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Putting tree stands in white pine
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08/23/22 11:05 PM
08/23/22 11:05 PM
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It makes it nice for hiding & for installing tree steps, but the pitch seems almost unbearable. I might try a red or jackpine instead. I don't know what you all do but I had one spot where I wrapped some fabric around the tree so I didn't get my back all pitchy. I expect to get dirty when I'm in the woods but sometimes some of these white pines can be almost too much..
Last edited by AJE; 08/23/22 11:10 PM.
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Re: Putting tree stands in white pine
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08/24/22 10:26 AM
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This fat child won't hang a stand in a pine.
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Re: Putting tree stands in white pine
[Re: AJE]
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08/24/22 12:51 PM
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strap on ladder = way easier than screw in steps
and no way to break them off and leave metal in tree
pitch is a pain some camo canvas wrapped around secured with a couple more straps
or old ratty beat up not water tight GI ponchos might serve well in this if you can get them cheap
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Re: Putting tree stands in white pine
[Re: AJE]
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08/24/22 02:52 PM
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Pitch or sap can get on everything once it starts to leak LOL. I remember putting a bear stand in a balsam fir and in my infinite wisdom while waiting for Mr Bear to come in one evening I starting popping the sap bubbles. Well I paid for that dearly many times over as my climb up and down a few times made everything I had/wore being covered in sap-stupid move but lesson learned-DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!
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Re: Putting tree stands in white pine
[Re: AJE]
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08/24/22 02:59 PM
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It makes it nice for hiding & for installing tree steps, but the pitch seems almost unbearable. I might try a red or jackpine instead. I don't know what you all do but I had one spot where I wrapped some fabric around the tree so I didn't get my back all pitchy. I expect to get dirty when I'm in the woods but sometimes some of these white pines can be almost too much.. One of the best pine tar removers is WD-40 in case you do build in the pines.
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Re: Putting tree stands in white pine
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08/24/22 04:18 PM
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Best stand I ever had was in a 55-60 year old Scotch pine..........then it just up and died. It was pretty "pitchy". But not like a white. If a white was the tree I needed to be in....... I'd darned sure be in it. I'd wrap the trunk where I'd be standing with garbage bags or garden black plastic and then some sort of camo or earth-tone fabric. WD-40 takes off pitch. But Goo-Gone is a little friendlier and every bit as effective. This time of year (trimming time at the Christmas tree farm) I keep a spray bottle of Goo-Gone on the shelf in the shower.
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