Tell me something stupid you did!

Where do I start. Took down the wrong tree. Several fuck it cuts that resulted in some repairs. Man I just can't think of anything really juicy. I done lots of stupid stuff. Probably the most stupid was learning to climb with only a flip line. No rope. Just a flip line. Limb walks were pretty much not happening. I can remember being 80' up and unclipping to climb around limbs. I should be quite dead by now.
 
Steve Connally said:
Where do I start. Took down the wrong tree. Several fuck it cuts that resulted in some repairs. Man I just can't think of anything really juicy. I done lots of stupid stuff.
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Ha! I took down the wrong tree about a month ago. Effing homeowner watched me do it and never said anything. I think he wanted me to do it anyway.

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I got my climbing saw so stuck one time I had to descend and get another saw. Ascend back up, tie off the first saw to the trunk behind the limb and then proceed to backcut the limb until both the branch dropeed and the saw swung free. That little mistake only cost me a new chain luckily.
 
I'm sure I have worse than this (broke a few garden ornaments so far)... still new on srt - couple of times I descended to the ground as if finished with the tree, only to realise I need to go back up to retrieve my canopy cinch...

Taken the wrong tree a couple of times I'm sure as well - though partially that is terrible communication between the customer, boss and I...
 
Stopped at a Runza Drive Inn for breakfast. Had gas so bad, I pretty much just had to hold onto the rope and jet assist up the tree. Should have charged the customer for killing all those termites and bark beetles for him. I was starting to wish somebody would just burn a fuggin' cat, or something, to cover up the smell. I'm either going to have to stop eating there, or add a gas mask to my PPE box.
 
busted out my canine with the winch hook just simply walking it out to a tree. I was pulling on the line about 3' from the hook end, it locked up, and flipped right into my mouth.

Had a bald faced hornet fly under my face shield and get me on the upper cheek. I kept slapping my face trying to get it, but it got me 4 times before I was smart enough to flip up the screen.

Stubbornly trying to do the same thing over and over even though it didnt work the first time... (thats the worst habit I have)
 
Okay my turn, two of a few I'm sure.

In my early days I went to cut a 12 foot chunk of wood off the remaining trunk of a 12" dbh Norway Maple I was removing that was leaning towards a house. about 10 feet from the ground and only on my spikes and flipline. I put in one cut straight in from the back without doing an undercut first and it split down the middle on me, I practically circle of deathed my dumb ass. Pinned me against the trunk and my lanyard was the only thing stopping the 12 foot trunk section from taking out the corner of the house. Not enough to hurt but enough to trap me there. I had to call my boss at the time to come get me out of that bullshit. He showed up 30 minutes later and laughed at me for a while before getting me loose.

#2 - Doing some sub work dismantling this nasty ass backyard mulberry leaning over communications bundle, I took like 10 minutes making this beautiful work of art of a notch that you could have hung in the god damn Reich Museum and proceeded to back cut straight through it with my new sharp chain, dropping the whole stem ontop of the comm bundle instead of swinging over into the yard.
 
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I got my climbing saw so stuck one time I had to get another saw, tie off the first saw to the trunk and then cut the limb until both the branch dropped and the saw swung free.
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Nothing against you, Frank, but that's not even an Honorable Mention. I'd be willing to bet there's not a single tree guy on here that hasn't done that at least 2 or 3 times.

That's at least 1 of the reasons we permanently keep a squrench up in the bucket: bad pinch, take off the bar and chain and leave them stuck in the cut, so when whatever happens happens, at least you saved the power head and are only buying a new bar and chain.
 
Jeff said:
Nothing against you, Frank, but that's not even an Honorable Mention. I'd be willing to bet there's not a single tree guy on here that hasn't done that at least 2 or 3 times.

That's at least 1 of the reasons we permanently keep a squrench up in the bucket: bad pinch, take off the bar and chain and leave them stuck in the cut, so when whatever happens happens, at least you saved the power head and are only buying a new bar and chain.
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I once got my climbing saw stuck, and then got my 231 stuck trying to get my climbing saw out.
 
Alex McManus said:
Got my foot stuck in a crotch for a good 20 mins,
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Got my foot stuck in a crotch so bad, had to have another climber come get me. I'd already descended past the crotch and thought it would slip out, but it didn't, and I was already so exhausted and in such an awkward position, I could not extricate myself. They laughed at me for a good 20 minutes before someone finally came after me.
 
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