What's wrong with this photo?

[eveled]

Dieing from a fall is literally a nightmare. I bet it seems like slow motion while you are falling, and you know it’s going to hurt. A lot.

I think this guy in Arizona died from being attacked from something living in the dead stuff that he was cutting off.

The dead stuff on a palm tree accumulates in a big shaggy ball under the green leaves. If it isn’t maintained it becomes very dense. Sometimes all the way to the ground if it was never trimmed.

It seemed to be one of the few things that needed maintenance there. I don’t think they are native.

There were several deaths from flash floods while we were there too. I can’t imagine being there as a settler back in the day.

 

[Killer Bee]

I had thought about that before. There is a red oak I want to take down close to my house. I'm honestly thinking about renting a boom lift so I can get up there & cut it down in sections without being in the tree. If it were in a different place I'd just pull it with the truck & a rope but it is in a tight spot.

I rented an electric towable for a lineman buddy to restore some downed overhead lines on the farm.

worked great! charge lasted a long time and it was very stable working platform.

took advantage of the time we had it so he trimmed some limbs in the powerline paths around the buildings.

 

[Jeepnik]

When I was in Phoenix. A tree guy died trimming a palm tree. I guess it’s a really dangerous job.

What's really fun is to watch all the tree rats come running out when the ball hits the ground.

 

[Neon Vernon]

What's really fun is to watch all the tree rats come running out when the ball hits the ground.

I've seen it!

 

[blume357]

Friends in the chimney business have gotten so busy with work they had to buy two lifts.... I should've borrowed one for the repair of the front of our house.... I rented one of those tow behind electric ones a few years back for a week to do some jobs and it was a pretty good adventure.

Dieing from a fall is literally a nightmare. I bet it seems like slow motion while you are falling, and you know it’s going to hurt. A lot.

Back in 2019 when I fell there was no slow motion... it was so fast I did not have time to think. Ladder slipped I hit the roof below me bounced and then landed in the front yard.

 

[eveled]

Doing Evel Knievel stuff when I was younger. The time in the air was in slow motion, then sped up when I made impact and started flipping and sliding on the ground. It was always a very surreal experience.

 

[MaxMan]

He should have a rope around his neck , to keep him upright in case he falls.

What did h ever do to you?

 

[Busterswoodshop]

What did h ever do to you?

Just trying to help out.
Can you imagine what would happen , if he fell and landed on his head ?

 

[Joey]

Just trying to help out.
Can you imagine what would happen , if he fell and landed on his head ?

Several years ago a friend who owned a roofing co was on a two-story roof with no safety line. He fell, bounced off a walk board between floors and hit the ground. Stove in several ribs, put him in a body cast for a couple weeks. After it was evident he was going to be all right I called and asked him, "How high does a roofer bounce when he hits the ground from a 2-story house?" His reply was unprintable! After that experience he wore fall protection while up there!

 

[ole442]

A few years ago, a tree trimmer tied himself off to a limb and then proceeded to cut that limb closer to the tree trunk. Needless to say, he made a very rapid decent and became a statistic! I just heard it on the news and know no other particulars. The amateurs will weed themselves out!

I just paid a trimmer $2800.00 to cut down a very large and a medium sized walnut trees and grind the stumps. I'm old and it was money well spent.

 

[MaxMan]

Just trying to help out.
Can you imagine what would happen , if he fell and landed on his head ?

Wow your right. You must work for OSHA.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

Wow your right. You must work for OSHA.

Well , no , but I have been fined by them for not wearing proper safety gear.

 

[stonebuster]

A few years ago, a tree trimmer tied himself off to a limb and then proceeded to cut that limb closer to the tree trunk. Needless to say, he made a very rapid decent and became a statistic! I just heard it on the news and know no other particulars. The amateurs will weed themselves out!

I just paid a trimmer $2800.00 to cut down a very large and a medium sized walnut trees and grind the stumps. I'm old and it was money well spent.

