Another bank property pretty dumpy as usual but we do one a week for decent pay , same #### elevate and flatten underbrush
apparently someone hid in the bushes at one of the branches and held up someone using the ATM so now all the trees have to be cleared on all the sites good work and guaranteed pay
Got a little jacked up myself today , second job was light rain which then proceeded to pour rain and I was cutting up the trunk to load in the truck and the saw kicked out backwards and the handle hit me right on the upper thigh , didn't think that would suck as bad as it did , gotta a nice bruise and knot to remember todayToday:
Hit Tim Horton's for coffee and muffins, went to work, and on tree #1, my climber put the saw in his finger.
He was holding a branch while cutting it, one of his spurs slipped out, and he dropped a few inches in a jolt which apparently was enough to cause his still turning 200T to hit the end of his index finger on his free hand. He was about 20' up, and I lowered him down on his rope since he was unable to tie a prussic. No point in trying, really. I tended to him as best I could with the first aid kit, then off to the clinic for a first-class quick bandage job, and he just left for the hospital for stiches. Poor guy.
This is why I nag him endlessly to bring a rope with him even on smaller trees (amongst other things). He's an excellent climber with about 20 years experience, but climbers - often by their nature - are a bit full of themselves and have an "I don't need that!" frame of mind when it comes to the some of the minutia of safety and contingencies. If he didn't bring his rope with him on that small maple, the climb down would have been uncomfortable to say the least.
So y'all elitist holier-than-thou climbers best listen to your groundman when they are nagging you about something, cause they just might save your bacon one day. :msp_thumbup:
Got a little jacked up myself today , second job was light rain which then proceeded to pour rain and I was cutting up the trunk to load in the truck and the saw kicked out backwards and the handle hit me right on the upper thigh , didn't think that would suck as bad as it did , gotta a nice bruise and knot to remember today
Today:
Hit Tim Horton's for coffee and muffins, went to work, and on tree #1, my climber put the saw in his finger.
He was holding a branch while cutting it, one of his spurs slipped out, and he dropped a few inches in a jolt which apparently was enough to cause his still turning 200T to hit the end of his index finger on his free hand. He was about 20' up, and I lowered him down on his rope since he was unable to tie a prussic. No point in trying, really. I tended to him as best I could with the first aid kit, then off to the clinic for a first-class quick bandage job, and he just left for the hospital for stiches. Poor guy.
This is why I nag him endlessly to bring a rope with him even on smaller trees (amongst other things). He's an excellent climber with about 20 years experience, but climbers - often by their nature - are a bit full of themselves and have an "I don't need that!" frame of mind when it comes to the some of the minutia of safety and contingencies. If he didn't bring his rope with him on that small maple, the climb down would have been uncomfortable to say the least.
So y'all elitist holier-than-thou climbers best listen to your groundman when they are nagging you about something, cause they just might save your bacon one day. :msp_thumbup:
Got a little jacked up myself today , second job was light rain which then proceeded to pour rain and I was cutting up the trunk to load in the truck and the saw kicked out backwards and the handle hit me right on the upper thigh , didn't think that would suck as bad as it did , gotta a nice bruise and knot to remember today
Dude what the hell is that jib id feel safer rigging off a bucket
