I should have said somthing!!!

[brookpederson]

We recently had a hefty wind storm move though our area, business has been booming and I'm happy as a hippi at peace gathering. But the other day I saw a bad scenario happen and I feel like I should have said something.

Here's what happened. We were finishing up our second job of the day and I was coming out of the tree and wrapping my ropes up. When a truck pulls up to the neighbors and three guys jump out. They grab a couple of saws and a 20' extension ladder. Then they proceeded to crank that ladder out to the max and set it against the tree, one guy climbs up no belt, no rope, nothing the other guy holds the ladder.
Now I'm starting to worry because The cutter on the ladder starts cutting on the lowest branch on the tree, it was about 12" diameter and 25 feet long- no under cut, he just starts cutting!. This is where I should have ran over and said something. I feel horrible, because all of you know what happened. THe branch bounced and knocked the ladder and the cutter for one hell of a ride.
Should i have said something?

 

[OLD CHIPMONK]

Yep , " should I dial 911 " ?

 

[ASD]

Ya but they probably would not of gave a shi!! what you had to say and at that point i would have gone back over to my job site / truck and got out the old vid cam and well you know the rest (utube here we come )

 

[Nailsbeats]

If you had time too, then yes, but hindsight is 20/20 and maybe you didn't actually believe what you were seeing at the time. You may have gave them the benefit of the doubt in your mind at first, then said oh $hit afterwards. Anyway you look at it, it happens, and lessons are learned on both sides.

 

[Billy_Bob]

I've given up giving advice to people unless they ask me. They just don't want to hear it. And this is quite frustrating to me sometimes when I see someone in a certain situation and know there is a better way they could do something. But I have learned from experience to zip my lip!

Sometimes people take things better if the advice is in the form of a question. So maybe walking up to those guys and saying "Wouldn't it be safer if you tied a rope from a sturdy higher branch to the guy on the ladder and someone on the ground held the rope from a safe distance?"

But frankly I would have expected those guys to say "No we don't need any ropes." Or "Mind you own business".

Where I live Darwin rules... There are plenty of younger people who do not listen to ANY rules. Every summer a few bite the dust in stupid car accidents. They just don't listen to advice period! Rules are to be broken.

 

[treemandan]

What was it that you think you should have said? Wait! Let me get the camera first?

 

[turnkey4099]

What was it that you think you should have said? Wait! Let me get the camera first?

Or:

"Wait, I need a lawn chair, beer and peanuts"

Harry K

 

[ddhlakebound]

Or:

"Wait, I need a lawn chair, beer and peanuts"

Harry K

Or:

Hey, before you guys kill yourselves, I'd like to get a little video for my documentary "How to Screw Up Yourself and the Tree in One Cut".

 

[Billy_Bob]

Here ya go...

Read post number 22 in the following...
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?p=1111395#post1111395

 

[ropensaddle]

Like yeah you could have nudged who ever was close and said watch
this **** If someone is gonna be stupid nothing short of a caped crusader is going to change their minds. Eh, I don't wish to bust your
bubble or anything, however; I don't think you have a big S on ya chest!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[senechal]

I was sitting in the ER on Friday (dislocated my finger on a limbwalk slip) beside a 14 year old landscape construction worker who cut his leg pretty bad with a chainsaw. Jeans. I showed him my pants and told his mom that the combination of that and a saw course, he wouldn't be here. His boss said "Your scar is going to be better than mine!"

 

[tree MDS]

They wouldnt have listened. Even fake treeguys are arrogant, lol.

 

[joesawer]

They wouldnt have listened. Even fake treeguys are arrogant, lol.

LOL...... :agree2:

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

I've given up giving advice to people unless they ask me. They just don't want to hear it. And this is quite frustrating to me sometimes when I see someone in a certain situation and know there is a better way they could do something. But I have learned from experience to zip my lip!

Yep. Most people would FAR rather continue to be WRONG than to be corrected.

 

[Texas Traveler]

They wouldnt have listened. Even fake treeguys are arrogant, lol.

I was setting on a crawler crane with 230 ft. of boom at I-35, North of Dallas one day.

When I noticed another crawler crane rigged up about like I was on the other side, it was in a bad sit-up unlevel with a load of unknown weight.

When you run with that much boom you have a level crane pad, it is the law..

It was a concrete capform lifting off of a poured cap that was downhill from the crane.

Man that lift looked bad even on level gournd, I asked the little foreman that I was helping to call the supt. & tell him the crane is about to flip.

The man refused to do it, he was scared of the supt.

He had no more then said that when I looked up & noticed a car was going sideways up the freeway.

Then here came another car, I looked across the freeway to see dust flying.

All of the 230 feet laid down side by side of the freeway.

Except part of the boom was drapped across the cap. The crane a 200 ton American was balanced on the end of its crawlers in a hole about 4 ft deep

 

[murphy4trees]

I was grinding stumps a few years back after Isabel and there were a couple guys trying to pull these widowmakers (hung leaners) out from the base with a shortb chain and a small pick up.... I forget if I was thinking it wasn't going to work or if I thought it was dangerous... It must have looked dangerous, or I probably wouldn't have said anything... I tried to show them the verticle snap cut.... Salami cut or whatever you want to call it... They wanted no parts of it...
They got the job done though, which actually surprised me, so good for them.... It could have been ugly though..

 

[toddstreeservic]

[homer simpson voice]yumm salami. [/homer simpson voice]

 

[Booshcat]

What Arrogance To Even Assume That They Spoke English!
Shame On You.
"Wild Thing I Think I Love You.....DA DA DA DA"
:greenchainsaw:

 

[Bearcreek]

I was doing a removal of a yellow pine a few years ago and was about 35 ft. or so up in the tree when I noticed a guy a few houses over setting a 12 ft ladder against the branches a small pine. He starts his saw and proceeds up the ladder, limbing as he goes. He kept going up to where his ladder was leaning and cut that branch right off and wham!! down he comes. Before then I thought that only happened in comic strips.

 

[mantis]

Did they have their GREEN CARD?