Trapped in Palm

shaggs

G'day all,
With all the talk of palms around here I thought I'd post this from youtube.
YouTube - Trimmer Trapped in a Palm
Not a bad video. We can cut it to shreds I guess but lets hope we think about it next time we tackle "the most deadly vegetation of all" (sorry)

dannyboysfc

I posted that video a while back on a palm thread. Worth thinking about before you go shimying up one of those things.

playfordtree

Yeh, i remember seeing that when you posted it danny, scary stuff.

I thought maybe it was an "old wives tale" so it was good to see it was not!

Thanks for the reminder shaggs

I'm constantly amazed by the skill and dedication of firefighters, they climb up those "freakin" huge ladders, no tie in, loaded up with gear and then have to deal with a distressed and or injured person at the top.

Then something like this happens.

YouTube - Bad fall

Here's to firefighters

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TreeSpecialist

The guy was lucky he didn't die. Frequently when palms shed the huge bundle of dead fronds, they land on the climbers head in such a way as to make it difficult to breathe. Try it by having someone push your head down to your chest with a couple of hundred pounds of weight. Your trachea becomes restricted and you can't breathe.

Any palm with more than a 2 year's worth of dead fronds (1 year's worth in some tropical locales) should be trimmed using a bucket or lift device.

This guy was also lucky that someone noticed him up the tree - the original story I read said he was working alone.

gump

lucky alright.
have heard of a few stories of people having bad experiences with those types of palms.

they could of used a bucket truck, the fire ladder had a perfect reach!

gump

and it was now where near fully extended.

shaggs

Sorry boys for the double posting. Some good info there.
Whilst you brought up fireys falls, heres a weird one!!!
YouTube - Firefighters Fall