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My old boss and I went out on a quickie and were go call it the day after. It was a 90' leaning cottonwood about 3' diameter, just at the edge of the woods beyond the customers property. It was compromised at 10' up the trunk and neither of us were wanting to climb this one. We set a line at...

Run it under warm water and rub a little butter on it, it'll be fine.

Yep, this profession is dangerous.

Not sure if I posted this here, but I have in another forum. Story and pic pulled from that site and pasted here.

Good thing then huh... That rope would've damn near bifurcated you.

If I'm understanding what you went thru, the roped section went over your back. Am I correct? If so, then I'd want my groundman to slack that line with the quickness! Had this happen a few times as well. Luckily my groundman did just that.

There's no room for daydreaming in this job. Though im focused at all times, I will say I find the work very Zen like- and though I spend reflective time in the canopy, I still mind my environment carefully.

Of all places, I'm removing a large Cherry on the grounds of a cemetery. All the brush was down and being chipped as I continued down the spar- removing 22" pieces. The trunk was a solid diameter of 40" straight up to where I was working my way down from, at about 35' —the height of a utility...

Another close call with using a pole saw. Taken from another arborist forum I posted this in.

OSHA gets there with the quickness. I know crap like this just happens, but I'd love to know the details of how. So as to avoid ever making the same mistake, if that is even possible. Thanks for the link.

Do you have a link to the story?

I just posted this one a few days ago at another arborist forum. Simple copy & paste action.

Don't know if anyone remembered a climber by the name of Jeff Jackson, but he made a boo boo or two that I had heard about. When the BigShot first came out, he was using it at the Cleveland ISA climbing competitions, showing folks how well it worked. At first, it was used with the sling being...

I'm still healing from this one. In fact, my g/f is blind without her contacts —climbed into bed with me, kneeing my elbow- ripping off my scab. On my last removal, I was bucking up the felled tree and as I cut thru, I pulled the freed log toward me. Now I'm adamant about always looking for an...

Long ago, in a state far far away, I had removed a giant Walnut tree. As I finished cutting the stump, I grabbed the cant hook and went to pry it away. Well, it was still attached somewhere -so as I lifted and pivoted I also stepped forward to move with the stump, but it caught somewhere and...

Knew I couldn't had been the only one to have had this happen. I just switched my Caritool from the saddle to my suspenders- directly on my chest. I will be looking into a lanyard for suspension of assorted gear & devices. Reaching to my left for equipment comes as natural as breathing to me.

On another thread, someone mentioned leaning over and putting ones face over a cut to see how the cut is managing. I'm at a golf course NE Ohio removing a 175 year old White Oak. This was the largest tree that I had to take down, that early in my career. The branches where bigger than most...

Here's one that got my blood pressure up. I have a Petzl Caritool on my saddles left side, my safety lanyard on my right. See where this is going? So I'm untied to re-route around some branches -and I've employed my lanyard to do its job while positioning. I'm a big guy— 6' and 225lbs. and...