Doing it wrong

[Ranchero50]

http://www.mojoflix.com/Video/Catapulted-From-The-Tree.html

Not really sure what was going on, but watch and cringe...

Jamie

 

[04ultra]

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[l2edneck]

My thoughts on what he did wrong?Too much slack!!!!!oh n a buck strap usually helps.

 

[OTG BOSTON]

Looks to me like the groung guy didn't have a good grasp on how to run lines.

A similar thing happed to me a few weeks ago. I wasn't using a lowering line, and had a buttstrap so the catapult action wasn't quite enough to knock me outta my spikes.

My undercut wasn't deep enough on the top, so the tree bucked back , then foreward, that back

 

[(WLL)]

wrong cut i would have ripped over 2 avoid that mess:deadhorse:

 

[kkottemann]

A little less top never hurts.

 

[(WLL)]

A little less top never hurts.

climber was parallel to his climbing line this would have been hard but a little less top never hurts still i would have ripped over slowly to avoid sudden jolt:monkey: rope man had 2 much slack and climber should have saw this but i dont think he will do that again

 

[beowulf343]

Lanyards-a great little invention for these situations!

 

[Grace Tree]

I downloaded it to get a better look. Looks like it went when he was making his undercut and he was trying to recover the stuck saw instead of bailing out.
Phil

 

[gumneck]

How about the first top he took off. Looked a little risky to me considering size of it and proximity to house and the boat.

 

[Canyon Angler]

How about the first top he took off. Looked a little risky to me considering size of it and proximity to house and the boat.

Looked to me like that first one HIT the boat! umpkin2:

 

[Sprig]

Holy crsap!!!!!! Fool's luck if ever eh, whatta morooon, surprized he has any teeth left *cringe cringe*, that was worth the dial-up wait, nice find and a sure candidate for future Darwin Awards *cringe again* Yikes!

opcorn: waiting for part two opcorn:

 

[Husky137]

Some people are too stupid to be scared.

 

[Sprig]

Some people are too stupid to be scared.

No kidding, you read my kid's mind, two little girls here watched it (both 8), their comments were "Oh man is he ok?" Me:yes surprizingly. "What an idiot dad!". Still laughing to myself, and actually thankfull for the guy's survival, that could have been really, really ugly esp. if he'd caught the saw. I sometimes sit in wonderment at how others live so long.....GAH!

 

[Husky137]

I sometimes sit in wonderment at how others live so long.....GAH!

They don't know any better. I often wondered if stupid people know they are stupid or if they just go through life in blissful ignorance. I've come to believe the latter to be true.

 

[treesquirrel]

Here here

Lanyards-a great little invention for these situations!

Yep, I'd have been tied in tight and avoided the toss and subsequent inversion.

Sure glad he was OK, as far as I can tell.

 

[beezer]

Stuart Vick sures sounds a lot like................Stupid _ick (fill in the blank, it might be a "d")


Beezer

 

[soutz]

.:yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: lucky, lucky,lucky guy