I agree 100%. I let the pros do the tree work in my yard and they deserve every dollar I pay them. I don't even clean my second floor gutters anymore. It doesn't take much of a fall to change your life. I met a man in a motorized wheelchair who was paralyzed when he fell from a ladder cleaning his first floor gutters. Another who fell from a ladder cleaning his gutters and his leg got caught between the rungs, broke both bones in his lower leg required a lot of surgery. A friend I worked with slipped in the shower and is now in a wheelchair for life. I cut and split @6-7 cords of firewood for heating my house every year and have for 35yrs and using a chainsaw for 50+yrs but on the ground only.

 

[protoolman]

The photo is ai I guarantee. No need to figure out how what he is doing could be legit. Same reason you see mistakes in my all advertising. As for tree trimming you couldn't pay me enough to use a chainsaw in the air. I ll gladly pay a " pro" and a licensed insured one for sure. My homeowners insurance hopefully never has to get involved. Tree trimmers are kinda like bullriders, mx racers etc. They all die in an accident, retire crippled, continue working crippled etc. The smart ones quit while they're still young and healthy and find a different occupation. My old neighbor still does it and he uses a bucket truck a lot but climbs the really big oaks when the bucket just isn't workable. He's always passing on climbing really rotten unsafe trees, but there's always some 1/2 price daredevil with no insurance willing to do it that's fearless.

 

[blume357]

I'll say it again.. I see no problem with the way he is doing it. Can use both sides of the chain.. heck I've even used the very point to just go straight in.

Speaking of falling, the S.C. Chimney Sweep Guild is hosting a fall protection class in July... if this 2 day class was given anywhere else the cost per student would be around $1,500... I worked for years to figure a why to stop the nonsense of charging our members for things and with the help of some fellow sweeps we have pretty much offered training for free for the last 30 years ....the current powers that be, I'm old and retired now and have little say, did decide to charge for this one just to register... $100.

 

[rovernut]

Kind of a tangent but some great chainsaw work in movie “sometimes a great notion’ with Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. Logging looks to be serious hard and dangerous work

Funny you should mention that movie. My then girlfriend at the time, when it came out, made us leave the theater. She was my first girlfriend so I didn't think to tell her I'd get her a cab.
I didn't get to see the whole movie until years later.
And yes, it is dangerous work, coming from personal experience.

Limping,
Tom

 

[rovernut]

I thought about notching but he's over half way through. That's going to bind the bar. Not to mention when you notch you cut on an angle not straight through. I'd almost bet they hired a male model who's never used a saw before.

He is cutting at an angle, looks like he's working on a Humboldt. But you're right, he's gone too deep.
Alternatively he may have no clue and is cutting all the way through like that.
I see a lot of clueless people cutting the back cut at an angle.

 

[Mike J]

Well , no , but I have been fined by them for not wearing proper safety gear.

I've never been fined by them but there was one time we left before they got there. It was back in the early 90's. We were working at Lockheed. The foreman I was working with got a call that they were walking another job our company had going on there & would be coming to see us next. We broke down the scaffolding & everything else we had been using. We went to the shop & spent the rest of the day working there.

 

[Jeepnik]

Can't say whether dying from a fall hurts or is in slow motion. But having fallen from a helicopter all I can say is yea, when I regained consciousness everything hurt. And as to the fall, the last thing I remember was taking a shower before work about 5 hours earlier. Probably a good thing. Folks that saw it said I bounced.

 

[blume357]

Ouch...
One of the hypocrisies is the big deal about OSHA and employee safety... I could do what ever I wanted how I wanted and never had to worry about them showing up and fining me... I have friends in my industry that have been and one or two very seriously like thousands of dollars.. why did I not have to worry... sole non incorporated proprietor working for himself.... the reason I wrote it that way is once you get incorporated even if you own the company / corporation you are now technically an employee....