Sorry for the loss and pain @cashmoneytreeboy Any details of the accident we can use as a lesson or learning experience?
Tree man.
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Yes @cashmoneytreeboy we'd all like to know more. Not names, just what happened?
Please, share his experience/s with us. He was dear to you....we'd like to know more.
This is a thread of honor....no?
evo
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im sorry to hear about the loss. It may help you and others to process if some details of the accident are shared.
Names aren’t needed or any detail that would disclose who, I’m just thinking knowing what led up to the event and the cause.
Sometimes this understanding helps with grief and loss even if it doesn’t change it.
I know my friends, family, colleagues would like to know if I passed in a car accident. Yet they would certainly get something from knowing if I was rear ended by a drunk, crushed by a falling tree, or lost control and went over a cliff.
Names aren’t needed or any detail that would disclose who, I’m just thinking knowing what led up to the event and the cause.
Sometimes this understanding helps with grief and loss even if it doesn’t change it.
I know my friends, family, colleagues would like to know if I passed in a car accident. Yet they would certainly get something from knowing if I was rear ended by a drunk, crushed by a falling tree, or lost control and went over a cliff.
I just did. I read the guy fell out of a bucket truck. Died later after being air lifted to a hospital.
Not much else was mentioned.
Matias
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I am always curious how a guy fell out of a bucket. More than one thing had to go wrong, and if someone had additional details that might serve as a warning/reminder to the community... Well that person might be saving someone elses life by sharing that kind of story...
Maybe he wasn't in the bucket. Good friend of mine used to run a 55' on some trees. Of course a 55 would run short..... sometimes, he'd stand on the brim to lop of a limb. Foolish indeed. It would be the one or two limbs obstructing clearance for popping out the top.
I hope the OP gets back to us with some details.
evo
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We lost a long time classic a while back. He had a bucket that was rated for lifting things like transformers.
Apparently he would occasionally rig from it, went to big and fishing poled it without wearing a harness.
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this was a bad idea. I am wrong
I’m a liar
WTF?
Condolences to you and your friend's loved ones.
We just wanted to know more.
Peace out kid.....
Matias
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It was at least as good of an idea as hoisting a lawnmower with a crane to trim some hedges. I am curious what your expectations of us were? We have offered our genuine condolences and words of comfort, and anyone who said as much was 100% sincere, but this is a forum for discussion. I can see that you've been around here since 2007, so none of this should come as a surprise.
Matias
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I am guilty of standing on the rim a time or two as well, but I thought I would have been caught by my lanyard if I fell. Your friend wouldn't have unclipped himself to pull such a foolish maneuver, right?
For the record, I had to stop working for the guy that kept expecting me to do stuff like that, partly because he was always pushing me to go faster, even if it meant unsafe work practices.
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Matias
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I have done some sketchy things that I have lived to regret, but you'll never catch me not wearing a harness/lanyard operating any kind of lift, much less rigging off of the bucket; I don't care what it's rated for. When I have used lifts rated for two people, I would accumulate pieces in the bucket, then fly out to a drop zone and then drop them all, and I always stay conservative with the loads.
The people that called me slow would always be compromising on safety to go faster.
It's interesting how infrequently we hear stories of people following all the safety protocols dying tragically in a work accident...
TreeCo
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So sorry to hear of this accidental death. It may not be the death that is the subject of this thread, but it is just as sad, and likely preventable.
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Tree Worker Dies After Apparent Fall In Tolland, ID Released: Reports
An ID of the person who died after an apparent fall has been released.
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Clipped in......not to bucket or the tree.
It was his show and, his truck.
I've preformed some practices deemed ''un safe'' by the book but, nothing like that.
So OP, you speaking out now, in your thread, sharing what you know of this incident may prevent someone else from the same fate.
A foolish act or not, WE ARE NOT HEAR TO JUDGE. You shown evidence in your first posts you don't want him disrespected. None here will.
In fact, talking to us may possibly help you heal. Up to you, I will bother you no more my friend.
A foolish act or not, WE ARE NOT HEAR TO JUDGE. You shown evidence in your first posts you don't want him disrespected. None here will.
In fact, talking to us may possibly help you heal. Up to you, I will bother you no more my friend.
Matias
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Sooooo, a crane? My imagination isn't giving it to me here.
Clipped back onto the harness maybe
No crane, no harness. He would some times just "free stand" on the rim of the bucket. For removing obstructing limbs that would interfere with a clean top drop. The top would be dropped while in the bucket. It would be a limb on in the top, threatening damage to a structure or catching another tree and negatively effecting a clean drop.
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