Ghillie
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I made a horrible mistake last Sunday morning. I split a white oak limb between me and my safety lanyard. Here are some pictures, I had to cut my layard to get myself out of it. I had a climbing line set high in the tree as a TIP, and the lanyard was around the limb I was working on.
From where my finger is to where the distel hitch rests in the picture is how far the hitch slid as the limb split and pulled me tight against it. After everything came to rest. I could not releave any tension and had to cut the lanyard.
This is a picture of my right D ring. It is deformed. The left one is gouged but not bent, it was the hip that had the distel on it.
I am usually very aware of the possibility of a split and do not expose myself to this sort of thing happening.
I attribute my mistake to a couple of things. I was just finshing up an 80 hour week between trees and the Fire Dept., I was tired and should have taken things a little slower. Things were not going at the pace I was expecting so I made the decision to go a little bigger on my drops to make room for the limbs I had to rig down.
From where my finger is to where the distel hitch rests in the picture is how far the hitch slid as the limb split and pulled me tight against it. After everything came to rest. I could not releave any tension and had to cut the lanyard.
This is a picture of my right D ring. It is deformed. The left one is gouged but not bent, it was the hip that had the distel on it.
I am usually very aware of the possibility of a split and do not expose myself to this sort of thing happening.
I attribute my mistake to a couple of things. I was just finshing up an 80 hour week between trees and the Fire Dept., I was tired and should have taken things a little slower. Things were not going at the pace I was expecting so I made the decision to go a little bigger on my drops to make room for the limbs I had to rig down.
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