Spurious argument, the risk is not as great. Though in heavy traffic, and foul weather I most certainly do drive like that.
How do you figure? Have you been in traffic lately?
Our perception due to the comfort of redundant routine leads us to believe that two vehicles with a closing speed of up to 140+ mph that manage to just miss each other, even "x" amount of times in "light traffic" is something to caress the wheel about. Yet some people won't fly even though it is still one of the safest ways to travel.
If he can bump the bucket down a few feet it is better on his body and on his overall risk profile.
Perhaps, if he has a bad back, but I'll bet he's used to it and looks to be in good physical condition.
Pushing the boundaries on occasion is not a bad thing, but for it to be SOP is flirtin' with disaster.
In my opinion, we flirt with greater disaster when we step into traffic, for example. He's just leaning out a little and he's doubtlessly secured with belt and leg pressure. Still, no one wants to flop out anyway. In that line of work, no pun intended, He's used to reaching out of the bucket due to many restrictions and if you ask him about this as flirting with disaster, he'll laugh. His risk profile is off the charts daily...leaning a bit out the old bucket is hardly in league with the rest of his day.
My stance on this site is not complete Z133 compliance, but an awareness of ones habits and how often one introduces unnecessary risk into the daily routine.
For one, if you are in such practice, it probably is safer as a result. However, if this isn't a habit, then the risk factor has the potential to be greater for lack of experience, familiarity, and/or physical fitness. "How often" isn't always a factor, and is in no wise alone in calculating risk, or compound risk probability.
For example, if you've been running a chainsaw with knowledge and skill everyday for years accident free, it doesn't mean that your odds increase every day that you'll have a mishap. There are many factors and the probability is relative to such.
In contrast, HO buys a chainsaw, cause he's sick of getting "ripped off" by tree people.
He is an engineer, (that means he's smart) and reads the direction and warnings before firing up the new poulan to drop that old oak out back of the new property.
opcorn:
Whose risk profile is greater?
Oh and
unnecessary risk is somewhat of a relative term in certain context.
If you have a scenario where you cannot complete the job safely without doing this, then the brief exposure to risk is ok. I am not putting it on the same level as standing on the lip of the bucket.
Naturally, now if he was really hotdoggin and had one foot out of the bucket and one hand on the saw while waving with the other, then I'd say something altogether different. But he appears to be a professional risk profile analyst and a pretty good operator too.
If you have one or two cuts like this to do to avoid resetting the truck, most of us would lean out.
IMO to lean like this to avoid moving the boom is silly, it is unsafe and uncomfortable. "ow, my back did not like that!"
Silly to some, quicker to others. Some would say moving the boom 3 times as much is silly, while others say safer.
Nevertheless, you won't catch me leaning out like that all day either, but I'll reach everything that I can before moving and often I'm well out of the bucket…..well, in the morning anways.
