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Originally Posted by bigshea13  i was trimmin from a bucket 7-8 yrs ag when the brakes cut loose. the truck began to roll down the hill . the boom was almost vertical over the lines..so I unhooked and bailed for the nearest tree.............too short. i fell and hit a stone wall fracturing my leg. instead of going to hospital i took it easy and did strictly bucket work for next two week. later that summer i was waterskiing and showing off by holding rope with my foot and giving the finger to my pals in the boat. we d been drinking and i fell. nearly compound and it was a spiral fracture on my femur. now i have titanium rod embedded into my leg. the doc told me id only have 75% motion from then on.. thankfully he was wrong...no problems here.  |
I'd hired a 60' Nifty Lift for the day to prune an Acer as my harness was away being tested (LOLER regs). It was powered by a 110volt pump, with control switches, not valves, in the bucket to manoeuvre with. Part way through the job, I needed to move under a branch and for some reason, it didn't want to move. I kept trying the switch, when the flaming thing dropped 6 feet. Damn near dropped my load in my shorts
. I didn't hesitate into jumping outta the basket and into the tree where I felt safer, only to then watch, as the boom fully descended with a bump. Damn, I was shakin like a dog takin a dump. Descended on the lowering rope and waited for my harness to come back from testing station before completing the job.