How to use a Tree Saddle Tether 

Glad it helped!

+Davey Newman I think your really enjoy it! Did you see my Saddle Platform overview video? That might help you get started.

G2 Outdoors yea it was a great video very informative. I'm leaning towards the xop platform I feel it be better on the feet

Awesome! Thanks for checking it out.

G2 Outdoors of course, thank you for taking the time to show hunters the ways, and for helping to grow the hunting industry!

Yup. Works great.

You could use tape or stealth strips. I don't have any noise though.

vorsteg V ah! That's just a lightweight nylon cover for my ropeman & carabiner. I should have covered that. Good catch.

I think so. Should be fine

Same question. Plenty of Amsteel left over from making my bridge. Also wondering about using it for a linesman belt.

On a smaller diameter tree you could certainly do that and it would likely stay up "better". I used to worry about my tether slipping down the tree but it just doesn't. One thing with a double wrap around the tree.....if you needed to move to the other side of a large tree...you might not have enough tether rope to work with.

I know this question is a year late, and for for disclosure I am just now getting into saddle hunting, but I do have a background in abseiling, so perhaps I can give a bit of insight. One thing to reconsider when asking oneself whether or not to wrap the tether around the tree twice will be rope integrity. A rope will have a weight rating-my ropes for example are all rated well above 7000 lbs-however that rating is not valid in all circumstances. Putting bends into a rope will weaken it. I don’t mean permanently, but while it’s bent. The math is complicated, but as a rule of thumb you don’t want acute angle bends-this is why a knot such as a figure 8 weakens a rope much less than, say, a double overhand, for instance. Now, wrapping around a 15-18 inch tree is by no means an acute angle-especially when compared to a proper knot-however we must consider stacking tolerances. A rope which is rated at 1000 lbs, and already weakened by 40-60% because of the knots one uses, and THEN another 2-3% because of wear-and tear, and THEN another 2-3% because of weather, and THEN another 2-3% because of the first wrap around the tree, plus ANOTHER 2-3% because of the second-you see my point. That 1000 lbs rated rope my have the practical integrity of a 350 lbs rope while under field conditions, and that’s fine to support 200 lbs of hunter and equipment, but if that rope gets shock-loaded in a fall, you may have a bad day. Of course this is why proper climbing rope is as strong as it is, and why you shouldn’t skimp on the tether that may save your life. I use static abseiling rope for my lineman’s belt (in fact if I’m not mistaken it’s the exact same bluewater rope seen in this video) but I go a step further for any rope that I may take a fall on, and use dynamic climbing rope, which has a larger amount of stretch to it so that when your fall is arrested, you don’t come to a stop TOO suddenly. Be safe out there, and happy hunting!

Right now you have to find Ameristeps used online, or you can get a ring from Bullman Outdoors.