Patent ID: 7891465

Claim:
A tree stand comprising: a platform having a hollow tubular frame member, one end of said tubular frame member being open so as to expose the hollow interior thereof, there being a plurality of holes through one surface of said tubular frame member communicating with its hollow interior, each of said holes having the same size, and said holes being uniformly spaced the same distance from each other so that a front end of each hole is a same predetermined distance from a back end of its next most adjacent hole, and the hole of any pair of adjacent holes that is closest to said open end of said tubular frame member being designated as a first hole and the hole of such pair of adjacent holes that is farther from said open end being designated as a second hole; a plurality of pins dimensioned to slide through said holes into and out of the interior of said tubular frame member; an elongated flexible component for encircling the trunk of a tree and holding said tree stand against the tree; a first end of said flexible component being slidable into said open end of said tubular frame member and through said tubular frame member for leveling said frame as a climber moves up or down a tree, an opposite end of said flexible component being connected to said frame of said tree stand; a block secured to said first end of said flexible component for holding and leveling said frame, said block being dimensioned to slide through said tubular frame member, said block being longer than said distance spacing said holes from each other, there being an elongated slot in said block having a first end and a second end, said elongated slot being at least as long as said predetermined distance spacing the front end of each hole of any pair of adjacent holes from the back end of its next most adjacent hole so that a pair of said pins are insertable at the same time into two adjacent first and second holes in said tubular frame member, said first hole having a first pin therein and said second hole having a second pin therein; and removal of said first pin from said first hole of a pair of adjacent holes enabling a tree climber to level said tree stand by sliding the block through said tubular frame member until said first end of said elongated slot contacts said second pin and at the same time aligns said second end of said elongated slot with the next hole adjacent to said second hole for insertion of said first pin thereinto, whereby at least one of said pins extends through said tubular frame member and into said flexible component block at all times so as to prevent accidental falling of said tree stand.