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[treehumper]

Put a 2' chunk through a roof, popped out a fence section (that one is on the owner of the company I was with at the time), took down 4 trees instead of pruning them…ugh…., clipped a gutter, dinged the side of the bucket truck. Partially amputated my left middle finger, and you know about the ankle.

That's my confession.

 

[TimberJack]

Thanks for everyone's honesty. We're all just humans not some sort of cyber robots designed to be the perfect tree machines we would like to think we are sometimes. Complacency can ruin even the best of days if not worse.

 

[Treezybreez]

I was taking down a sweet gum, plenty of room to just cut and drop limbs. So I thought. I was trying to go easy on the turf, but the only branch to stick straight in the ground hit one of the lines to the drain field. The pipe was only buried 4".

 

[Pelorus]

Backed my bucket truck back up a steep driveway and quickly executed the 90 degree turn onto the road...
and the pintle hitch made a perfect hole in the cottage owner's wife's fancy Madza sports car's rear bumper.
I had noticed she had parked it there on the road when she arrived, but failed to remember that significant little detail.
The impalement happened just before or at the same time she screamed.
Non profit day. Stress level Factor 10.

Earlier that same day I had told one groundman to go home. He was standing around being kinda useless, while other guys were picking up his slack. He sat in his truck awhile, finally left, and ran into a hydro pole a couple miles away. Totalled his truck. Knocked power out to a good portion of the town. He somehow had the presence of mind to tell the cops a deer fly flew into his eye, causing him to lose control of the truck. Didn't get charged. Think his blood sugar was low - (diabetic).

 

[Lumberjack]

Last month I had what should have been an easy fell land ~10-15* out of its lay and had a limb hit the 20 year old air conditioner. The air conditioner used R22, the phasing out type of freon. Long story short, I got to pay for $2100 of the $3900 upgrade cost to replace the inside and outside units to the current R410A freon systems. This on a $1k removal.

Not my biggest loss, but it's my most recent. In 2007 I think it was I had a top go the wrong way.... $2700 of damage on a $700 (I think) job. That was my biggest.

 

[Pelorus]

Had an 026 come off a hook contraption I had bolted to my bucket.(no scabbard)
Never noticed it had fallen until I went to grab it and it just wasn't there. Which struck me as kinda odd.
The bar & chain made a hole in the custy' metal garage roof. He had a spare chunk of the same roofing kicking around, and patched it himself. He found the whole incident kinda amusing. Wish more people were like him.