Its frigged up. Its a good reminder. I made myself watch the medical procedure. Do not want!
I watched some of his videos. Dangerous! He got swatted by a huge spinning log that could have crushed him like a fly, instead only hit him, including in the helmet ('side job', probably exhausted after a work week, dehydrated, full sun and heat), trying to save black walnut logs.
Looks like he's in, too fast, too deep, with a shitty boss willing to expose his crew to bad/ terrible conditions. He bailed out on a rotten, rotten tree that the other climber had fallen out of. He got a line set and was spiking up the first couple feet of the rotten base before bailing out (SMART), but set out to do it initially.
Many video near misses, and cursing then things did what was looked like they would do. Dropped a lead into an adjacent tree, but the rope didn't somehow make it go into the open drop-zone.
Uses some weird rigging knot that looks like several round turns, then clove hitch the working end back to the line to terminate, and another that looks like a slip-knot. No thank you.
Wishing him a speedy recovery.
Tree work videos look like James Bond action and all, but never show what all the mental considerations really are. More likely they're choreographed well to music. Gives a false sense of 'things will be alright'.
Gear and internet doesn't produce good judgment, like those teenagers dying in the Sierras, put up to A-game material with rookie experience.
Good experience comes from good judgment. Good judgment comes from bad experiences. Hopefully a bunch of small bad experiences.
As Reg put it so succinctly--- no frig-it cuts.