Cut Climbing Line

[Froggy]

Well I have to say I'm pretty ticked off about cutting my climbing line today. It didn't get cut where I could have beeen killed, but it got cut where I can no longer use it everyday. Especially in tree's over 30ft. What a day. I'm so bent out of shape over this. It's a $120.00 mistake at the least. Anyone else done this?:Eye: Please share your story with me. So I can sleep better tonight!! Or else the thought of destroying my climbing line will never leave my poor mind. Thanks,BB

 

[Tim Gardner]

It happens. That is why we use a secondary tie in. My line has gotten caught between the bar and dawgs. Just a nick or two but enought to cut and resplice.

 

[ORclimber]

I hate it when that happens. I've gaffed every climb line I've owned. Nicked a few with handsaw and chainsaw too.

 

[Froggy]

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See this was on the job. I feel so bad about it. My boss is like a friend to me. He has always let me use gear I didn't have so I could do my side jobs. He helped me put together my own gear also. I feel I need to replace my line at work with my own personal line. He told me to forget about it. I even got out the new 2003 sherrills catalog and told him to pic out the rope he wanted. I've always felt that when you are working using your bosses gear that you are responsable for what happens to it. You should replace it if you dammage it. So it's hard for me to say forget about it and move on. Maybe I can take this as a good lesson and learn from my mistake, but I can't figure out why I cut it. I'm always so careful with my ropes and gear. What a day! Hopefully tomarrow will be better. As you can probably see this is really bothering me. Thanks again ,BB

PS: This was supose to go under cut climbing line. Sorry.....

 

[Stumper]

Great attitude toward your boss. On the other hand when he said forget about it.... Well, owners and employers have to figure on gear becoming damaged. You are NOT obligated, but if you were to get something for your boss in the way of a thoiughtful gift that would be nice and he sounds like the type who would appreciate it. Since he said forget the rope maybe yu could find a piece of gear that he doesn't have but could use- a Silky handsaw or a rigging block etc.etc.

 

[lync]

look at the big picture

Froggy:

Put everything in perspective. For what a climbing line costs you get a lot out of it. It holds your butt safely for pennies a day,
replace it and don't look back. Use the damaged line for lanyards and or small tree jobs. I get more use from my 70 ft line than I do from any 150 ft piece.
Your boss knows that it was an accident, period. Buy a new line and get to work.

corey

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I nailed a brand new HiVee with a chainsaw once, had two barand new crabapple ropes after that.

Knocked a polesaw out and the blade slid right down my line for about 20 ft, that one hurt!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Or maybe you could buy lunch.

It is about ability to pay and $hit happens. I'm sure he has done it at least once.

 

[Froggy]

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Jp->you always can help a man out appreciate it. lync->True and to the point. Thanks

 

[YUKON 659]

Froggy, I know the feeling...a while back I cut about 30' of from my 9/16 stable braid!!!!!! Be thankfull you didn't get hurt!!!!

Jeff

 

[Matt Follett]

What I did

Yep it happens, just be glad it happened as you say 'where you didn't get killed'

I was setting my rope with the pruners once, not watching,... the pull line got caught as I pushed the pruners up... and somehow cut the whole coil off, man I was mad, brand new Hi-Vee, was still a student working side jobs to get through school, bla bal no money bla bla, but I thought, hey that was my lesson... It kinda made me respect my line a bit more too.

Don't bum your self out over it. Your boss sounds pretty relaxed and really the cost of a line is not HUGE in the general cost of doing business, IMO...

Last year one of my new guys was cutting up a rigged limb on the ground and 'old faithful', my first lowering line which had be retired to a light duty tag line got cut up,... then I was sad...not at the loss of a 'valuable rope' but that line was an old friend, We still have it in the kit bag though, tied it together with a double fisherman's looks kinda 'getto' but like I say it's a friend even if it does smell bad

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I recently screwed up a bid on a willow removal. getting it down I had the time right, but I was 5 hours off on getting the wood out and dumped.

 

[Stumper]

John, I'd almost bet that over an hour of your extra 5 was tied up in raking the 40 bejillion broken twigs and scraps of bark. --I don't know how many times I've failed to factor in extra clean-up time on some species. It isn't that I don't know it will happen, I just get caught up in figuring the "hard" stuff and forget about the little stuff that I have to do also!.
My biggest problem in bidding comes from approaching a job thinking --What can I do this for?" as opposed to thinking " What could I get for this?":alien:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

1. not figuring 2 loads, one of chips one of logs. This made it so we could not finnish up that night, adding to the travel times.

2. mostly it was underestimating the time and effort of hauling out the massive chunks of trunk. We forwarded them out with truck and pulley, then loaded them onto dump the next day with truck and pullies.

The work area was reather samll and right next to a trashy revine so I was able to dump tarps onto the slope to get rid of the small stuff.

I've joked for years that big wood can kill a buget. Gotta remember to lsiten to my own blatherings.

 

[arborman]

i had a ground man from a landscape company i was doing some work for cut my rope.. i didnt see it happen.. and there is no way to say for sure he did it and i didnt while up in a tree or i would have asked for money from the owner.. but i just kept my mouth shut about it.. but it was not a happy day .. and i really dont think i cut it myself.. the same guy i think might have done it was sharpening my saw trying to be nice and had no clue what he was doing and was filing back and forth across my teeth.. i heard that happening from up a tree.. bye the time i heard it it was to late..
some peoples kids i tell ya.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The only climbing line that I have ever cut was a two day old piece. The wind came up and blew the line across my saw. Nipped a divit out of it. Bummer!!!

I've boogered lines by sticking a climbing spike in them.

Climbing lines are normal wear and tear, replacement tools. As long as the nick was an accident and not some completely bone headed goof up, don't worry about it. I can find uses for old lines down to about eight feet. I like getting the oink out of the pig!

Tom

 

[MasterBlaster]

Why is it allways the new line that gets hurt? I don't think I've EVER damaged an old rope- ever!

Brand- new ropes attract sharp objects. Beware! Just like new chipper blades attract rocks, and dead wood. And theres never enough gas in your saw to make the last cut that gets you outta the tree! And, oh, I'll stop. This could go on forever!

Yur boss sounds like a good guy, Froggy. Create a good team and learn all you can. The only thing worse than cutting your rope is dropping your saw.

DON'T drop yur saw!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

'bout 8 years ago I had a lanyard fail and an 020t it the concrete.

broke the aluminum case...bout $400 in repair. Near the price of a new saw!!

 

[SilverBlue]

Oh what a crappy day. First on of my customers decided to get another company to remove a hazard tree (after I alerted her to the trunk rot) and then ol’ faithful blue streak gets nipped by my 26. Ohh happy happy joy joy.

Anyone have a spare 150 ft of Fly they don’t want? :angel: