The heavy cheap ones are fine if your going to put them up and leave them all year. if your going to carry them in and bring them back out I would go with the light stand that will cost a little more. you might want to get one light one and 2 cheap heavy ones.
For my fixed stands that I'm not planning on moving I use screw in steps also. I personally love them. I need roughly 13 to 15 of them to get me up to around 20 feet. I have no issues getting them started and I feel very safe using them. I've never timed it, but if I had to guess, I could hang a stand and be hunting in less then 20 minutes. They are very quiet too once in the tree. Once the stand is hung, I just take out the first 4 or 5 steps to keep the honest people honest and once season rolls around I put them back in.
