Doc, I im glad u mentioned that, there is so much stress on stands when they are attached to different trees. We had a big red oak that split into 4 big trunks. We attached a permanent stand to it only using one of the trucks, had we used 3 or 4 that stand would have been an accident waiting to happen. Lurk maybe look at using the tree that splits into three but try using making it off one. Just a thought.