The Crushing of the Blaster.

Get well soon, Bro.

Did it feel like this on your foot?
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Don't try to put any shoes on.
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Thanks for posting. We can all learn a bit more.

You'll heal fast and get going soon, your attitude will see to that!

A couple of other things that you could have change would be to have the debris cleared at the base. This could have allowed an escape route, maybe only a step or two.

Not having spikes on would give more stable footing too.

Heal quickly!
 
The person who this accident happened to was very lucky.

By the sounds of it, the full weight of the limb could have easily crushed their foot, fortunately for them it was a glancing blow.

I have seen slings slip like this due to the bark tearing then slipping on Ailanthus altissima.

I've never seen the sling slip the way the person describes, as normally the crane has taken up the slack. Maybe the sling was caught on a small nub of wood, then when the full weight was applied to the sling it slipped off the nub?

I wonder if it would be possible to find out what kind of slings were used?

Maybe a wire core farrel wrap or similar type of attachment would have prevented this accident?

It gives us all something to think about when working with cranes, or lifting limbs using the GRCS or similar.
 
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Not having spikes on would give more stable footing too.


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How so? Do you find that your less stable being spiked in?? I would feel unstable without spikes in most removal situations.

Also,I didn't read in his post that he had slipped.
 
Speedy recovery, MB.

Great job on the detailed post so we can all learn and try to raise our awareness.

Be honest, aren't we all under the load periodically when doing a crane removal??

The biggest thing that jumped out at me from your list is setting up the sling where it could slip even if you had made the cut where you originally wanted to...I would be scared to see slings slip even if the piece were moving away as you had it planned...too much shock load on everything.

I also liked how you detailed your stream of consciousness as the the whole occurence unfolded...we all do that I think, noting the pluses and minuses of each possible move,figuring the cost/benefit of each move, and the vast majority of the time, things work as expected after you make the decision.

When things do go wrong, its funny that what causes the problem is virtually never something that was not considered, it just wasn't considered enough.
 
thats gotta hurt........butch i wish you have a speedy recovery and no future complicaitions.my old man did somthing simular with a big bit of cedar, silly old fool could not never put his feet up and let it heal.. went out stump grinding the next few days after and got gang green and had to have two thirds of his leg removed and had to have evan more time off not to mention the near loss of his leg,so put your feet up for a while mate!
 
MB, the title of this thread, "The Crushing of the Blaster"

It's an absolutely fascinating insight into the dark recesses of your mind.

Do you often talk about yourself in the 3rd person?

The weird thing is.....MasterBlaster is a made up name, right?

So, not only are you talking about yourself in the 3rd person but you are also talking about your made up name in the 3rd person, right?

This is strange enough, then you, at some point subconciously decided to use just the last part of your made up name, "the Blaster"

Its almost as if, "the Blaster" you are referring to is something that you dont fully understand.

I sincerly hope that one day you find out who "the Blaster" is and that you will then truly be at peace with who you are.

This was grover's post.
 
Oh, I forgot to say that you subconsiously left out, "Master" from the thread title, as the "Master" part of your personality would not allow itself to be associated with the "the Blaster".

There is a simple explanation for this.....Each and every climber has within them Oak tendencies and a Euc tendencies.
In your case these opposing parts of a climber's nature manifested itself in the title of this thread.

Oak = Master
Euc = Blaster

Oak tendencies simply means A careful, logical, rational approach to treework.

Euc tendencies simply means A haphazard, rushed, brute force approach to treework.
 
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Oak tendencies simply means A careful, logical, rational approach to treework.

Euc tendencies simply means A haphazard, rushed, brute force approach to treework.

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Don't forget that some of the best climbers, especially of old, are euc men at heart.

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All climbing arborists have a subconsious internal battle between our Oak tendencies and our Euc tendencies.

It is up to us individually to decide which one becomes the dominant force.

I feel that in your case(MB) the Oak is trying to defeat the Euc.

Resistance is futile.

We all eventually become Oak. If not by concious choice then by the number of near misses we have.

Our subconcious minds remember what happened the last time we tryed something unsafe, and the subconcious informs the concious of the danger, and so this is how we all become Oak.
 
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Don't forget that some of the best climbers, especially of old, are euc men at heart.



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We are all Euc at heart, but our minds cannot help but become Oak.

Its hard wired into our nature to survive, we have no choice in the matter.

We did not get to where we are now as a species by being haphazard, rushing around everywhere and using just brute force.
 
The self chosen title by MB, "The Crushing of the Blaster"
simply translates into arborspeak as, "The Oak has finally defeated the Euc"
 
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