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The woods are only as dangerous as the logger makes it. Five days a week, months on end working in the rain,heat. Flat out repetitive work and if you don't have your head screwed on straight then its screw the regulations and you're going be swinging dutchmen and dominoing all you want and then...

Except for the people who certified him.

Choker men , yarders and airhorns. But all the fallers I met carried just a whistle.

Yeah that air horn idea was funny alright.....I'm LMAO too:lol:

The faller had 3 trees and a snag to watch over all at once when they were going down in just a matter of seconds. Way too much chit happening all at once, air horn only would confuse the situation even more .

Your wrong , faller 1 only brought it up to attention with faller 2. This air horn idea of yours is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard of.

Work Place investigation definitely would have looked into the managments role into this. The faller did bring this hazard up and normally a blasting crew would have taken care of it. Foreman should have ribboned the area off and had the faller cut elsewhere on the block until it was taken care of.

Limbed locked or not just the vibration and movement 80 ft up could have sent that broken widow maker onto him. He left 2 trees notched and back cutted then left standing to fall any time .Not a good choice Falling by himself in British Columbia qualified him as a certified faller...he just...

Cutting and leaving that first green tree standing with the widow maker hung up in its top was a real big no no.

The way I was trained was all hazard dead snags or chicots as we call them, have to be dealt with first before felling nearby trees is carried on. Either their cut down or if small enough have the skidder push them over. In this case the real hazard was the hung up broken widow maker on the dead...

The biggest mistake the faller made was leaving the first tree cut and left standing. That right there would be an automatic 3 days off with no pay at the company who I fell for. Has been proven over and over again in logging history........in time your luck will run out.