In 1968, a climbing tree stand was introduced by a company in Georga. It retailed for $29.95, and was guaranteed. Of course, they didn't say what they guaranteed. 8^).
What was the name of the stand that was introduced? Winner gets a prize of my choice; vintage of course 8^))))).
I'll check back now and then until Thursday night. I'll be going to Forksville, Pa., for the Pa. Bowhunter's Festival over the weekend so won't be near any 'puters.
Baker Manufacturing Company
Would it be the Baker?
Vermonster beat me too it...I still have one of those. Should of been called the Trap Door..LOL
I took a ride down a tree in one of those once.
The official name was the Baker Climbing
Treestand.
I'll take a stab at this. Was it the Tree Lounge?
I off by 20yrs.
Baker is the one...
I think it was Dan Quillian's Deer Hunter's Dream stand. He later had a really great stand I still hunt from called the Fox Squirrel, very much ahead of it's time, first stand I ever saw with a flexible band that hugged the tree (rest of 'em had v- bars)
The Fox squirrel stand! I am that old! They still have the P.A. Bowhunter's Festival, George? And yes, it was made by Baker. I had one too!
I have a picture of John Shulz and Jerry Hill at the shoot in the '80s! Bowhunter Magazine use to have a full page add, and I remember Stacy shootin asprins with a longbow, before his Zipper recurve days! Life was simple and good, Steve.
Joel, as your were typing, Dang gum Dial-up! Good shootin, Steve
You may find this hard to believe, but no one has guessed the name of the stand yet. I didn't ask for the company name....the stand had a name.
Keep going, I'll check back occasionally to see if anyone has called it.
wasnt it called the squirrel
The Mighty Mite
I think that it was called the "Bushwacker" by Baker. I recall that they came down sometimes on their own while leaving you holding on to the tree for dear life.
Nope. Almost makes you want to swear, eh? :rolleyes: :coffee:
Slim Jim?
Mighty Mite?
Send Help?
I would say it was the Baker out of Valdosta, Georgia but they came out in the early 70's although a Mobbs invented on in 68 in georgia so i will go with Mobbs convertible back pack
Baker Widow Maker
DEATH TRAP !!!!!
Life insurance required
Trap
i grew up on the rifleman stands, im not quite as old as some of yall i guess!
Tree hugger or hand climber?
Lord I forgot about them things that was my first and last tree stand. Mine let go in Potter County Pa and there was camo jacket pieces all the way down that pine tree and some of my skin also. I was very lucky and just got skinned up.
Original. Hap
Animal Stand by Edward L. Moragne...
I bet KennyM got it with the Mighty Mite.
The "Thing" i believe was the name of it.
Good one George, with all the time I spent standing on one of these I didn't realize it had a name. I have some names for it after riding it down some trees and losing the wingnuts in the dark. The mighty mite was the smaller version of the original.
"The Profane"
George,
Good story from around 1987 or so and the old Baker stands.... Went to a military base hunt, which are notorius for, " city hunters ", as we call em down here. Got in 30 minutes before light when we saw the flashlights coming right at daylight as the city hunters were looking for a tree to climb. Watched and listend to a city hunter making enough noise for a small army assaulting a beach head get to the top of his pine tree. Did not get to see the tree later, but bet it had all it's bark peeled off cleaner than if it had been thru the sawmill !
He finally got to the top and all was quiet for about a minute when from across the growed up field I heard a loud crack, then the old familiar, "ratcheting", sound as the city hunter made his way back to the ground. I know it was not funny, but I had to laugh for just a minute imagining his ride down the pine tree. Seems like it took him 5 minutes to ratchet his way down the tree. I knew he was okay as I heard him cursing and walking back out.
I stayed in my tree all day and when I returned to the truck that night my father-in-law was talking to another hunter as I loaded my gear in the truck. I then proceeded to walk around to the back of the truck and ask my father-in-law, " Who was that half baked idiot that fell out of his tree this morning ? " The gent my father-in-law had been talking too turned and said, " It was me !!! " My father-in-law and I held on to each other to keep from falling down laughing as this poor guy had no hide left on the tip of his nose and hands. I can only laugh as it almost happened to me several times before I ditched the Baker Death Trap myself. The ride down a tree in a Baker was more exciting than any amusement park ride ever invented. :scared:
nocams
"Almost makes you want to swear, eh?"
I wasn't going to say anything, but just couldn't let this pass on deaf ears. :)
Amber got it right Profane, got one in my shed still
The "Thing"
Did it look like this >>------>
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/shepu812/mini-P8050015.jpg)
Porta-paks, or Portable Tree Stand (at least it's how the pattent is named)
Mighty Mite?
