We think the most important piece of hunting equipment you can take into the woods is a safety harness that’s certified to meet the TMA standards for harnesses / treestands. That’s why we’ve devoted as much of our engineering expertise to developing our Seat-O-The-Pants line of safety harnesses as we have to developing treestands. Once again, our design principles of Safety, Comfort, Silence and Concealment guided the development of these must-have safety products.

SAFETY: Seat-O-The-Pants harnesses are safe because their tangle-free design makes them easy to put on – even in the dark – so hunters are more likely to use them. With a four-point full-body design that’s completely adjustable for a secure, comfortable fit, the leg straps are configured to prevent groin injury in the event of a fall. Each safety harness includes a lineman-style climbing rope and prussic hitch that helps to maintain continuous contact with the tree to protect you from falls as you climb.

COMFORT: All Summit treestand safety harnesses are lightweight, durable and won’t interfere with your shooting.  Convenient slides make it easy to adjust every strap for a perfect fit so they never bind or pull or otherwise feel uncomfortable or impede your movements.

SILENT: All metal components (d-rings, leg buckles) are rubber coated so they’re 100% silent in the woods.

CONCEALED: Seat-O-The-Pants safety harnesses offer complete camouflage concealment.

ROPE SYSTEM
Summit’s Treestand Safety Rope Climbing System is another innovative breakthrough in treestand convenience and safety.

The strong, 30’ braided nylon climbing rope features a pre-attached prussic hitch, which clips to your safety harness tether. The prusik hitch can then be slid up the rope while you climb to your stand, or slid back down as you descend — yet it will clinch tight in the event of a slip or a fall.

This system adds an important safety component to your hunt during those critical periods when you are not seated or standing safely in your stand. The oversized rope, clip and carabineer are also easy to use when wearing gloves.

Features to Look for In a New Safety Harness
There’s a lot of thought and engineering that goes into a good treestand safety harness, and the best subscribe to the time-proven KISS (keep it simple, stupid) principle. At Summit, we try to make everything as simple as possible — but never TOO simple. And that especially goes for our Seat-O-The-Pants Safety Harnesses.

1. Tangle-Free Design: A safety harness doesn’t do you any good if you aren’t wearing it, which is why we pioneered tangle-free designs with our SOP harnesses so they’d be easy to put on and take off. Our standard SOP harness features a handy fanny pack to store your straps when you aren’t wearing the harness. With our FastBack harnesses, all you have to do is pick them up by the tether, and the harness is ready to slip on just like a vest.

2. Lightweight & Comfortable: Vest-style harnesses look easy to put on and take off, but that’s often the best part about them. Many are heavy, hot, bulky and uncomfortable to wear — especially over a couple of layers of fleece and an outer shell. SOP harnesses are almost weightless, and once they’re on, you almost forget they are there. SOP harnesses are also designed to be worn either over or underneath your hunting garments — a handy feature for cold-weather hunting when you want to rig up back in camp.

3. Safety: That’s why you wear them, right? Our SOP harnesses quickly and easily adjust for a perfect fit so there’s no binding or pinching, which is especially important if you fall. Plus, our tether straps feature sewn-in break-away pleats which pop open to lessen the shock of a serious fall, so you stay awake and alert.

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