Hope this wasn't any of you

Therrin

Wow, check out this link on YouTube!

Just watching it makes my head spin.

Sean Freeman

Yep thats an oldie but a goodie (or baddie?) that guy would have been sore for a week after that ride pretty rough alright.
Sad to say I've had a couple of rides not too disimilar over the years......

Ace Master

yep i had a ride like that before too, it happens quick to quick but you get on with it and lean from your mistakesi am sure more have had the same ride too.

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Eric Frei

Bad top snatch video| bad ride

3mins and 3mb WMV digitally enhanced view of that video I have had for some time, it's slowed and zoomed with some stills. The man is very lucky.

Only one tie in point, his flip line, and it was a few stubs that saved him and stabbed him.

www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/yeeha.wmv

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Sean Freeman

Yep those stubs must have left the oddest looking marks! He could always say he was attacked by a giant octopus

TreeCo

He's lucky he didn't get a body part pulled into the pulley by the running rope!

southern_touch

So what was his mistake, cause i sure don't want this to happen to me. Did he make his attachment point to high? if you know what I mean? The distance from his block to the attachment point.

southern_touch

A climber i hired did the same thing the other day. The tree he was in was leaning though. I think that makes the kickback even worse and more dangerous. i thought the top of the pole was going to snap off.

Eric Frei

Too big a top really, that was the biggest factor besides not letting it run as much as could but we dont know what was down there.

Whip sticks.

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shaggs

I bet he had a good word to his groundie when he got down.

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Eric Frei

Hahaha

And here's the bloke who taught him.

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Therrin

Wow, that video is amazing....

Somebody please tell me that they did all that on purpose.

I just know someone's gonna get on here and be like "see!! see!! THAT is what happens when you ONE-HAND a chain saw!"

mike porter

wooooo. thats nutty,,,,,,ridem boy

arborjockey

If you watch it in full play and listen really well. youll understand he will have more then a talk w/ the groundy. somebody says oh sh-- or sorry ......I cant remember in regard to not letting the rope run ..its on youtube some where try this one its called "tree cutting 1" the guy is just as risky big load, small tree, poor rigging tech

Levi Parkin

that has to be the most amazing thing on the internet.
there are a lot of "tree services" like that around here. they make us look good.

oldschool

I thought stubs were bad

fatdog

If your ass get slammed onto them they are not the best things in the world,

clarke mcclymont

thats one cracker of a stuff-up;he should have had another point of contact
but i must say the blame really falls on the clown on the end of the rope;the
head should of been 'plonked' and if he had a friction drum it really is quite simple provided youve got a good man on the drum. it wasnt too big the head but youve got to let it run further than that to eliminate the whip lash effect; you can hear the groundy yellin "sorry,sorry"!! bet he got some verbal punishment when the climber got down. cheers clarke

spartek

Ha,Ha , Been there and done that myself. If I was the groundman, I'd be like,,,"time for me go , see ya" FRIENDSHIP SEVERED