Update on first accident!!

[The Tree Hunter]

Well the lad is now out of hospital, but he's gonna be in a wheelchair for the next 6 months and then physio to help him walk again!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joe]

oh god, thats not good news, i hope he recovers sooner rather than later:thumbdown:

[Tommy_B]

Hope he gets better mate. Any come back on the college at all?

[Dionysus]

ouch not nice... hope he gets on his feet again m8, any news on how it happened from him?

[Tree cutter Stu]

poor kid i hope it doesnt put him off tree work to much. I hope he has the use of his legs again soon.

[The Tree Hunter]

He says he doesn't remember anything about it, before or after the fall, the college are still waiting for the health and safety people to come in and investigate it!!!!! Would've thought they'd be in straight away???

[atree]

what did he do to himself?6mths a long time,hopefully ill be outa mine next week and walk again.

[Jason James Gairn]

the college are still waiting for the health and safety people to come in and investigate it!!!!! Would've thought they'd be in straight away???

 

Er?No. Not in my experience, mostly never actually.

I hope our man regains his lofty perch soon. He on the talk at all?

[The Tree Hunter]

Er?No. Not in my experience, mostly never actually.

I hope our man regains his lofty perch soon. He on the talk at all?

 

 

He's not on here james, hopefully if he has no memory of it, he'll have nothing sitting in the back of his mind to put him off climbing in the future........although i dont see how blame can be layed at anyones feet at the college, i'd like to think that whoever is responsible for health and safety would be on the ball!!!

 

Atree he fell about 20ft out a tree and landed on his arse/back!!!!!

[Jason James Gairn]

WE had a team in the woods. It was the very first day for some guy. One of our climbers had topped out a Pop, and had left a 35ft stem to fell. He was on spikes, but decided to cut a gob into the side of the tree near the top, put his rope into it and decend on his rope. Now this gob is great when the rupe is pulling horizontally, but as he decended a few feet, the rope rolled out of the gob and he dropped in freefall from 30ft. he landed back first on the end of a log. He bounced in the air too. Screaming, potential broken spine, it was fairly full on. I used to work with agood team, phone, casualty reassurance. then a air ambulance. He broke his pelvis in half, very horrible.

I hope no-one will ever replicate this method of decent, which is why I've posted here. Also hope my description makes sense? The new guy seeing a grown man screaming in agony, never came back.