No idea tbh, and that’s not what I meant (but wasn’t written very well!).
Where I was coming from is that if there had been at least one person on the site with windblow experience then I can’t see how the job would have been allowed to proceed the way it did.
There are plenty of lads who climb trees (some very well to be fair) all day every day who have no forestry experience, and have never used any machinery other than chainsaws and chippers. They possibly had to get a small hung-up tree onto the floor with their felling lever during CS31 - that’s the limits of their knowledge of dealing with windblow and tension/compression etc. There is nothing really wrong with this, and it doesn’t necessarily make them unsafe in their day-to-day work pruning trees in back gardens.
I don’t know the lad who was injured (and I wish him nothing but the best - some of my posts may appear critical towards him personally and that’s not what I’m getting at) but I do know of several other climbers who would potentially unknowingly put themselves in harms way in a similar fashion.
If a team is sent to deal with a job and they are unaware of other ways of approaching a problem then they are obviously going to do what they know best - in this case it would appear that was climbing and cutting the tree free.
All on site had a role to play, and they all appear to be entirely unaware of the potential outcome in the vids (which suggests naivety and/or inexperience).
The entire thing is horrible, and I really hope that the climber heals well.