Scariest Moment

[Mark Bolam]

Lets have it then. What was your scariest moment? Tree related.

 

Mine was early days, dismantling 100+ Lombardy. Stripped it out on the way up, left with 25' top, blowing a hooly. S**t myself, came down, had nightmares all night, went back and launched the top into neighbouring garden (severe cavities prevented slinging top off itself). Success!

 

Plenty of "disco leg" on that job I can assure you....

[welwell]

"disco leg" I like it!!!!

[gibbon]

Front joint snapping and front wheel coming off my cab star doing 40 down hill and very overloaded with wood chips

[madclimber]

Groundy accidently throwing my rope through the chipper with me still attatched

[David Humphries]

Groundy accidently throwing my rope through the chipper with me still attatched

 

 

 

That's completely unforgivable.

 

What did you do with him ?

 

 

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[madclimber]

A few choice words were said and i made him by me a new rope. i couldve throttled him. Thankfully it hasnt happened since

[Andy R]

scariest moment is when a groundie had a 372 in the back of the knee and lost 6 pints of blood.

 

second scariest is when I chunked out a slab of timber and just missed a groundie, the same groundie that had just a second ago appearred to make eye contact. Never ever made the same mistake again....

[MasterBlaster]

Hornets at 50' with me on my lanyard.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Falling 45 foot in a MEWP

[AJarb]

When I first started, my boss at the time had me deadwooding big oaks. He made me go right out on this little limb at the top of this 70ft oak to get this tiny bit of dead. My rope was anchored below me(about 5ft) and I had non-ajustable lanyard which were a nigtmare. No pruning saw, just a Husky 141 and it took me ages to get out on it and plenty of disco leg!! All learning experience though.