Kid climbing tree!

Pigdog

Someone needs to buy these kids some gear!
Makes me nervous watching them!

newguy18

why?i free climb like that all the timewhen i have limbs close togther.

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Pigdog

I guess I still remember my broken arms and nose when I did a belly smacker out of a tree when I was a kid! It didn't really hurt until I woke up!
I don't mind heights so long as I'm tethered to something.
Those kids are so young!

Therrin

Wow, I thought it was pretty young too when I saw how high that kid was goin, cruisin right along!

It's a good tree for it though... hehe, if they fell, they wouldn't pick up too much speed on the way down.

When I was like 12 I was way up in a pine above our old house when an earthquake hit. We lived 100 feet from the San Andreas fault line. Was quite a ride. Mom was pretty freaked out.

If it was my kid I'd end up giving em tips probably, then go find him a harness.

bigshea13

did ya notice the smoke rolling inside when they were looking threw window. they were probably being watched by their older sibling who were inside pullin bongs and listening to hanna montana sayin," hey man. this stuff would b great on utube."

newguy18

.But I don't have a bong.

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bigshea13

I could probably find you one or tell you how to build one.

Therrin

You might wanna ask Ekka before starting a bong-building thread.

newguy18

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TREE-SURFER

My 9 year old girl already has her own saddle, she loves it, but not too high though

Check this guy out for free climbing

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bigshea13

wicked!
im trying to get my little woman to try it. she keeps putting me off.

newguy18

Any back on subject I have a slash pine in my backyard that stands just a little better than 50'.i can be in the top of that tree in less than 5 minutes and the lowest stub is 8' off the ground.All with out ropes or harrnessess.

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bigshea13

do any of yous guys know any iron workers? they are the ultimate climbers. i worked with an indian doing electrical that took part in puttin the towers up on top of the empire states biulding. he has a picture of threee of them hanging from some steel over the building and not a one of them had any kind of fall protection on. they can scale an i-beam in seconds

Sean Freeman

It wasn't just American Indians... How the Irish Built an American Icon (Gotham Gazette, October 3, 2005)

Sean Freeman

I don't care what nationality they were, they were nuts!!

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Urbicide

Newguy you must be part squirrel then.

Jeff Darby

We all know we can free climb,But come on lets show kiddies how to climb safe,Promote safe climbing techniques,How many time have you slipped and fell into the trunk?? well that hurts enough imagine bouncing off all the branches to the ground? Harness and rope please.

I agree, Sean, Those blokes must have been crazylucky they dont sleep walk

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bigshea13

sorry. poorly constructed remark. the iron workers in my kneck of woods are indian but im irish and do have family that were iron workers. either way they re friggin wacked.

treevet

I just think you get used to any height you ve go to work at if you do it enough. Yesterday in the news 2 window washers fell 47 stories and , believe it or not one of them lived (500 feet approx!). Tried to send the link but it failed. Just type in ....Two window washers fall 47 floors. It was in the NY Times as well is on the national news.

newguy18

Heck I'd freeclimb steel.Whats the worst that could happen the fall don't hurt but that sudden stop sure does.

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treevet

I was free climbing a tree when I was younger (taking up my climbing line to tie in) on a hot humid day. I slipped on lichens (a non parasitic fungae-algae and my feet went right up over my head. I fell 50 feet (I measured it) but half way down I hit a limb on my back. I climbed the rest of the day to show the groundy what tough is but rolling over in bed I punctured a lung with one of the three broken ribs I had. Two weeks of suffering broken ribs is enough memory to last a lifetime. You can t laugh or cough or even sleep very much. You could ask Evil Kneivel what a lifetime of pain is like but he is dead. You will have to learn the hardway, Newguy.

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.

Sean Freeman

Treevet that is the most amazing story, so lucky to have access to such good medical care but to even be alive (if only just) after falling 47 floors my god!



The NYT article is good and so are the later pieces about his gradual recovery.

My old man who's still a practicing doctor always says there are two kinds of patients, those that can die even before you cut into them and others who you could operate on with a blunt butter knife lay all their organs on the table next to them put them back close them up and they'll live through it.......quess this bloke is one of the second group! He's also used up all his luck I'm thinking....

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treevet

Sean, that is an interesting observation from your dad I will not forget. Wonder if toughness is a learned or innate behavior or both. You know 2 dudes working washing windows at 500 feet are getting paid for guts. They aren t going to die easily.

treevet

How high were you? How far did you fall? Did the truck go into the hots? I was once working on a Sunday, exhausted at the end of the day and boomed all the way out with my 55 and looked at the truck and had no riggers down. Got away with it somehow.

newguy18

i've already fallen out of 2 trees.one was a pecan that I was rec climbing.I had limbs spaced out perfectly and I had just pulled my self up to a 4" diameter limb on one of the leaders.before I could clip in my flipline It broke and I fell 30' and landed flat as a pancake on top of my head.Believe it or not it happened and I walked away without much more than 2 broken fingers and one hell of a headache.The second time was only 15' but it happened while I was restting my climbing line and an unexpected wind came through.I think i learned the hardway.

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bigshea13

i was maybe 45 feet when i bailed. the truck went over the edge of the driveway but the boom never tookout the lines. I probably could have got a nice settlement out of it because id been telling the shop that the air canisters were leaking. they kept telling me they were going to bring one out to me but it never happened. im not the suing type. one more crazy story ta tell.
at first I thought the groundy was moving truck so i was yelling at him from the top of my lung. I realized it wasnt him when i saw him come dashing from the brush still hiking up his trousers. guess he was preoccupied.

treevet

Newguy, You need to stop freeclimbing so much, get rid of that 7/l6 line with 300 lb swl, and stop bragging about taking chances. All of us oldtimers have heard it too many times. I could literally talk for hours about accidents I have witnessed. Don t hold me to these figures, but if an object drops 2 feet it doubles in weight. If you drop 2 feet and you weigh 150 lbs and shock load your line with that crap you buy it will fail. Be more careful. This work is dangerous enough in the best of scenerios and we want you to grow old on this forum to see what a great young arborist you develop into.

TreeDimensional

I have a theory on why kids do some wild things that us older people won't, their brain isn't pain trained yet. In the past I learned that you should always venture into risky situations using the limb less useful to you. For example a right-handed person usually uses their left hand for risky situations. That theory worked great for me until I had my arm broke at a karate tournament, now I use my right arm to test the water.

Someone also mentioned if toughness is an inherited quality or a fact of just having to work hard. I believe both to be true, but I favor the strong mental attitude. Our son used to work with us on occassion, and he could go like crazy until about noon, then his Mom could out perform him. I always wondered if we as society as a whole were getting softer, According to my Dad I wouldn't have kept up with him in his day, and what I remember from my Grandad, at 65, he could outwork all of us put together.

quercus

I actually tried that once on some rock in France. I even bought a saddle for her. She rapelled down the rock, wich was about 9 feet and then she started crying and screaming to pull her up again. Some other tourist came and as I saw him I looked at his face,he said nothing and left... If he would have spoken at that time, I'm sure he would have asked what I was trying to kill!!! Needless to say she never climbed again... A few weeks ago I winched her up in a tree with the GRCS... She said it was cool and asked me what the fuss about climbing into trees was all about? She said "I didn't know your work was this easy!!!"

Here are some pictures of her and me during a small rapell down a clif to inspect some tie in point. This was not a climbing expedition but we went back with some climbers to do some serious climbing a few months later. This was a scouting trip to see what we could climb there... Verdon is the mekka of rock climbing in europe, IMO...

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