Anchor point failure?

[RTS1]

Has anyone ever experience it ?

 

 

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[AlvinD]

Yes today. Tied into thin conifer, over flexed the stem and snapped. I was spread out like a spider with legs near touching the back of my nut holding onto anything I could grab.

[Hodge]

I love it, " tied into a thin conifer" I think that says it all:)

 

 

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[mrstumpy]

My only experience is the aftermath in A&E when I was working there! four guys one anchor point failure the others all cut through their rope, all over a period of time of course! Not pretty - not at all!!

[RTS1]

I had a lime repollard today and I had a limb snap on me that you would never had expected to snap .

 

 

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[Shane]

Not the anchor point but an 8 inch diameter beech branch I was stood on.

About 45ft up. The 'slack/swing' plummet was only about 2ft (yes, never have more than 12 inches of slack) but long enough to require change of undies.

 

The branch was cracked near the trunk and I hadn't seen it.

Bl00dy lucky it wasn't my anchor point - the groundies were lucky the falling branch missed them too. No fun at all.

[Rich Rule]

Had the top snap out of a woodland oak last year. I was ascending with the rope wrench, the top snapped about 50 odd foot. Luckily I was only about 12 feet up and came down feet first. Could have been a lot worse but I still buggered my ankle.

[mistahbenn]

Happened to a mate some years back, again on a lime repollard. He was lucky.

[AlvinD]

Also yesterday I had tied my lanyard into a Ash branch about 4inch thick, although not an anchor point failure I had failed to see that it was a large epicormic branch covered in ivy. Knocked the head of the tree toward the large lateral epi branch and it performed a tear down and was left hanging. 'twas lucky the branch didn't pull down on me.

[mistahbenn]

Rich, did you have a base tie when that happened? Or a High TIP? Did the top reach the ground? What happened to your rope?