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Originally Posted by TreeSpecialist  Sounds like he was doing everything right except that he was working by himself. |
Hang on, in 1/2 hour emergency crews are there.
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Fire department officials had to bring in a crane to remove the cut part of the tree before removing Brown. It took crews over four hours, and by then he was dead.
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So they got all the bells and whisltes and it took them 4 hours.
The man was crushed between the top and the trunk with the section caught in his harness.
WTF would have another climber done that a crane and bucket couldn't?
It's comments like that which bring in 10K more safety BS regs. Not having a rescue climber there wasn't the problem obviously or the rescuers would have got him out quickly themselves. But they had to get the load off the guy.
The guy was at it 32 years, he was felling the top out but somehow it got caught in his harness. Now that is the part that needs looking into.
Poor fella, condolences to the family.