Video of a climber getting pitched

Wow! The narrator called him a professional.
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One lucky bastid! I hope he learned from that.
 
I've taken heat now and then because I prefer to climb a little farther and take smaller pieces when cutting laterals. It's not as fast but if I have targets below me I'd rather not risk losing control of huge pieces.

It's hard to find a balance when I'm up in the tree and someone is on the ground acting like I'm a wuss because I want go with three sections instead of one or two. Normally it's not MY safety I'm worried about so much as who and what are below me if something goes wrong.

With all that said... he shoulda ditched his iPod and paid attention to his ropes! ...I think he must've nicked that one with a saw.
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This is how I see it;

Climber falling video

1. The branch he took was too big and heavy.

2. He was natural crotching, using blocks and lowering devices correctly allows for a more predictable outcome, natural crotching is subject to more unknowns(friction force over limb, tension on wraps, rope digging into crotch.

3. He left far too big a belly in the rope, which allowed the branch to drop too far and it built up more force as it fell further this combined with the force of friction over the crotch allowed for rope failure.

4. Because of the angle and weight of that stem he should have put a block in the main stem with the rigging rope going through that block 1st then into a redirect block on the branch he was taking out, this would have meant the main stem took most of the load of the branch and helped to dissipate the load throughout the whole tree. He could have then continued to lower the whole stem in sections through his redirect block, with the block in the main stem taking most of the load.

5. He only has 1 tie in point on the main stem, he should have been tied below the branch he was cutting.

6. Looks like it was the tail end of his line that saved him from a bad pendulum into the main stem.

7. He makes the top cut one handed, possibly because he is expecting a big ride so he holds on to a stub on with his left hand. He was lucky the movement of the tree didn't make him cut his left hand with the saw.

8. He is not wearing a helmet with a chinstrap, looks like he is wearing a baseball cap which flies off much the same way a groundie hardhat with no chinstrap would.

9. His saw gets ripped off at high velocity and is seen moving at high speed out of the tree. Probably the best outcome.

10. Lastly, it seems he carries on with the takedown, a big mistake given what has just happened, he should have finished it the next day after he had been for a medical checkup. It also would have given him the opportunity to inspect his harness rope and biners etc for damage( especially after his saw was ripped from his harness)

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IMO, I would suggest smaller pieces.

Maybe puting a line in the spar and swinging them back to the spar, after he re-tied into the branch he was standing on.

I never like lowering off og the same thing I am on. unless they are really small pieses.

I had a tree break one time and I went down with it.



the first thing i noticed about this guy is the way he was straddling the branch in one of the first shots.

sure sign of a beginer. nervous or unaware that to trust his ropes and sit out is mch more secure.
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5. He only has 1 tie in point on the main stem, he should have been tied below the branch he was cutting.



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grover are you suggesting that he should have had a 2nd tie in on the branch he was cutting?
 
man i wasnt far from that today, but i had two lanyards on and i only scraped up my forearms and i swear two drops of pee came out, i love when something like this makes you feel like you have no idea what your doing, going big isnt always a good idea, you know whats crazy, when i first saw this video i laughed, thought he was an idiot and went about my day, wouldnt you know it the next day i get caught in a crazy situation, im not going to judge him and im definatly not going to act as if i havent done something this stupid before but with a more positive outcome than that, todays accident was avoidable, but luckily i took precautions from getting seriously hurt and i definatly learned from my mistake
 
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ha, all you guys have plenty of bad words to speak of cause i believe they are tryin to delete this thread, we should all learn from our mistakes, and to watch something like this should make us all remember when we last made one, by the way, i hate bein censored and i hate even more being silenced, cursing is part of the world, it is what it is and it makes people who they are, or at least contributes to their own personalities, let us be who we are, and even though i didnt curse i dont see why those who wanted to should be silenced
 
looked like the two leads were oscillating at different wavelengths and on the third one they combined with each other. Creating one larger wavelength...catching even the climber off guard. The climber was riding on big "tuning fork". It looked like the release of that first lead sent a shock wave down the lead he was standing on and back up the other lead, this came back on the third wave and combined with the lead he was in and seemed to triple the force of movement.

This is kind of like how a tsunami's second wave combines with the outgoing first wave and becomes larger in magnitude, by 2 and 3 times, catching people on shore by surprise.
energy is never created nor destroyed.

every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

looked like a prized, seasoned bull.
 
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