Swamp public land-climber vs lock on?

Plenty of pine trees?

Why do you need a pole ladder? Why not get some muzzy or lone wolf sticks? Price?

If it's truly a thick swamp and you have plenty of cover with no reason to get super high, I would prefer a loc on. But if you need to get higher with less cover I'd go climber.

Can't do it on public land, but when I used to deer hunt, I had a 6.5lb lock on and a pair of climbing spurs that I would strap to the stand. Added backpack straps and hike to wherever I was hunting. Climb the tree with the spurs, attach a rope to bow or gun, climb the tree with the stand hanging from my side, hang the stand in 3 minutes, pull up the weapon and hunt.

All you really need is 2 sticks if you are truly hunting a cypress type swamp. Just get yourself 6-8 feet off the ground in a tree with thick cover. Getting high is mostly for when there's no leaves on the tree, swamps usually have enough evergreen's that's never an issue.

I mean 2 sticks or even 3, and a easy hang loc on and you can be hunting in 2 minutes easy peasy. Not even BS'ing that time, I have a lone wolf sticks and stand and you can hang that with 2 sticks in under a minute if I didn't care about sweating and noise. They are fast as crap. No real need for a harness at 8 feet either, I know I may deserve grief for that but so be it. I always wear it in my climber but I'm usually going 15-25 ft.

Just position yourself in the right trees where you are unlikely to have deer right under or really close to you, keep the trails 25 yards away and you are good to go. There's tons of swamp trees that I could almost dance in the stand with so much cover they'd never see you.