Cambium Climber
Tree Houser
What was your worst accident; on the job or rec climbing?
Just through the wood of the tree I assume, or did you touch a wire?Zapped by a primary in 06. Thought I was a goner.
takes a real man to admite you are scaredThrough a small bit of sucker growth on a weeping willow. Removal, so I was spiking up and cutting little stuff out with handsaw on my way to the tie in points. One laid across the wire after I cut it. I didn’t know it was on the wire, I grabbed it to toss it down, and was immediately like locked up as if someone had a pause button for me. I had the sucker touching the wire in my left hand, I just wanted to open my left hand and let go, but I couldn’t. I had to hit my left arm with my right hand to break the connection. It was so hard to make that little bit of motion happen.
I came out of that tree around 8am, called the boss, and told him I’m done for the day. There was two other capable climbers on the crew, me leaving wasn’t a big screwing for everyone else, so they went to a different job and I went home to be with my lady and my kids. I really needed my family after that incident.
Weeks later we did the job. I had a chance at round 2, but I chickened out and worked the ground while Eric climbed. It wasn’t particularly tricky, but I was spooked.
how high?Fell out, 6 ribs.
I had really bad hemorrhoids and the customer caught me putting suppositories up my arse behind their shed.
I saw a millwright in training get put on probation for grinding aluminum on a bench grinder before. I had no idea that was a possibility and it just as easily could’ve been me taking a chunk of aluminum to that wheel.Grinding wheel exploded in my face in 95, lost 4 teeth and gained 63 stitches.
Probably throwing the balance offI'm not understanding the physics. It melts and clogs, so it quits grinding as well. Why does the wheel come apart?