What was one mistake that you won't do again?
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Doctor Dave
ArboristSite Operative
pmuscato said:
After the dog bit you, you said:
"Hey! I thought you said that your dog doesn't bite!"
Customer:
"That is not my dog"
(Thank's to one of the Pink Panther movies)
Menchhofer
ArboristSite Guru
One time only...did not put outriggers down on bucket truck completely on slanted driveway. Went to trim about 45 ft up , truck slid out into the street!
Very scary. The ride in the bucket over the curb was the worse but at least it did not tip over.
Very scary. The ride in the bucket over the curb was the worse but at least it did not tip over.
Climb020
ArboristSite Operative
Didn't pay attention to my rigging points as I worked my way down the tree and started rushing the job.
Had two pulleys set up, one on the tree I was in and another set and a 5" branch on a neighboring tree. I worked the whole tree with no problems. I started chunking down the trunk and was getting a bit anxious to get finished (needed a bathroom brake), so began taking 6' log sections. I was getting farther down the trunk and forgot to move the pulley down on the neighboring tree being the weight was too much and now having two pulleys were almost useless being the angle at the top pulley was about 15 degrees. I cut the next piece and as soon as it was pushed off the spar the top of the neighboring tree broke out. I must have been one lucky SOB. My ground guy though I was a goner. The top passed by just a few feet from me. By the time I knew what was going on every thing was already on the ground. Got real lucky, no property damage either.
Taught me a good lesson that day. Double check everything, and don't rush cause that is when mistakes happen
Had two pulleys set up, one on the tree I was in and another set and a 5" branch on a neighboring tree. I worked the whole tree with no problems. I started chunking down the trunk and was getting a bit anxious to get finished (needed a bathroom brake), so began taking 6' log sections. I was getting farther down the trunk and forgot to move the pulley down on the neighboring tree being the weight was too much and now having two pulleys were almost useless being the angle at the top pulley was about 15 degrees. I cut the next piece and as soon as it was pushed off the spar the top of the neighboring tree broke out. I must have been one lucky SOB. My ground guy though I was a goner. The top passed by just a few feet from me. By the time I knew what was going on every thing was already on the ground. Got real lucky, no property damage either.
Taught me a good lesson that day. Double check everything, and don't rush cause that is when mistakes happen
FSburt
ArboristSite Operative
Doing a removal of a 70 ft tall Ponderosa Pine growing through 2 decks. Decided to speedline the tree down. Well all was going well until I got to the larger truck pieces. I was losing height and angle but figured i had one more piece I could slide out and down. So I cut the piece and it fell and swung to low and bounced off the lower deck railing. Luckily only busted the top 2x6 rail but scared the beep of me.:jawdrop: All while this was happening the owner was sitting on a lawnchair watching me. He was cool about the thing but It could have been much worse. So i will pay more attention to sag and wood weights when working with speedlines. Loved how it worked with limbs though. Clients grandkids wanted to ride on it when they saw the limbs fly across the yard. I'll send some pics that the client took when I get them. Also will never run directy behind the stump of a falling tree again. I was falling fire killed timber for reforestation purposes and was cutting on a 40" DBH PPine down in a drainage bottom surrounded by mud bog conditions I figured my quickest way out was behind the stump and then turn to the side with firm ground. Well as the tree starts to fall I start escaping the stump and just as I am about to make my turn to the side I look back and bam i get hit dead in the chest with a large dead limb thrown back when the tree brushed a live oak tree in front. I was pretty lucky because the limb was fairly light due to being dead for 2 years if it had been green I would have been killed outright. I just paused for moment and looked up and told the man upstairs thanks for warning about not following what I have been taught. 
matty f
ArboristSite Operative
let a groundy on his first day lower a large bit of beach near a 16th century listed flint wall becouse i got impatient with my regular rope guy talking to the client..it would of been ok if the groundy did not have a gay obsesion with trying to melt his gloves by letting the rope run on full swing in to the wall...
MarsCrash
ArboristSite Lurker
Down goes Frazier!
I was up about 60 feet crown-cleaning a skanky old Norway Maple, and I needed to swing over to another section. I had a 12 oz. throwbag with me to re-set my line, and it got caught in a crotch with included bark. Well, I just pulled really hard so I could re-throw it. It broke free and landed a straight right that Ali would have been proud of. I finished the climb with a broken nose and two missing teeth.
You use your helmet to protect your head, but if you don't use your head then you might as well leave the helmet on the ground.
I was up about 60 feet crown-cleaning a skanky old Norway Maple, and I needed to swing over to another section. I had a 12 oz. throwbag with me to re-set my line, and it got caught in a crotch with included bark. Well, I just pulled really hard so I could re-throw it. It broke free and landed a straight right that Ali would have been proud of. I finished the climb with a broken nose and two missing teeth.
You use your helmet to protect your head, but if you don't use your head then you might as well leave the helmet on the ground.
