What's your biggest fear?

[capetrees]

After watching this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbSFnlDDfU&NR=1, and having done some similar drops yesterday on a smaller tree, it reminded me of my biggest fear in the tree, getting hit by a ricocheting spar. I've been hit before by smaller, 5' spars, one that smashed into my knee while freeclimbing, and find it to be the most dangerous part of being up in the tree. The heights don't bother me nor does the possiblity of falling. Getting crushed by something kicking back or swinging out of control does. Anyone else?

 

[lego1970]

Dyeing or being crippled for life:jawdrop:.
The two things that bother me are fat trees when climbing, and doing that freefall/swing/drop stuff when working the ropes on the ground.

 

[Tree Pig]

For me I think it would be tree or root failure causing the tree to fall while I was in it. Just the idea of being totally helpless that bothers me the most.

 

[Rftreeman]

my mother pissed off at me, she can still kick some butt.......

 

[beastmaster]

I biggest fear is while catching a top ,The tree breaks right under my feet. In my nightmare its a 120 footer.

 

[capetrees]

For me I think it would be tree or root failure causing the tree to fall while I was in it. Just the idea of being totally helpless that bothers me the most.

A climber was up in a tree last week and didn't realize the HO started to cut the tree but never finished prior to his climbing it. Limbed one side and then the tree started to fall as he was in it. Fell slow enough that he unstrapped, rode it down and jumped away about 5 feet off the ground. Perfectly fine but a bit shaken. :jawdrop:

 

[Toddppm]

I'd be scared my flip line would shake off over the top of the trunk after dropping a piece. Did anybody notice the guys flipline in that video when he dropped the top most couple pieces? Only about 2-3" above the cut and no other tie in.

 

[Rftreeman]

A guy I know was in a dead red oak and took the top out on rigging and the tree broke at the ground from the shock and fell across the roof of the house, he was in the hospital for months, the guy still climbs today.

 

[Tree Pig]

A climber was up in a tree last week and didn't realize the HO started to cut the tree but never finished prior to his climbing it. Limbed one side and then the tree started to fall as he was in it. Fell slow enough that he unstrapped, rode it down and jumped away about 5 feet off the ground. Perfectly fine but a bit shaken. :jawdrop:

I hope he went and bought some Lotto tickets that night... But did he inspect the tree before climbing. Thats kinda hard to miss I would think.

 

[tree MDS]

I dont like to think about it really...but I suppose any accident thats that serious, that I dont just simply die from right off.

A long recooperation just to be "alive", but screwed otherwise, would not be a good thing - financially and otherwise.

"Stay safe" aint no joke boys!

 

[NCTREE]

I can't say what scares me the most, every tree is different. I can say that I had a few trees that scared me. I climbed a large dead oak tree once that was hollow at the base, and leaning towards primary lines. Every spike closer to the top made my heart skip a beat. Got it down safely though, felt good to be on the ground after that one.

 

[jomoco]

One of my biggest fears is producing a video of some of my techniques that pretty much demand an experienced climber to safely accomplish, posting it on youtube, and having some rookie or intermediate novice climber try and pull it off and get hurt or killed because of it.

A few well known climbers have posted vids of techniques like say balance point rigging, that if a rookie or even intermediate climber attempted to copy without fully understanding the very real dangers to them if not done exactly right, could very well have disasterous results in my opinion.

I have quite a bit of video footage of some of my takedowns that I have no intention of ever posting on youtube for that exact reason.

Something we all need to consider, particularly those of us that do some very nasty takedowns and film it.

jomoco

 

[ForTheArborist]

A climber was up in a tree last week and didn't realize the HO started to cut the tree but never finished prior to his climbing it. Limbed one side and then the tree started to fall as he was in it. Fell slow enough that he unstrapped, rode it down and jumped away about 5 feet off the ground. Perfectly fine but a bit shaken. :jawdrop:

Woooooe, that's actually amazing. I'm not going to try something like extreme tree riding, and it won't be allowed around me. The thing is that would be a hell of a thrill to ride that down, and make it up right again without a scratch.

Tree guys have it made "in the zone" for that stuff. I know that I feel shaky about situations sometimes, but I also know that when things start to happen, like for the tree rider above, I start doing all the right things so fast and right on time that I wouldn't have known I could do them given any other situation. Sometimes I wonder HTH I have pull things off in "the moment."

 

[ForTheArborist]

After watching this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbSFnlDDfU&NR=1, and having done some similar drops yesterday on a smaller tree, it reminded me of my biggest fear in the tree, getting hit by a ricocheting spar. I've been hit before by smaller, 5' spars, one that smashed into my knee while freeclimbing, and find it to be the most dangerous part of being up in the tree. The heights don't bother me nor does the possiblity of falling. Getting crushed by something kicking back or swinging out of control does. Anyone else?

Cutting my own damn rope, and blowing it over someone's structures.

 

[fishercat]

what was he using in that video to push the big rounds off?

i need a couple of them thingamajiggs.

 

[BlackenedTimber]

Someone suggested in another thread that Reg (the dude who made the video, also an AS member) made that thingamajig. I think I saw one of his vids a while ago where he had mentioned that device in the description on youtube, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called. They may have figured it out on one of the other threads going now, something about chunking down big blocks.

 

[BlackenedTimber]

Found the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Recoates#p/u/27/m0JGDJIKnak

It's called the "BlockDriver" and according to the web, Reg did in fact invent it. You can purchase it here:

http://www.treepro.co.nz/accessories.asp

T

 

[treeslayer]

I'd be scared my flip line would shake off over the top of the trunk after dropping a piece. Did anybody notice the guys flipline in that video when he dropped the top most couple pieces? Only about 2-3" above the cut and no other tie in.

This happened to Richard Chalmyra (sp.?) in Wmsbg years ago. lanyard over the pulley, and the ground man let a big pine top slam the tree, (no run) and it kicked his spurs out and flipped the lanyard off.
Down 60' he came, landing on his feet wearing spurs on a concrete driveway.

been paralyzed ever since.

These guys in the video seemed to have a problem letting the logs run down.

 

[zopi]

This happened to Richard Chalmyra (sp.?) in Wmsbg years ago. lanyard over the pulley, and the ground man let a big pine top slam the tree, (no run) and it kicked his spurs out and flipped the lanyard off.
Down 60' he came, landing on his feet wearing spurs on a concrete driveway.

been paralyzed ever since.

These guys in the video seemed to have a problem letting the logs run down.

yeah..having something unforeseen go wrong and do you in, especially if it is
something that could have been prevented.

The one spar that went around the tree and bounced back in the vid would have made me crap myself! :censored:

 

[outofmytree]

yeah..having something unforeseen go wrong and do you in, especially if it is
something that could have been prevented.

The one spar that went around the tree and bounced back in the vid would have made me crap myself! :censored:

2.20. I watched that a few times. Bad Portawrap control and no tag line.

Toddppm I'd be scared my flip line would shake off over the top of the trunk after dropping a piece. Did anybody notice the guys flipline in that video when he dropped the top most couple pieces? Only about 2-3" above the cut and no other tie in.

Assuming the video is presented in order, his lifeline was above and behind him split tail. Watch the piece dropped at 1.19 for a better view.

The blocking down was all done with lifeline below flipline as most climbers do over here.