Ladder stand

I have a ladder stand and climbed into it last night I noticed a bow in the ladder. It is bowing out slightly I am woundering if this is dangerous. I have all the straps tied and the brace at the bottom to stabelize the ladder. When we put it up it looked straight and no bow in it. I think from it settling it started to bow.

 

Grab some more straps, I hunt out of 21' ladder stands and they are tied to the tree in 5 places with braces, I don't like any noise and don't like heights so I do not want any movement of the stand as I climb up and down

 

Nope not dangerous. Adjust your cross bar in a bit and that should take the bend out of it...

 

your good just throw an extra strap on it just to be safe.

 

Thank you did not want an accident falling out of the tree!

 

You also may have your support bar to low.

 

Good advice!

 

I use two man ladders because I like the room. Hard to get the platform to stay level sometimes and that will put a bow in your ladder. We have started setting up our ladders using a climber so there is no weight on the ladder when we are putting it up and tying it off. Works well !