MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
Igetbisy's near mishap the other day, along with Erik's comment, made me think. Stupid mistakes we've all made doing treework, what are some storys? I've had my share, hmmmmmm...
I've twice set-up my bucket truck without using any outriggers. The 2nd time I went almost full-up before I noticed it.
After putting a climber in the tree with a bucket, I proceeded to pick up the outriggers, and drive out of the kill zone. At maybe 15 feet of movement I noticed in the passenger side mirror the climber's line had been sucked up into the outrigger. I stopped real quick.
I once barber-chaired a med-size pine tree. It split up 10 feet and hung there. That wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that this was a co-dominant two-leader pine. I wuz standing in the crotch.
I KNOW somebody's had THIS happen; I was roping a limb with the same type rope I was climbing with. I asked the groundie if he had it, he said yes. I didn't really look at him. GUESS what happened???
Alright, thats it. Everything else I've done is pure perfection.
Not really, but this is all I can think off at the moment.
Anybody else?
I've twice set-up my bucket truck without using any outriggers. The 2nd time I went almost full-up before I noticed it.
After putting a climber in the tree with a bucket, I proceeded to pick up the outriggers, and drive out of the kill zone. At maybe 15 feet of movement I noticed in the passenger side mirror the climber's line had been sucked up into the outrigger. I stopped real quick.
I once barber-chaired a med-size pine tree. It split up 10 feet and hung there. That wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that this was a co-dominant two-leader pine. I wuz standing in the crotch.
I KNOW somebody's had THIS happen; I was roping a limb with the same type rope I was climbing with. I asked the groundie if he had it, he said yes. I didn't really look at him. GUESS what happened???
Alright, thats it. Everything else I've done is pure perfection.
Not really, but this is all I can think off at the moment.
Anybody else?