Arial rescue.

[Frank]

thats what I thought, surely you could go down the road of a rescue needing a rescue needing a rescue and so on

 

By which time, I would have just felled the tree to save any more rescuers becoming unconsious. The tree would be like a spiders web. Haha.

[Robert_S]

Then the number of rescuers available would need to be infinite

 

Yeah but if they kept getting injured it would look like this ( i dont think the sparta troops would be watching though)

[Frank]

Yeah but if they kept getting injured it would look like this ( i dont think the sparta troops would be watching though)

 

Haha. Thats the scene I was imagining. (without the spartans of course).

[sloth]

Out of interest have people had many instances of rescuers being deployed?

 

A friend of mine was up a wysteria covered pine and cut inside his elbow 80% through according to the hospital, luckily missed the major artery by a fraction but still lost a lot of blood. He was only about 30 feet up so I managed to talk him down far as he could while I put the ladder up (which was quicker than putting my climbing gear on!) Got him down on his own system from there. He's back climbing now does that count?

[Ian Clarke]

yep that does count good thinking sloth

[Rupe]

Good work, but I dont think it does count. A non qualified person could do the same.

 

Well done though, a cool head was required more then AR ticket.

[Peter]

Talking the casualty down is always going to be quicker than rescuing them.

[The tree monkey]

it is so rare for this to happen. i have been put in situations where i had no rescue cover at all but what do you do? refuse to climb?

[Billy]

...not if you want more work from the company in question,always a tricky situation. But this thread shows, ironically, that there is little value in having an aeriel rescue qualified groundy.

[grumpydavesmith]

Before you carry out a rescue, you will have no doubt informed emergency services, so ur rescue should you need it will be on its way!