API Outdoors Bowhunter - Treestand Component Assembly and Setup; Safe Climbing and Descending Procedures

ATTENTION!! WHEN YOU SEE A “ WARNING!” BE SURE TO HEED THE MESSAGE!
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THESE MESSAGES CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!!
READ THIS MANUAL IN ITS ENTIRETY PRIOR TO USING THIS PRODUCT(S).
This instruction manual complies with the Treestand Manufacturers Association’s TMS 04 - Standard Practice for Treestand Instructions and TMS 02 - Standard Test Method for Treestand Fall Arrest Systems.
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CLIMBING UP:
WARNING! 


at heights above ground-level. Failure to follow these instructions may result in serious injury or death!
WARNING! STOP NOW!  full-body fall-arrest harness! Failure to follow these instructions may result in serious injury
or death!
WARNING!           
platform at heights above the ground. Failure to follow these instructions may result in serious injury or death!
WARNING! 

WARNING! This  

injury or death!
WARNING! NEVER
or death!
STEP 1. 
may incumber your ability to climb safely up or down.
STEP 2. With your
 climbing treestand assembled in strict accordance with the previous instruction, you’re now ready to install it on the tree. Attach
the standing platform to the tree by placing the chain/climbing cable around the tree and slip it into the main frame bar securing it with the snap pin (Model


CLIMBING INSTRUCTIONS
CINCHING STRAP/FOOT STRAP INSTRUCTIONS
SEAT CUSHION INSTRUCTIONS
Foot Entrance
Heel Cord
Foot Section
Support
Cinching Straps/
Foot Straps
Frame Bar
Tube Plug
Coated Steel Chain
Snap Pin
Snap Pin
Thread the ends of the 4 straps through the 4 separate male end
buckles
facing up, wrap the assembled straps around the mainframe of the seat
section Fig. 2.
Male
End
Buckle
Seat
Section
Top View
Attached Seat Cushion
Male
End
Buckle
Seat
Section
Top View
Attached Seat Cushion
Fig. 1
Fig. 1A
Fig. 1
2. After reading the
instructions for Fig.
1, attach cinching
straps/foot straps
as shown in Fig. 1A.
1. Feed the open end of the cinching strap/foot strap
slot 1. Loop over the top and
slot 2 
STEP for the other cinching strap/foot strap (Fig. 1).
Foot Entrance
Heel Cord
Foot Section
Support
Cinching Straps/
Foot Straps
1
2
Foot Straps and Heel Cord installed
Loop
End
S-Hook
HEEL CORD INSTRUCTIONS
1. Starting in the middle of the foot platform, wrap the loop end of the heel
cord around outside edge of foot platform (Fig. 1).
2. Thread the S-hook end through the loop end and stretch heel cord across
the top of the foot platform to the other side. (Fig. 1).
3.Wrap the S-hook end around the outside edge of the foot platform and
attach the S-Hook around the heel cord to secure (Fig. 2).
Loop
End
S-Hook
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
Foot
Platform

Cord
Fig. 2