Tell me something stupid you did!

TimBr said:
Ok, great thread! Thanks for starting it, @Toomuchsawdust! I have nowhere near the depth and breadth of experience all of you folks have, so my story is pretty wimpy. When I was first learning to climb SRT, I think I must have done some large amount of redirecting of my rope. It was getting really late, and dark out, though helped by some back yard lights. So I wanted to come down for the day, and took my foot ascender and knee ascender off of the rope, descending only on my hitch.

I did have a stopper knot near the end of my rope, which promptly jammed itself hard up into the bottom of my pulley, if I'm recalling the details correctly. I did not have much length below the stopper, and being new, I was stuck there for quite a while until I remembered about making a mechanical advantage setup, which allowed me to pull myself back up, and then recover enough length of rope to reach the ground.

After this incident, I always tie my stopper knot about ten feet from the end of the rope, so that I will always be able to easily put on a knee or foot ascender if I ever need to ascend again.

After this incident, my older brother described my approach to things as "Hanging out in a tree like a Christmas ornament."

Tim
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Duuuuude that's terrifying to me.

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And climbing wise, i cut a heavy lead (cut it slow due to it was my first time climbing) while standing on it. When it popped off I went flying. I blinked and I was upside down flying towards the stem. Hit it hard, than my Poulan hit me hard. Please don't judge. I was a young buck trying to make some money to get proper gear.
 
I was doing the old cookie cutter making a cut on a log that had swallowed up a communications cable, damn thing was under some good tension, more than I had anticipated. I thought I was out of the way when I went to make the cut below the wire to leave the chunk on there but it turned out I was directly in the line of fire. I'm assuming that it let go prematurely and glass jawed me on the way up because I woke up laying flat against the leaning spar listening to the sound of my saw idling on its lanyard below me.
 
colb said:
End of day, 30' up a Laurel oak spar, nature calls... I scurried down, dropped harness and dove across the 2-acre lot to the woods next to the property line. Took care of things, covered lightly with leaves, got back up for two more cuts. Neighbor stops in and says he's got a tree he wants me to look at, walks over to the woodline. It was 200yds away and he stepped in it in those pimply Adidas sandals! The odds, ya know...
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Holy fuck..whoa horsey
 
colb said:
End of day, 30' up a Laurel oak spar, nature calls... I scurried down, dropped harness and dove across the 2-acre lot to the woods next to the property line. Took care of things, covered lightly with leaves, got back up for two more cuts. Neighbor stops in and says he's got a tree he wants me to look at, walks over to the woodline. It was 200yds away and he stepped in it in those pimply Adidas sandals! The odds, ya know...
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Can't...stop...laughing
 
I started out in line clearance. I was in the bucket truck parked sideways to 6 Norfolk pines that i had to top. Got to the last one all stoked that i didn't have to reset the truck. Put my notch in , then my back cut and the top landed on its tip made a jump to the left and launched thr butt end through the windscreen of the truck cab. I have more stories, My nick name was demo....
 
Who here has put diesel or gas in the wrong fuel tank? We've had two different guys do it, but we caught it before running the engines.

I bet it happens a lot.


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Went to fell a (25') cherry in a side yard, ran out of gas on the back cut. The thing was only like 10" bdh or something, so although k ran out of gas, I had gone pretty far thru. Well I started walking in the direction of the gas thinking about how mad I was for not filling the saw first, then realized the was coming over and I as walkin in the felling path. I then sprinted in the same direction instead of trying to get out of the path, just made it out of the way. Would t have ended my day, but would hurt bad enough
 
OK I GOT IT!

Piecing out this big, mostly dead Norway maple from the bucket. Bombing everything. kinda bored.. big white faced hornets nest on a low limb.. looks like it was being held up by one sucker.. so I sneaked up real quiet like, drew the hand saw and figured with one stroke, it would no longer be my problem.. let the ground guys figure out how to deal with it..
Made the cut and the sucker fell, but not the nest. (turns out there was another sucker that had grown out from the bottom and up on my blind side...)

Needless to say the hornets were pissed and came at me in mass... So I crouched down in the bucket, screaming like a little girl, swatting at the little beasts with the hand saw, as they were chewing on my forearm, and reaching for the controls to get myself out of there... Groundies literally fell on the ground laughing... couldn't blame them, I laughed too..
 
Have been very busy haven't had the chance to check in as often as wanted and come back to this gem! First starting out, I tried to catch my pole saw as it slipped off the sprout I had just hung it on. It caught me, in the forearm. I've put about 700gal of fert into the wrong trees, and have had to replace a few panels on the side of the shop. Had a guy dump chips without taking our gear bags out of the truck and got to dig them out of the pile the next morning in January.

There will b more...
 
KYAPLE said:
Have been very busy haven't had the chance to check in as often as wanted and come back to this gem! First starting out, I tried to catch my pole saw as it slipped off the sprout I had just hung it on. It caught me, in the forearm. I've put about 700gal of fert into the wrong trees, and have had to replace a few panels on the side of the shop. Had a guy dump chips without taking our gear bags out of the truck and got to dig them out of the pile the next morning in January.

There will b more...
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I gotta forearm scar like that too, I think we compared at some point. Twins!

A few years ago I told the climber I didn't need to put the rope in the porty to lower a piece she was cutting, she shrugged and said alright, made the cut. And it became instantly apparent that I was immensely mistaken. It dragged my big ass across the lawn faster than I could pee in my pants a little. The stupid part is that there was no target at risk besides lawn, and yet I held that rope. Me and the log met in the middle I bounced off it with my shoulder, got some road rash. And the older tree guy who had just started with us yelled "holy shit! That's a fuckin tree guy" like it was some point of male pride to be too stupid to let go.

Another similar incident had me about twenty feet up, near eye level with the climber. "Hey mark", "hey Mac"
That piece wasnt too much heavier that me so I was able to bounce and get myself to the ground.
 
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