Roadrunner,
Why not use both? Especially since this is "family" land (I read this to mean private land). Set up several ladder stands or lock-on stands in likely areas you find during summer scouting. This way the deer will have become used to them when hunting season comes around, and you won't be making big disturbances in the woods too close to opening day. Later, during the season, as the deer patterns change, because of the rut, or changing food sources, use your climber in combination with which ever of your "permanent" stands that are hottest. I like to stay flexible, and mobile, and rarely hunt the exact same stand more than two days in a row. Even if you are in a good hot spot, moving your stand, say 50 yds., can help keep the deer from patterning you. I believe deer do learn to skirt around permanent stands if they are hunted too much, and will sometimes hunt my climber just out of visual range of a permanent stand to try and catch them doing this, (This is also a perfect setup for hunting with my 13 year old son, keeping him close by. I try to put him in the stand I believe is most likely to see action.)
Personaly, I do not like homemade wooden ladder stands. I like lock-on stands. You can buy three or four of them (from a source like The Sportsman's Guide, or Cabellas') for the price of a good climber. Then, I use portable ladder steps called Rapid Rails. These are light sectional ladder segments which are easily, quickly, and quietly fastened to the tree, at whichever stand I wish to hunt. This method works well on a lease or private land where it is safe to leave your stands in place. On public land, I use my climbing stand. Mine is a homemade, all welded aluminum stand with the best features borrowed from many manufacturers, and some innovations of my own. For instance, it was originally designed to be a rifle stand, where the hunter sits facing the tree. With a few modifications, it becomes a great bowhunting stand, by reversing the top and bottom peices. Then, after I have killed a deer, a bolt on wheel assembly, on the top half of my stand, transforms it into a deer hauling cart. Not to brag, folks, but it has been used more than once, to haul out two deer at a time, or a deer and a hog, together, when my hunting buddy and I were both successful. Maybe one day I'll post more details about my climber. I've hunted from it for close to twenty years now and wouldn't trade it for any other stand on the market. There may be some more comfortable stands nowdays, but mine is rock solid in any tree I climb, quieter than any other I've tried, and I feel safe in it. Always use a good safety harness with any type of tree stand.
Good luck.