Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: Providence Farm]
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11/06/22 09:40 AM
11/06/22 09:40 AM
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Griffin21
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I was an Ironworker for years and never tied off. It carried over to everything I do off the ground.
But like with seat belts, I can't tell the kids to wear them if I'm not setting the examplevand doing so myself. Having kids was a good influence on me. Especially now in a bit older and my balance and reaction time is not what it was. I am an Industrial climber, 90% tower work. I work on and off with Iron workers from and outfit called Tower Inspection, Those dude are on another level. Hats off to the Iron workers out there. You earn those checks. You're all Crazy with No F's to give.
“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
“The key of joy is disobedience.”
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: Gator Foot]
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11/06/22 09:47 AM
11/06/22 09:47 AM
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cathryn
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There was a local guy here that fell from a treestand and died In September.
He was 43
IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: MattLA]
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11/06/22 10:41 AM
11/06/22 10:41 AM
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Providence Farm
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For what its worth that guy on 31OCT wasnt wearing a safety harness.....atleast that was the word among the hunters. Well ther are 3 possibilities i can think of. It was not connected to anything, the connection was poorly done/or broke, or he was suspended for long enough hanging in the harness did him in. Well maybe 4. I have heard first hand accounts of one contractor having a harness put on a dead guy after he fell. I heard about it from one of the guys that put him into the harness. Something to do with liability and insurance payouts for his family if he was found to not have been in a harness or some such... It happens fast and can happen to anyone at anytime regardless of our abilities. Several guys I worked with are now dead from falls and job injuries. Including one guy that took my place after I quit on a tower we were building in Louisiana, the guy that trained me tower building, and a good friend I worked with building smoke stacks. Ant one of them could have been me. The tower in Louisiana would have been . The guy working the top connected the gin pole to the tower to the braces not the support point on the climbing face. The welds broke and the 60' gin pole spun 180 and was hanging by the bottom cables. When it spun it caught the guy on the botoms leg creating compound fractures. At that point the only way up or down was to climb and that was not possible for him. He hung there and bleed to death before an emergency response to get him down could be done. The guy working the top was a pot head and I'm sure he was stoned. That was less than 2 weeks after I quit. And a main reason I did. I picked a good time to quit it seems.
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: Gator Foot]
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11/06/22 11:04 AM
11/06/22 11:04 AM
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Posts: 5,516 La Crosse, WI
Macthediver
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Buddies wife missed a step coming out of tree stand bow hunting. Had bit to much slack in her descending harness line. Spiked into the ground broke her leg. Then hung there in the dark for an hour foot off the ground. She was able to call her husband and he went got her. She couldn't reach around tree far enough to release the cam. So had to just hang there until he cut her loose. Sounds like BS but she actually had coyotes checking her out while she hung there. Put her phone on speaker and talked to a girl freinds while waiting for husband to come. I gotta say she got lotta moxie. She has decided to use a ground blind from now on.
Mac
Last edited by Macthediver; 11/06/22 11:52 AM.
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: EdP]
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11/06/22 11:55 AM
11/06/22 11:55 AM
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SNIPERBBB
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I hate using the harness. It is a PITA. I do it anyway. One of the reasons i switched to a saddle.
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: Gator Foot]
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11/06/22 12:13 PM
11/06/22 12:13 PM
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I’ve take classes on harness use and fall safety. They taught us how to use the life line to make a loop to stand in and take the pressure off the groin area when you are hanging after a fall. I have a Muddy harness that came with a strap attached to one side of the harness and is for making a step to stand in, does the same thing as the life line loop.
Last edited by Bass1; 11/06/22 12:15 PM.
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Re: Tree stand safety!!!
[Re: Gator Foot]
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11/06/22 12:28 PM
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DaveP
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Saw this one this morning! Sad to say, I've climbed in worse decades ago. Also, left my nipples smeared 20' down a pine when my homemade Baker style with seatbelts for boot loops slipped off my feet. Good bit of forearm meat too!
Last edited by DaveP; 11/06/22 12:29 PM.
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