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Nothing would have helped once the split began to propagate. Retreat was his only option. Chain binders might have helped, but I'd speculate that even heavy duty ratchet straps would have stretched and slid down with the split, if not blowing apart all together.

One the lanyarding out of the circle of death thing. I guess I feel that in certain trees, just like these big old bastards Gary, that clipping a wire core into a central attachment point, along with your secondary tie in and escape line, could also be super dangerous. You might not get...

Oaks are good for that. Oaks and Alders. Stupid Alders. . . I always like the idea of hanging some weight midline on the pull rope (though I seldom do it). Maybe straps, GF Beranek style if retreat wasn't an option. A buddy of my got clobbered on an Alder tear out. Not really sure how...