Removing background leaves bits around part of image?

I have an image of a tripod that I want to key the background out of so I use the Magic Eraser Tool at various different tolerance levels and it leaves a bit of background around parts of the legs. If I boost it too much it erases part of the legs. What is the best way to handle this?
Thanks.

Sorry, unclear wording.
I meant the Pen Tool, which in the Options Bar can be set to »Add to path area«, thus subPathItems (the individual paths in one Path in the Paths Panel) created with it will not intersect, but add to one another.
With objects like the one you posted I like to avoid having to set a corner point at the intersection of the segments and drag the bezier handles, but rather create a Path for one of the elements and then command-alt-click-and-drag it to duplicate and offset it so as to fit the next segment – repeating and adapting as often as needed.
This Path can then be used as a Vector Mask (see the previous screenshot).
But just painting a regular Layer Mask might be faster …
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