I spent about three hours in this stand last night and
it is a real winner. Talk about easy and quick to go up the tree then get down out of it.
At first I was sitting on the upper part while climbing but after being in the tree decided that might put too much strain on the upper part so going down I used the bottoms of my fore arms on the sides.
this was my first stand with cables and it was kinda weird making sure they came up while the parts were moving but no problem.
man, talk about comfortable....I have no reservations about nodding off (which I did a few times) in this stand. I laid my rifle across the rails and kicked back. All I needed was a heater (and some deer to show up)