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One of the scariest things that I have ever seen was the VP/Salesman Smoking pot with crew members at the shop. When I brought it to the attention of the owner of the company, they didn't care.

Needless to say I don't work there anymore.

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No doubt, a sign of the end times!

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Once, I came in to the shop at the end of the day and the foreman had beer for EVERYBODY! I was so shocked I just went home. THEY stayed and drank beer and grilled sausage and chicken. I think they might have even smoked some of that weed stuff!
Of course, I quit them the very next day!

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I am with MasterBlaster on this one, I just couldn't stay around long if it was like that.....
 
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Once, I came in to the shop at the end of the day and the foreman had beer for EVERYBODY! I was so shocked I just went home. THEY stayed and drank beer and grilled sausage and chicken. I think they might have even smoked some of that weed stuff!
Of course, I quit them the very next day!

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I wouldn't mind having something to eat at the end of the day... but beer too... that's pushing it.

Somebody I used to work for, as soon as we'd leave the last job of the day he'd pop open a beer can. Depending on the ride back, he might only have that one, or he might have as many as 3.
 
I've split many a six-pack with a crew riding home in the crummy, but that was back when I was a wildman.
 
Scariest thing in a tree - copious amounts of my own blood.

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The wind moving your spar backwards at ya. Pucker facter 10, [...]

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Topping pines when the wind kicks up is especially disconcerting... I've stopped work twice because a front came through while I was pitching tops.
 
Nine lives, heck I've allready used them up I'm borrowing some from my dead friends who were not able to use their's all up before check out time. Just kidding!
When I look back over the years I've witnessed many things that were considered scary. Especially whole trees that sat back on the saw during either a front face cut or a final back cut. Getting sprung off of a limb when cutting off the end of a long branch is always good for a thrill ride. Getting knocked out from a stump grinder kicking back and hitting me square between the nose and eyes was not very amusing. Of course cutting down trees that are on fire is always a little nerve wracking. Not to mention approaching a tree on fire that has its roots on fire that are big enough for someone to fall into up to their hips in smoldering embers.
Cutting fronds off a palm tree and having scorpions drop on your lap is quite the hoping matter.
I remember once my ground person yelling at me right before my back cut in a top removal cut, that I was still tied in to the top that I was about to cut. Close momment early in my young career. It is a wonder how I've managed to make it this far in life? Proably a lot more in the old company files that have long since been forgoten.
What really gets scary is when equipment breaks, doesn't matter what it is, a carabiner, a block, a rope or a lowering device, whatever the case you begin to question every single component in the system. The cycle to failure is a mystery if weight levels continously excede the design of the product limitations.
The list goes on and on, the one thing that is for certain is I've not repeated any of the tough lessons I've learned in life.
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Foot locking 70' up into an ash tree (thought that it looked like the rope was over a limb) to find out that my rope was really over a sucker the size of my thumb the whole time.
 
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Foot locking 70' up into an ash tree (thought that it looked like the rope was over a limb) to find out that my rope was really over a sucker the size of my thumb the whole time.

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THAT would be SCARY!
 
Confidence high one second, running for your life the next.

In some scenarios you don't have the time to get scared. You gotta react.

After it's over you catch your breath and think, "Wow, that was scary."
 
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Confidence high one second, running for your life the next.

In some scenarios you don't have the time to get scared. You gotta react.

After it's over you catch your breath and think, "Wow, that was scary."

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That's the truth.
 
I'm afraid of the things that Tim Walsh talks about. I'm more afraid of the things he's not telling us.

Complacency is a good one though: get lazy, get dead.


And gypsies. you never know what those gypsies are going to do....
 
I've been trying to think of one the last fews days and it just came to me.

Looking down and seeing your co-worker begin to fall a tree that is limb-tied with the (half-dead, wounded, rotten) alder you're about 50' up in.

That would be mine.
 
Had a scary one today in fact.

Was piecing out a long limb in a silk oak, free dropping sections. Got close to the trunk and should of had a bigger saw sent up but stuck with the climbing saw. Undercut ended up being a bit behind the top cut, and saw got pulled down with the piece, snapped the break-away lanyard and landed thirty five feet below. No apparent damage, but defenitely bruised the ego and increased the heart rate.

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