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Just Starting Out - How am I most likely to hurt myself?
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<blockquote data-quote="tankman" data-source="post: 7740033" data-attributes="member: 184379"><p>Never use your climbing line for anything other than climbing, no pulling trees with it, no lowering limbs with it, nothing but climbing with it.</p><p>When topping a tree try to make sure you are tied off/ wrapped under a limb nub that will keep your climbing rope from flipping over the top of the trunk if the tree shakes as the top breaks loose from the trunk. </p><p>I witnessed a guy on a ladder topping a tree and his climbing line was tied above the ladder, instead of under the top rung. The trunk shook as the top fell causing slack in his line going around the tree and it flipped up over where he cut the tree and he fell to the ground busting up his back pretty bad. Luckily he didn’t fall on the saw that he dropped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tankman, post: 7740033, member: 184379"] Never use your climbing line for anything other than climbing, no pulling trees with it, no lowering limbs with it, nothing but climbing with it. When topping a tree try to make sure you are tied off/ wrapped under a limb nub that will keep your climbing rope from flipping over the top of the trunk if the tree shakes as the top breaks loose from the trunk. I witnessed a guy on a ladder topping a tree and his climbing line was tied above the ladder, instead of under the top rung. The trunk shook as the top fell causing slack in his line going around the tree and it flipped up over where he cut the tree and he fell to the ground busting up his back pretty bad. Luckily he didn’t fall on the saw that he dropped. [/QUOTE]
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