Last spring a friend fell out of a tree, 20 feet up when then branch he was cutting swung and took out the ladder he was standing on. This all was told to me by his wife after the fact. I know he was a hunter and asked her why he didn't use hi s hunters safety belt. She wished he had. Anyway, when my neighbors ask me to cut his tree down, I said ok, but not without my saddle. I attached my climbing sticks 's and secured myself e of with lineman belt and tree strap. I cut off branches as I went up and cut sections off from the top_down. This tree was too close to both our houses to comfortably cut it down in one fell swoop. Anyway, when the last big limb near the t lol broke loose, I was glad for my NT Evolution as the tree shook violently. I will never go up any tree without it. I never feel unsafe in a tree with it.