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Blaming someone is different that analyzing the dangerous situation that could have been really bad to prevent it from becoming really, really bad another time. You know, the accident triangle, so many near-misses... If I couldn't trust someone to keep a winch line (a rope actually...

7000# mbs, not swl. Do your feed wheels work while your winch has power? My experience is with a Bandit. How did the hook/ biner end up in the chipper the first time? The second time? Seems like two people getting involved in one person's job, frankly, or a poor process. Best I can...

How funny, I say, 1. Don't get hurt. 2. Don't break/ lose stuff 3. Get some work done That's the priority order.

True enough, Mick, if they do everything else well. It's so easy to learn to tie a knot that is the basic bread-and-butter knot of the industry, though, at least IME. I can get most people tying it in 5 minutes or less. It's more complicated than a clove hitch. That usually takes about 1...

Get rid someone who can't tie a Running bowline or who wear velcro-closure boots. My daughter is 6. I think by the time shes 7 or 8 she's going to be the paid trainer for knot-and-ropework-basics for new groundies. She can tie her shoes, and has a little song for how to make sure the girth...

A DOT BB anvil came loose. blew through the housing. Landed in the driving lane, I hear. Torque and retire bolts, I guess.

Always will be a guy tired or over heated or sick or... Chook.

Genius, Rich!

Can't charge an employee for unintended damage. A chook might help. Sounds like that might have, possibly, coulda instead paid the cost of Coolvests for the crew. Wore ours today. Feel good. We're in a heat spell. Further, its an opportunity to sit down with the guy, say, "hey, here's the...