My father in law has one that Ive hunted out of prob a dozen times. The weight makes it nice. However it aint overly comfortable. I feel like its real secure on the tree since it has the hinged arms to self level and it has straps from one arm to other to sinch it to the tree. So safety wise its good. One last thing if you get one and are somewhat broad like me you need to use bigger trees other wise the arms sinch up to the tree and make it real narrow. If their high end climbers w/the real seats are comfortable without adding too much wgt Id say go that route and have a near perfect stand.