How about a pic of one? I cannot post one from this computer. Here's a link:
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/wsh/spo/1350972307.html
Well, I knew if Cliff showed up, the game would be over. :rolleyes: :) Yes, it was the Profane, by Baker. Here's the ad.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/oldearcher46/profane.jpg)
If you look at the ad carefully, you will see the guy's bow is not strung, and he's holding the limp string. My guess is he just climbed back up after a quick trip down, like many of us took on those things. I still have bark under my fingernails. :rolleyes:
He shoots, he SCORES!!
Way to go, Cliff.
Im going to call Cap Atwood to see if those rates still apply......
i saw the guarantee at a hunting store once,hanging on the wall! the stand was guaranteed to assist in the breaking of bones,scraping the hide of ones self and giving new meaning to "death from above" :thumbsup:
(DISCLAIMER: NOT SURE ABOUT THE INFO. ABOVE BUT IT SOUNDED FUNNY!!! :archer: )
What are you reading there George........that's a crossbow article!
You guys are going too laugh your tails off on this one but true as Iam sitting here banging on this keyboard, I worked out of lufin Texas for 20 years, and a fella at work had just finished up sum tree stands he built so said here you can have my baker, well off i go into the piney woods of east Texas, with my new too me baker and Bob Lee recurve, up I go Id say 20 feet , well fellas I didint even get chance too pull my bow up when I start free lancing down this tree
and I mean I was moving I quick decide to bear hug this tree, yea right, I am comming down tearing hide off my fingers tips an palms, but the worst part I tore my left nipple off, I laugh my tail off about it now, but back then it left streaks in my undies, my buddies from Texas still email me every archery season too see if my nipple ever grew back, well now at 61 I hunt from the ground mostly , but then most of my hunting has been from the ground, worst part about the entire thing is that it put a stop too
my archery season I couldint hold the bow my palms were that tore up, Yes the good ole baker
great firwood.
They should of named it "Profanity" :biglaugh:
Baker belly scraper
How would they seriously come up with a name like "Profane"?
I think every one who owned a baker has a story to tell about a rapid decent from a tree.
I rode one down, sustained minor injuries but had a very close call to being in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I took the stand home and beat it to pieces with a sledge hammer so no one else could get hurt by it.
They should have called it Fruit of the Loom wrecker.
T'was a Baker. I once was left hanging from the hand climber after the platform came off my feet and ratcheted its way down the shagbark hickory I was climbing. Was a rough ride 12 feet down for sure. :scared: :knothead:
jbuck9,
Now that's a fact, I had the same experience with One when i was about 18. Never felt comfortable in one after that and used it very little from that time on....err...well did your nipple grow back :confused:
None of you guys used safety straps? Not that it would have helped much...here's my story: I climbed about 18' up this strategically located tree, took my safety strap out of my pocket and attached one loop around the tree and one loop around me. Then I eased out of the foot straps, turned around and pulled my bow up. Got my quiver situated and an arrow on my string, and began my vigil. Everything was fine for about 5 minutes when I must have shifted my weight slightly to my heels, and my stand dropped to the bottom of the tree!! So I'm hanging up there like a sack of potatoes with the air getting squeezed out of my lungs and no one within a mile or more of me. I threw down my quiver and bow, reached around behind me and grabbed my strap and pulled myself up, wrapping my legs around that tree for all I was worth. I loosed up the strap wrapped around the tree and slid it down as low as I could, then lowered myself down a foot or so, slid the strap down again and kept repeating this until I was back on the ground. I'm lucky I was in good shape back then; if that would've happened today I probably wouldn't have had the strength to get myself turned around.
Dave
I had another name for my Baker..."@#$%^&*!"
I took a friend out who had not hunted deer, and put him in my Baker, while I hunted a hundred yards away in my Mighty Mite, which I had converted to the face-the-tree type by cutting the base in half and... anyhow, I heard his stand go ratcheting down the tree at about 10:00. I waited to see if he called out, or moaned, or anything, but didn't hear any sign of distress, so I sat a while longer. I figured he was either dead, in which case it didn't matter if I waited, or he was hurt, in which case I probably would have heard him made some noise. A little while later he showed up, and told a tale about standing up to stretch by pulling up on the hand climber. He had to hug the tree while holding the hand climber to get back down.
Those were the days!
Dan Quillian claimed to have marketed the first "climbing" kind of stand, but I don't know what he called it.
My first year as a bowhunter was 1983 and those damn things almost killed my brother and I both multiple times in the next few years after that. Thanks for the flashback George. Walking threw town you could tell all the bow hunters by the scabs on the inside of their arms from trying to hang on tight during one of those rapid descents.
That was before my time! I'm claiming prejudice!!!
-Charlie
Thats the Stand that forced me to hunt from the ground in 1975....happened to move my feet back to far and down we came..Sore ribs, bumps, bruises....yep...never again. :readit: :saywhat: :eek: