treeclimber 165

[georgia]

How did you injure yourself last year?

 

[treeclimber165]

I wish I could say that it was some magnificant complicated job, but it wasn't. Small tree- 50' Sycamore- I was in a rush to knock off a few dead limbs before lunch. When I tossed up my rope I got it over the wrong limb. Instead of WASTING TIME pulling it out and re-setting it, I went up anyway. I was 18' off the ground when the limb popped off. Landed on my 'pride'
It's not the huge complicated climbs where you get in trouble. You mentally prepare for those. The mundane routine stuff is where you forget to think about safety 100%.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

It's not the huge complicated climbs where you get in trouble. You mentally prepare for those. The mundane routine stuff is where you forget to think about safety 100%. [/B]

Aint that the truth, Ive herad some stat's on the trade and it seems that injury/death spikes around 7-9 years of experiance.

Most of my "close ones" have been like friday end of day last cut syndrome.

 

[sonny]

I never put chain saws in the hands of employees on Mondays.Always set up prunning jobs. Never removals. But it always seemed injurys happened on the easy jobs.