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Excellent question. Thank you. Surely, it's how we learn the finer points.

It appears the rigging line tangled in that fellows life-line (climbline).

Those damn monocots . They do accent landscapes nicely. I'll always remember long white sand beaches lined with nodding Palms... and in the next frame an M-60 tank barrels through the scene. Damn! Ruined a wet dream. Yeah, palms do accent landscape nicely.

I'll admit... it was well executed.

Nah, a pro would've jumped off the ladder just before it hit the ground. Just my opinion.

With that "funny" crook in the trunk it's hard to tell where the vertical lies, and estimate the true lean in the top. It appears the top grew off a tree that was forced over when it was younger. Hence the crook in the stem. I've seen a million of them in the woods. I also worked in a...

Forest Monarchs! Big tops! Great images. Thank you.

Those phone cables saved the day.

Wow!

In the 1960's the standard Driver's Training Course in high school had a film, a compilation of gruesome accidents, compiled by the CHP just to impress upon kids the importance of driving safe and sane. You only need to watch that film once. They should still have driver's-ed in schools...

I been knocked out of my spurs a number of times, and from those episodes I learned to secure my perch. Though, in the learning years lady-luck was definitely on my side.

insane

Why do I watch those vids? morbid curiosity?

That could have been bad. Better to be lucky than good in that case.

That's a blessing in itself.

I watch that vid some time ago. It was a mighty close call for Granny and damn the fool for getting her there. There's other issues in the vid that only a tree tramp could see for sure.

That's what it looked like to me. Bone dry and light as can be. The hinge nearly stalled it.

It's a short lived profession for most amateur sorts.

It looked bad before it even happened.

I thought for sure it was going to collapse the boom. But they go lucky.