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What was YOUR moment of truth?

Christmas morning 09 i hung upside down for 4 1/2 hrs in my climbing stand till a guys son found me, no big deal, just had to have my hipp and both knees replaced. Liver went back to working rite about a month later.
 
harold wright said:
Christmas morning 09 i hung upside down for 4 1/2 hrs in my climbing stand till a guys son found me, no big deal, just had to have my hipp and both knees replaced. Liver went back to working rite about a month later.
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Wow, glad you pulled through that. Sounds like a very miserable experience. Sorry to hear that.
 
harold wright said:
Christmas morning 09 i hung upside down for 4 1/2 hrs in my climbing stand till a guys son found me, no big deal, just had to have my hipp and both knees replaced. Liver went back to working rite about a month later.
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Care to elaborate? Hung from... Harness? Feet stuck in platform stirrups? Were you conscious that whole time?

Treestand failure? User error? Would like to learn more if you don't mind sharing...
 
Blinginpse said:
And There i was smeared in olive oil....light on at the end of the bed, shadows glaring off the wall, Boones farm and marvin gaye

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Oh dang, I can't even think of a witty reply to that one. Your a funny guy bling.
Edit: was it extra virgin, or no longer a virgin?
 
DB4x4 said:
Care to elaborate? Hung from... Harness? Feet stuck in platform stirrups? Were you conscious that whole time?

Treestand failure? User error? Would like to learn more if you don't mind sharing...
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I would say party at Blings the night before, but he didn’t say whether his skivvies were on backwards or not so I’m not 100% certain......either way, there was alcohol involved. And maybe some NLVOO......
 
I’ve had multiple moments of truth in the woods but the big one was having a mild stroke in 2015, no reason identified. The meaning of mortality really set in. Now when I climb with a JX3 I wear an RC harness under the Hybrid, I use both lineman and advance a tether on the way up, and then use the linesman as a backup tether to the RC harness once I’m set up. A fall could happen but two ropes would have to break before I hit the ground. I’m on a mild blood thinner forever so Im also not anxious to spear a stick step into my leg.
 
My “moment of truth” wasn’t super dramatic but a great reminder that I take with me every time I climb a tree. A few years ago I was prepping a tree for a ROS and I got so used to leaning back into my lineman’s belt that when I took it off, I started to lean back into it and realized i hadn’t hooked it back up yet. There was one brief moment of pucker before I grabbed a limb and righted myself. That’s a bad feeling when your brain goes to another place and time slows down as you start to fall. Won’t forget it.

As said above, the moral of the story is to go slow and always be conscious of what you’re doing. Check all your connections to the tree and make sure you always have at least one - even if it’s inconvenient and slows you down. It’s not worth dying over.
 
drew13 said:
My “moment of truth” wasn’t super dramatic but a great reminder that I take with me every time I climb a tree. A few years ago I was prepping a tree for a ROS and I got so used to leaning back into my lineman’s belt that when I took it off, I started to lean back into it and realized i hadn’t hooked it back up yet. There was one brief moment of pucker before I grabbed a limb and righted myself. That’s a bad feeling when your brain goes to another place and time slows down as you start to fall. Won’t forget it.

As said above, the moral of the story is to go slow and always be conscious of what you’re doing. Check all your connections to the tree and make sure you always have at least one - even if it’s inconvenient and slows you down. It’s not worth dying over.
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Thanks for sharing and glad your ok!
 
Mine wasn't a hunting incident either but it did involve a tree! We were cleaning up trees in our neighborhood after a hurricane and I was on the tractor with my cousin(boss at the time) in the bucket cutting the trees! We came across two pretty big pine trees laying basically on top of each other so when he cuts the first one the other tree was wedged behind that one and it sprung out and slap me in the chest pinning me to the tractor and then fell on the stick that operates the bucket which dropped the bucket and started rolling it forward crushing me the whole time! While this is happening my cousin runs to this huge pine tree and begins to try and pick it up off me while the tractor is moving forward the whole time and somehow I had enough sense to yell at him to get the chainsaw and cut the d@#n thing! Anyway ended up paralyzed for awhile and 4 back surgeries later here I am! But looking back there was a branch the size of my arm sticking straight up right where the tree hit me so if it had of been pointing in my direction I would no longer be here so I must have a reason to be left on this earth and I just hope it has something to do with the biggest buck ever LOL!!!! But seriously I am very lucky to be here and be walking and I now always know when the weather is changing!!!
 
Recurveaholic said:
Mine wasn't a hunting incident either but it did involve a tree! We were cleaning up trees in our neighborhood after a hurricane and I was on the tractor with my cousin(boss at the time) in the bucket cutting the trees! We came across two pretty big pine trees laying basically on top of each other so when he cuts the first one the other tree was wedged behind that one and it sprung out and slap me in the chest pinning me to the tractor and then fell on the stick that operates the bucket which dropped the bucket and started rolling it forward crushing me the whole time! While this is happening my cousin runs to this huge pine tree and begins to try and pick it up off me while the tractor is moving forward the whole time and somehow I had enough sense to yell at him to get the chainsaw and cut the d@#n thing! Anyway ended up paralyzed for awhile and 4 back surgeries later here I am! But looking back there was a branch the size of my arm sticking straight up right where the tree hit me so if it had of been pointing in my direction I would no longer be here so I must have a reason to be left on this earth and I just hope it has something to do with the biggest buck ever LOL!!!! But seriously I am very lucky to be here and be walking and I now always know when the weather is changing!!!
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Storm damage tree removal is some of the most dangerous tree work imaginable. Seems like EVERYTHING is loaded and waiting for you to make a mistake so it can kick the s#$@ out of you. I just had a little clean up up here with Isias? knocked down a lot of nice trees. Neighbors had a big black locust hang on their roof and smash their side deck. Seemed like every cut was loaded. There is some reason, maybe to touch the life of your children, maybe to help a stranger, be a good husband or son, maybe to arrow a straight up hog booner? Whatever it is I'm sure your getting done. Glad your still here.
 
neonomad said:
I’ve had multiple moments of truth in the woods but the big one was having a mild stroke in 2015, no reason identified. The meaning of mortality really set in. Now when I climb with a JX3 I wear an RC harness under the Hybrid, I use both lineman and advance a tether on the way up, and then use the linesman as a backup tether to the RC harness once I’m set up. A fall could happen but two ropes would have to break before I hit the ground. I’m on a mild blood thinner forever so Im also not anxious to spear a stick step into my leg.
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I had a blood clot, didn't know anything about them. No reason. I'm 56 yrs old and in pretty good shape for the shape I'm in, and I don't eat as bad as I could. Turns out they run in my family, I know my mom has had them but she's super old. Then I find out my sister has had one, and several months ago one of my older brothers gets one. Now I know everything about clots. It's eye opening, and it's a reminder to me that I am not indestructible, like I feel I am most of the time. As you put it," it makes you aware of your mortality". It makes me grateful every day for my imperfect life.
 
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