Don't Trust Wrotten Beach

[Col2y]

i was doing a few removals about a week ago on my birthday no less, the last tree was a large tub-o-garbage beach. while turning the tip of a limb away from the house it was overhanging, the hinge broke off sideways, the rope landed on the stub where i had just finished my cut and slipped of towards me and landed on my lanyard putting the full weight of the limb down into my left knee, dislocating it and shearing off the "tab"(there's probably a technical term for it) that sits on the top of my shin bone. so Im going for a cat scan in about an hour to see whether they have to put a screw in it or not.


so i went home to the farm for the week and forgot how much i hate the city life. I've always had, in the back of my head the idea that i should open a company around home and get out of Toronto but a week thinking about it i'm going to put a pre-lim business plan together so ill be picking your brains to see if its worth my while.

thanks guys

 

[treevet]

Like you I hate the city but you can't make the big buck in the country.

 

[tree md]

My first really large removal was a HUGE Beech, around a hundred feet, prolly the same size crown and prolly 5' DBH. The guy who taught me to climb went up, brushed it out, set a bull line and sent me up to swing limb logs. My first cut was on a limb log that was about two feet diameter and around 12' long. I made a bad cut and the exact same thing happened to me as did you. I stood up in my gaffs, got as high on the log as I could to get as much leverage as I could and was able to push it off the stub and keep it from coming back on me. I shudder when I think of how bad that could have turned out.

Hope you make a full recovery soon.

 

[treevet]

Few years ago I was removing a giant dead beech and had a bollard torqued down on the trunk and we lowered a big piece and the trunk caved in where the ld was. Pretty nervous time after that.

 

[Bermie]

I never trust rotten beaches...especially those with seaweed and dead fish all over them...

Sorry, I just couldn't resist

Here's hoping you recover fully, all the best!

 

[treevet]

I never trust rotten beaches...especially those with seaweed and dead fish all over them...

Sorry, I just couldn't resist

Here's hoping you recover fully, all the best!

you scallywag bermie

 

[Bermie]

you scallywag bermie

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Col2y]

thanks guys,

in my 6-7 years doing this i've maybe done 5 beaches alot of people dont take them down because they are pretty uncommon in this area, that being said i didnt realize how brital they are... until the 27th of july i always say to my guys that its easier to learn from other people mistakes. I learned this one first hand

ct scan went good find out tomoro whether i get to keep the leg haha ill keep you guys posted

 

[Col2y]

Like you I hate the city but you can't make the big buck in the country.

that being said id be going from employee to employer

 

[treevet]

that being said id be going from employee to employer

good luck whichever choice and with the injury

 

[deevo]

thanks guys,

in my 6-7 years doing this i've maybe done 5 beaches alot of people dont take them down because they are pretty uncommon in this area, that being said i didnt realize how brital they are... until the 27th of july i always say to my guys that its easier to learn from other people mistakes. I learned this one first hand

ct scan went good find out tomoro whether i get to keep the leg haha ill keep you guys posted

Hope you make a full recovery, we have a lot of beech trees around here dying and all the homeowners wait until they are past the point of climbing then I get the call.....ummmmmmmm can you come and look at my tree, it's not looking so good?. If we can't access them with the bucket truck or lift or crane em out or just fell them I pass, I'm not taking any chances on them whatsoever (unless we can safely tie into another tree) I'll try and find some recent pictures of some we've done. But yeah they can be nasty!

 

[Treetom]

Son-of-a-beech!. That musta hurt.

 

[Col2y]

no surgery check up in 3 weeks so its a little bit of good news