skyhuck

The lack of chain brake is the real issue here!! A steel visor may have been better, but that could have injured your face or eyes??

He was winching the hook into the end of the boom!!!, no wonder the wire snapped!! That happened to a mate of mine years ago, the boom was up in the foliage, so the driver did not realise the block had hit the top of the boom, my mate had the chain round his arm when the hook block came crashing through the crown, fortunately he shook the chain off his arm or he would have lost his arm!!

But surly if your yard was miles away, you would have not got home till 1, with the drive?? My yard has always been next to my home, I could not imagine have a yard away from home, would be a total PITA, IMO.

My 461 is awesome!!!, better I would say than the stollen 460 its replaced. What I really want is a 660 with the new caps!!

With no spring, there is no brake, of any sort.

That looks real sore, hope it heals fast. Good on you for posting, most would just keep quiet, very honest of you and will help others to learn from your errors. This close shave (as it really could have been very, very much worse) could actually be a blessing in disguise, many years ago when I had only been climbing for a couple of years, I made a very foolish error. I had been climbing all morning, dismantling a Maple, finished it and came down for lunch. In the afternoon there was a Lime to winch over, the chain needed installing at about 15'. No need for a harness, just spikes, nip up chain in, nip down, right, what could go wrong?? So I tide a piece of thin blue polyprop to the chain and the other end to a belt loop on my pants. Up I spike, into all the greenery you get on Limes. I stand on a nice thick 8" limb and pull the chain up using the rope, as the chain leaves the floor the limb snaps off and I head down!!!! (the limb was dead, but was surrounded by live growth so looked alive) I landed stood up and squatted right down then jumped back up. I was shook up but seemed OK. Unfortunately the numpty I was working for had cut an Elder, leaving a pointed stub, that stub had gone 6" into my thigh. I ended up in hospital overnight for an operation to clean the wound and a fortnight off work while I healed, BUT it could have been much, much worse. Any way the point I'm taking an age to get to is, that accident was 18 years ago and its the only one I've had, I learned my lesson and don't take risks.

Get the 461, I got one a few weeks back, wow!! cracking saw, almost as good as a 66!!!

The tree would be unlikely to seal a wound of that size, leaving a 2M peg reduces the chances of substantial decay into the retained stem.

I've been taking ibuprofen for the last 2 weeks, got a back problem, I'm going to a physiotherapy drop in clinic next week to hopefully get it sorted.

I would not say that is defiantly the result of BC, but BC can cause that sort of damage, but it may have recovered from the BC, it looks to be compartmentalising the damage.

Farmers can be murder for wanting every penny of what they think or are told something is worth, even if no one's willing to pay it, they seem to prefer to let something rot or stand empty than risk giving someone a bargain, IME.

Might even have been 9.15, well late!!!!!!!!!

Me and my brother were only allowed to stay up and watch it if we got our PJ's on and when straight up to bed as soon as it finished, used to love it!!

Fortunate it was not a pedestrian or cyclist.

Your an employee, so your fellow workers are your bosses concern, not yours.

Got to agree with treequip, best to learn to get it right just using a file, IMO.

Blocked shoot suggests rotor going too slowly.

Dead things are worst, once had a dead squirrel up a tree, boy did that stink!!

16.75t

This is exactly what I do Washing clothes ruins them, so not only do you need less they also last longer. Good boots is very important, I always had terrible feet in the winter, chilblains etc, I got my first pair of Haix about 10 years ago and have had no foot trouble since.

What damage did the free fall cause???

No, Entec became Timberwolf, just a rebrand.

What if its in gear???

These days I'm not sure most come into tree work for the money (it used to may much better) in fact I think many work for ridiculously low rate.