Arborist falls down from tree - GIF

[Altair]

Arborist falls down from tree.




Previously:

Tree cutting mayhem - GIF
Rotten tree felling near disaster - GIF
Tree cutter falls after being knocked off by cut branch - GIF
Palm tree cutting near disaster - GIF
Pruned branch nearly hits arborist and assistant - GIF

[mr mikey]

one lucky guy.

[bob_3000]

Getting out of bed the next day would be interesting, he flopped every joint, muscle and bit of cartilage in his body in directions they haven't seen since the day he came out of his Momma's coochie.

[Inner]

What Mr. Mikey said, one lucky guy!

Loved the conversation:
Told ya!
Hey ya okay?
Yeah. (by which he means he is still alive.)
I told ya it was gonna happen man.

My best guess is he was trying to "top off" like half the tree in one cut instead of several chunks. He skipped that physics class about equal and opposite reactions. And that logging class about tying off properly.

[mwmkravchenko]

He'll feel that one for the rest of his life.

Wonder how much skin he lost to the tree bark. Woof!

Mark

[Hoosiersmoker]

That is the definition of $h!t whipped!

[Rikk]

His own fault, or his mentor's fault. When you have removed all the limbs, you have nothing to dampen the spring.

Took the top out of a ~125' tall pine. I was about 80-100 feet up and it was like being on a flag on a bicycle when we were kids... To avoid what happened above, take one of your lanyards, you must use two when running a saw by OSHA, and you wrap it completely around the tree then clip it back to your saddle. The lanyard has 540 degrees of contact with the trunk. Then, when your spurs get knocked out of the trunk, the worst you get is a few bruises when the looped lanyard bites and slams you into the trunk. Once things settle down, you laugh about it, unclip the wrapped lanyard so you can climb down and start chunking it down to the ground.