How far did ya jump
My business partner is a tough s.o.b. but he is deathly afraid of snakes. Few years back we were taking down a hollow silver maple over a house. We had the tips of a limb tied off, over the guy's patio in the back yard. probably 12, 14 inch diameter limb
So he's climbing, and me and 1 other buddy are ground guys. He starts cutting the limb at the trunk, and we hold the rope. And then blood starts spraying down all over the patio. I thought, oh crap, he cut himself with the saw so I was yelling, and he's looking around to see what i'm yelling about.
As he finished the cut the hollow limb swung up on end, and a huge black snake fell out onto the patio. It was all cut into pieces, the saw cut had gone right through it and all the pieces were wiggling around on the concrete in different directions lol
Just about then he realized how big, the snake was and that it had been up there in the tree with him all morning...... I've never seen anybody come down out of a tree so fast in my life
We still laugh with him about that day, 10 years later