Treestand seat belts?

[Electrodigical]

Watching all the saddle hunting videos the last couple years started to pique my interest. I thought it would be good for me since access was always questionable, they ability to setup a stand well ahead of time wasn't there, so I thought it might be the answer.

But last year in an effort to see if I could physically even bow hunt anymore I put up a hang on stand near the cabin. Just the time spent in my repelling harness putting up the sticks and the stand told me there was no way I'd be able to saddle hunt for very long. I'd be lucky to make it an hour.

 

[BenA]

I use a saddle a good bit. I've been using them since there was one or two on the market, then nothing, then it blew up. I've gone through a few. I hunt ladder stands with my kids and/or wife often. I'll hang in my saddle behind them. I like them in place of lock on stands because I only need the tree setup to climb. Instead of having multiple stands around, I climb up and sit in my saddle. It weighs practically nothing, barely more than a harness. Instead of climbing up and hooking a harness up, I just hook my saddle up.