I keep a 12 wooden pole with head (hook .. no blade) on the bucket truck, and an 8 ' fiberglass pole with receiver on one end for sling shot head) and a hook on the other end (no blade) in the pick up truck.. I also ike to keep a 10-12 oz throw weight on a keychain biner on the back of my...
I hate when someone blames a close call like that on the ground man... Obviously tree work would be a lot safer if we all had good groundmen... And if we all had 50 million we wouldn;t be doing tree work in the first place..
Now back to reality...
Not all groundmen know what they are doing...
The poor rope skill was a given. Human announced at the beginning of the video that it was a new guy on the ropes.. having to rely on the ground guy's skills to keep the climber safe is a sign of poor rigging skills... first and foremost ... there was no reason to put the other climber in...
Didn't notice until the post went up that the caps Lock had been on and I was in a hurry so I went with the flow.. Who knows.. maybe those caps will save someone's life. ;)
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It's so important to analyze every mistake, no matter how minor and learn from it...
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