Good luck getting around the first big knot in the tree....and no way in hell are you getting where my hang on is with a climber.
I'm not trying to argue as I have a Lonewolf Alpha and sticks. However I prefer my hand climber. I will go around knots and limbs only with the hand climber. I would not try this with a summit or tree walker or anything of that type. Here are a few photos of what I'm talking about. Here is the tree I climbed. I actually climbed a little higher but had to come down because I could not see past limbs where I wanted to see
