the bow, dropped the rope, started descending the tree in my climber, then heard footsteps. Had to stand there and watch a buck slowly feed past me while my bow was on the ground 😂😂😂

@mimike2640 6 ай бұрын

I caved to the youtube videos and bought an ESS with skeletor sticks. Personally just looking to hunt river bottom trees in MI with it. Treestands don't always like trees with multiple trunks that start5' off the ground. Great video keep them coming.

@bluegrassdroneguy3495 6 ай бұрын

Great info there One thing to consider is keeping the tether hooked up in case a step rope or strap broke or some reason you slipped or missed a step you would not fall, the linemen’s rope only holds you close to the tree but if you fall it won’t catch you

@Rick-br7qn 6 ай бұрын

Great video. As many saddle hunting set up videos there are out there I think yours is the first to show the entire process. Not some shortened version where they go up one stick.

@ronsgarage2057 6 ай бұрын

One thing I like to do is make my platform even with the top of my top stick so I can use the stick as a platform if needed to swivel more around the tree. Well done josh!

@woodardcsw 6 ай бұрын

Down to earth actual footage that we go thru to get up the tree .

@TS1023TS 6 ай бұрын

I ended up running 3 Tethrd One Sticks with ajders on all three sticks this year and would get 20 feet. Crazy light setup and stacks so well.

@erichanson7261 6 ай бұрын

I bought that bow rope right after you talked about it in a video in early season. I absolutely love it!

@josephpitt9531 6 ай бұрын

What's it called?

@joelkrystof5877 6 ай бұрын

Good show as always my friend

@pastorbillyedgar4986 6 ай бұрын

Thanks

@pathfinder5804 6 ай бұрын

Good video!!! I try to describe to my buddies that I’m nowhere as fast getting up tree while saddle hunting compared to my climber. However being able to hunt almost any tree is the benefit for me. I can be up a tree and setup to hunt in climber in 5-8min no problem and a saddle setup takes me 15-18min. However walking into my hunting spot is WAY easier so the time I lose climbing I make up for in ease of walking into spot. Again though for me it’s the huntable trees gained with a saddle. Yes shooting a bow is more difficult but a little practice and I’m efficient with that. For gun hunting I can’t find draw back!!!!!

@jwhittington188 6 ай бұрын

No beast gear sticks?

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I have some they're awesome

@kidneystones3406 6 ай бұрын

The benefits of using aiders with your climbing sticks is that you would carry less weight and it would also take less time climbing a tree. Hence thats why 95 % of KZfaq videos show saddle hunters using aiders with their climbing sticks.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Yes like I said I use them just don't have them on for late season when I have a bunch of clothes on

@jeffm.1256 6 ай бұрын

Hey Josh. I’m sure you’ve been asked this & answered it a Buncha times. Just curious why you’re not using the beast sticks?

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sponsored by them or anything just trying out other brands to see what I like and don't like. I like how the latitude stick stack, the weight, and the amsteel attachment. The beast sticks do bite the tree a bit better.

@chriswagner7828 6 ай бұрын

your best video yet

@jordanhudson5075 6 ай бұрын

Anyone notice the deer looking bush on the left hand side of the tree at the bottom obviously

@bigg9101 6 ай бұрын

Keep ‘em coming Josh! Good content! I tried the saddle but it’s not for me. I am not stable enough shooting out of them. I prefer lock ons or a climber! I wish a saddle would work for me as I can see the benefit of using one!👍

@zekeoutdoors 6 ай бұрын

I need to make a video on how me and zeke set up, we get 16 feet or so I'm the tree , stand and settle. Zeke gets up there while being tide off from ground to stand.

@richarddean3154 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I continually consider going to a saddle but I have two portable tree stands with four climbing sticks for each and can't justify spending $300 more just to shave a few pounds. You got up the tree quick though - thank you for the fine content.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Yep nothing wrong with a stand

@TS1023TS 6 ай бұрын

Man, I would sell one portable stand and get a saddle. I run the method 2 and also XOP hang on. I bought the method 2 this year and used it more than the stand. Always have been a hang on guy. Having both options is nice tho. Method 2 is comfortable at least for me.

@silentassassin1108 6 ай бұрын

Do you have any videos on how you keep your saddle gear organized and ready for a hunt. Mine is always a mess.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

I need to do one just to get reorganized 😂

@silentassassin1108 6 ай бұрын

Mine is organized the first day of season and just gets worse as the season goes

@MrUnder937 6 ай бұрын

How do you like the latitude sticks? Ive been debating getting a set.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

They are good. They stack awesome and are light. It's taken me awhile to get them figured out so they don't make noise on the tree. They also have a bit of a break in time for the material to settle but now that I got that all situated they are all good. They don't bite as well as the beast sticks

@heavyd2249 6 ай бұрын

only thing I would change is to attach your tether before stepping onto the platform.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

I guess I could, I have my lineman's belt on so I am still attached to the tree.

@mathews2088 6 ай бұрын

Been back n forth with saddle and treestand ,, do you feel you can shoot as accurate out of a saddle compared to a treestand? How’d you get over thinking about having to take a weak side shot?

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Hey, um thats a tough one.... probably not but haven't really compared. It can def put you in a more awkward position. And the weak side shot is kind of what a mean by awkward positions.

@jonathansmith4787 6 ай бұрын

How do you do it late season with tons of clothes do you climb up fully dressed or hang your set & come back down & cool down & then get dressed & climb back up

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

I get dressed once I'm up in the stand...I'll use a stand if I have real heavy clothes on

@ericsiler 6 ай бұрын

Do you normally leave your pack on the ground or bring it up and hang it from your gear strap?

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Bring it up with me in my back

@josephtreadlightly5686 6 ай бұрын

I will send u my new KZfaq channel next spring. That Amsteel is great stuff. Light & very strong. But I use it in rigging with my part-time Arborist work as a cable cuz its not heavy but on rough bark it can fray. Always like the Latitude saddles & the metal free options they have. When i use a linesmans i always use a floater & i choke it off so i can't have any of the slack that the linesmans has. I enjoyed the video. Was that a 3D target on the ground? Kinda looked like an antelope.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Haha yeah it's a 3d target

@josephtreadlightly5686 6 ай бұрын

@@beforetheecho I have four 3D deer target course. U can only shoot it from up in a 🌳. The last Saturday night in October I had a buck come into it & damaged 3 of the targets. One of them even lost it's head. B4 that he bent the post on my neighbors mail box & once again in November he tore the mailbox off the post. The weird thing is that I didn't put antlers on my targets. He actually mounted 3 of them! 😒

@jasonmorgan7429 6 ай бұрын

Not sure if you noticed but there is an antelope behind you

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

Dang thing was right under my nose

@jasonstiers6951 6 ай бұрын

So, you use the amsteel rope for your aider and to hold your steps on? I bought some amteel rope to make aiders, and I want to switch to something different than the straps I have for the Hawk Helium sticks.

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

They are amsteel aiders from the amsteel guy. Im not sure if thats what you're asking or not

@jasonstiers6951 6 ай бұрын

I was wondering about the rope you use to hold the sticks to the tree. I have Hawk Helium sticks and I do not care for them

@billmcdowell4826 6 ай бұрын

👍

@markburrell2778 6 ай бұрын

Mutiny ! You are not supposed to use anything but a Beast Stand.

@swampdogglawless88 6 ай бұрын

I never hunted out of a stand always stop and stalk or ground blind which you say would be safer a climber or saddle to me when I look at both my opinion is the climber is safer can you tell me if the saddle is safer can you tell me why thank you

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

I don't think either is unsafe if you use them right. You can be connected to the tree at all times with both. The saddle is more versatile with tree selection and lighter, but a climber would be more comfortable.

@swampdogglawless88 6 ай бұрын

@@beforetheecho thank you

@rangerpilot2747 6 ай бұрын

1>4

@bayoubeauxhunter 6 ай бұрын

I prefer to hunt from a lock on but prefer to travel with/set up a saddle…..torn

@ukjw2 6 ай бұрын

Shoot man. Looks like ya got an antelope underneath ya.

@proudlyamerican2764 6 ай бұрын

I didnt test climb enough ( just once). Big mistake when you try the wrong sized tree,bangin and clangin and more! Lol its a trap that im guessing quite a few have tripped into even if they wont admit to it! It honestly sucks you may ruin the few hunts ya have so dont do it practice and be efficient

@proudlyamerican2764 6 ай бұрын

I got around 9 hunts in this year( work out of town,kids,wife,life) atleast 6 of which I walked into the wood way overloaded in the name of prepared! Most prepared items never came out of my pack! Needing tossed and pack heavy itself but when carrying stand and sticks it's better then my (back fanny pack plus similar to thp pack this year) lighter pack. The alps pathfinder great pack not necessarily made for strapping up to 25lb on the back of it. Can do it but thinking ahead of if I kill then I'm carrying 30 more pound so it muddied up my thinking when I should have separated hunt,kill and reduced my wieght earlier on

@kidneystones3406 6 ай бұрын

Why wouldn't you use aiders with your climbing sticks. I don't believe I ever seen tree saddle hunter that doesn't use aiders with there climbing sticks. Your show beginners the most difficult way of climbing a tree. I am not trying to mean towards but if you your research on youtube everyone is using aiders

@beforetheecho 6 ай бұрын

There's a lot of reasons not and reason to use them early when I have less clothing on

@kidneystones3406 6 ай бұрын

It is alot more difficult to climb trees without aiders and I watch a lot of tree saddle climbing videos and nobody does that and there is good reason for that.