Climber Falls - Not wife/kids safe!

[bonner1040]

It wont embed, saw it on the buzz. Probly gonna have nightmares.

http://youtu.be/tTV2onIYmCI

It happens after 2:15

Doesnt feel right putting it on the wall of shame.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow, poor fellow. It looked like he was tied in, but I guess he wasn't.

 

[cory]

That's awful, but thanks for posting to remind us all of the dangers at height.

 

[gf beranek]

Damn. Anybody here know the guy?

 

[HolmenTree]

Could have been alot worse seeing he wasn't wearing a helmet!:roll: At least he had the smarts to use his climb line as a lanyard for safe emergency exit.......but that unintended exit wasn't so safe was it?
Pruning a tree with spurs :what:as he mentioned the paint made the tree look like it wasn't ever pruned.

 

[gf beranek]

That's sad. And dumb. Hope he's OK.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Can anyone tell what exactly happened there? He used an additional rope to pull himself up to a limb, then unclipped his lanyard?

 

[Adam_P]

That is one lucky human. I hope he makes the most of his second chance at life.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Who says he lived?

 

[Porkbrick]

he posted the vid, says the fall broke his back. Ouch!

 

[bonner1040]

He has a whole youtube channel full of tree work that does belong in the wall of shame thread.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Good he didn't die. Does he say why he fell?

 

[Treepreacher51]

He was asked multiple times and did not give an explanation as to what went wrong. Luck to be alive. Wow.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Most people don't really remember exactly what happened after trauma like that.

 

[Porkbrick]

hopefully he remembers enough to learn from his mistake.

 

[MasterBlaster]

At least he wasn't packing a chainsaw.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

A lucky dumbshit.

 

[MasterBlaster]

So, it was a trim and he was respuring it again, to paint some cuts?

 

[SouthSoundTree]

Looks like it.

Inefficient and poor quality work.

 

[flushcut]

So, it was a trim and he was respuring it again, to paint some cuts?

That's what I was thinking. It looked to me that he used his climb line to pull himself up a bit unclipped his lanyard and forgot he was not tied in.

 

[vl2007]

That's what I was thinking. It looked to me that he used his climb line to pull himself up a bit unclipped his lanyard and forgot he was not tied in.

That's how i saw it also.

 

[Altissimus]

... forgetting to tie in ... hmmmm , F'd up thing to forget

 

[Tucker943]

I can't forget to tie in. Its like the ONE freaking thing I can't possibly forget while climbing. Of all the things I have forgotten, my mind has never even come close to glitching on that one.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Man, you'd better knock on wood orrrrrrrr something!

 

[pantheraba]

Roger that...I have been distracted or bad hot and tired before and realized I was considering unsnapping a lanyard when I didn't have my climbing line set. I can see it happening. Constant vigilance (at least shooting for that) is our best hope.

I once had someone asking a million questions as I was starting up the climbing line...I finally put them on ignore when I looked down and noticed one leg of my eye-eye was not on the biner...it had slipped off when I put the biner through my bridge connection. It was still holding my weight fine but it is unsettling, disconcerting and a real WTF realization when you look down and see something like that.

I've learned to go into "mission mode" when I start doing dangerous stuff...it's too easy to get comfortable doing some things and not acknowledge the seriousness of what we are actually doing. Appearing to be casual when doing something dangerous may look professional to some...it may also be a sign of complacency. Only the doer of the deed really knows which one is correct.