okay so today this is my review of the guide gear 13 foot tripod stand and it
comes in two big boxes just like this pay no attention partly to the fact that
these boxes are gonna be damaged a lot during shipment
I found that everything inside was still in pretty decent shape just gonna cut it
open here and show you kind of a step-by-step of how to put it together
and my thoughts are about it all the parts are just tossed in the box where
these are the legs on the right and of course the platform here on the left and
this is how it comes didn't notice any damage and of course there's a bag of
nuts and bolts here and a DVD that is full of safety Guide tips and so on
follow all of their safety and warning restrictions and guidelines before using
your tree stand of course and just give me a close-up of some of the workmanship
here you know they welded some nuts on here for the platform that's the
shooting rail and I'm gonna dump out all the bolts I highly suggest to organize
these nuts and bolts ahead of time everything is in metric reference so by
lining them up you'll know which bolts are needed where these instructions are
very sparse so partly why I made this video is to show you how I went about
putting it together very basic schematics in here and they reference of
course the part numbers which are on the last page and again why I recommend that
you lay out your nut some bolts ahead of time
make sure you have all your parts because they have the exact amount of
nuts and bolts don't lose anything out here so that's why I'm setting it all up
here in the cardboard to make sure I have high contrast and I want to drop it
into the grass and lose something and notice the very top center there's one
little bolt that is different from all the others and that's for your seat all
the others will be pretty obvious as you get going here I remember by lining them
up it as the quantities but I've found that even the quantity listings here are
wrong sometimes it'll say you need five for example number 21 and you only have
three of them and everything is 13 millimeters so the nuts the bolts
everything 13 millimeters get yourself a wrench and get ready to go here of
course put together the stanchion top first and that's the way it's described
the course of the procedure there put that together sit on the ground keep the
bolts loose for now your longest bolts of course go through the seat tripod on
the side here at this seat rotates 360 degrees the back bends forward and back
and of course there's a pad that comes with it which i think is pretty
lightweight I found this not uncomfortable to sit on
even without the pads so I'm probably not going to use it here's your shooting
rail this is height adjustable so I'm showing it here on the lowest setting
and then of course it's just four bolts in the corners this is not gonna hold
you up if you flip out of this thing I plan to use this not for hunting I'm
actually gonna put a bee box on top of it and use this to attract swarms so I
thought thirteen feet would be a great height here we're showing it from
underneath and again the longest bolts go through these first pieces here to
that top platform laying it on the side makes it really easy to put these things
together of course the ladder portion comes out the front and close-up here of
the struts that go side to side and I found that even though the illustration
said to put them in those top holes I found that they only fit really in the
bottom holes and once you get those in there you can
tighten everything up because this triangle configuration here they want
you to leave things hand tight up until this point just go ahead and cinch them
up after that now what I did is I just set it up so that the top leg was the
one I'm assembling and then I just flipped it over again when I go to the
next leg instead of trying to work with them on the ground it just flips pretty
easily here and then just put the next leg in and bolt them up again it's
pretty obvious which bolts will go in here the bolts were exactly long enough
to do the job here and here it is all together absent the adjustment legs which
are at the very bottom and have a flat flange welded onto them and as I said
before just bolt everything up nice and snug now before you set it up I think
it's pretty decent tube steel the paint finish seems okay a nice grid at the top
they're not super heavy but heavy enough now we've got the feet already on it
just walk it down from the platform end and you'll be able to stand this up I
did this whole thing by myself without any assistance so I just wanted to see
if that's possible there are telescoping adjustments at the
bottom they can add a couple of feet of height to this thing as far as a height
goes this thing is only nine feet tall from the bottom of the legs to that foot
platform there at the top so by calling it a 13 foot tripod stand they must be
going from the feet to the top of that shooting reel up there because it really
is only nine feet if you extend the legs as far as they can go you can make it
ten and a half feet so here's the adjustment leg you know they adjust
individually so you can adapt to uneven ground you could put this on a slope for
example and they come with these nice long and heavy-duty anchor spikes that
you can drive in there are holes in the foot flanges there to accommodate that
and here's the top platform again I'll assembled all finish and again I have
the shooting rail at the lowest because I'm gonna put a honeybee box on
top of this and I'm just gonna show you how wobbly it is I weigh 200 pounds so
I'm gonna not treat it easily here I'm just going to show you how much it
flexes there is a flip up access there on that platform that I am NOT going to
use I'm just gonna climb over it and give it a little twist here and show you
how now that looks really wobbly but I'm actually pretty confident in the way
it's built you can turn it 360 degrees drink your coffee raise that rail of
course if you wanted to to rest your arms on it if you're the shooter again
I'm using this for honeybees but now I'm gonna wiggle it on my way down I want to
show you how how much flex to expect I mean it's not going to be absolutely
rigid but I got no feeling that it was not gonna hold up thanks for watching
the video that hope you found it helpful