#1701861 - 01/01/10 06:10 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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smokepolemonky
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get a rope with a prussic knot you can slide up the rope as you climb Hay Stik will this keep me from rolling down a hill to.LOL
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#1701879 - 01/01/10 06:18 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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elauwit
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I was going to buy one of those old climbers off a buddy years ago. I got about 20 foot up a tree in the yard and the thing fell. I tried to hug the tree and the ride down tore all the skin off the inside of my arms.
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#1701895 - 01/01/10 06:25 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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stik
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get a rope with a prussic knot you can slide up the rope as you climb Hay Stik will this keep me from rolling down a hill to.LOL
possibly 
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#1701958 - 01/01/10 06:48 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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no problems
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#1702117 - 01/01/10 07:40 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Mike Belt
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Somewhere around 10 years ago I had made a morning hunt down a steep ridge in the bottoms. After I climbed down I carried my stand up on top of the ridge to hang it for rifle opener. I was up "almost" as high as I wanted to go but decided to cut just 1 more good sized limb behind me so I could get just a little bit higher. I was around 30 feet high at that point. When I cut the limb it snapped and broke hitting the back of my stand and dropping the V bar to where it was perpendicular to the cylinder of the tree. The stand and I went straight to the base of the tree. When I looked down one leg was straight and the other was bent at 2 very odd angles where I had snapped the leg bone in half at both points. It took a while to climb out of the stand. It took 5 hours laying on the ground crawling on my side towards the edge of the woods where my wheeler was parked. I tried to strap my broken leg down on top of my good leg but every once in awhile it would flop off and the pain was almost enough to make me pass out. Once I got to the wheeler it took another hour to get on it and drive the mile back to the truck. Then I drove up the ramps and into the back of the truck. It hurt like the dickens trying to get back down to the ground. I drove the hour home and then headed to the hospital. I wanted no part of an operation so I had a hard leg cast put on. The problem was that I couldn't swing my leg into the truck to drive. I now had the entire upcoming deer season off and I wasn't about to sit at home. I went back to the hospital for an operation and a removable knee cast. I don't think I missed a day deer hunting that year even though I couldn't use a climber again all season, albeit most of it on crutches. The following year I didn't hesitate to climb another tree and haven't balked since. HOWEVER! I now attach my climbing belt on the ground and don't remove it until I'm back on the ground. I wasn't wearing one when I fell.
Edited by Mike Belt (01/01/10 07:42 PM)
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#1702134 - 01/01/10 07:46 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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A month ago my best friend had the third set of rapid rails come loose as he was climbing. He fell about 15 feet. Fractured his hip and ruptured disks in his lower back. Scheduled for back surgery this Monday.
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#1702373 - 01/01/10 09:02 PM
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archer19
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Had a buddy cut a finger off this season with a climber. Stopped on a knot, didn't know it. Putting the seat strap around the tree, slipped off the knot. Finger between cable and tree. Drove himself 4 miles out on 4wheeler, then to Hospital. Sewed back on and doing good. He got a nice 8pt the next day.
Just have to know the guy. Nothing stops this fellow from hunting.
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#1702432 - 01/01/10 09:28 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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I Posted this story last year, a year that he is missed...
A FALL STORY
DEDICATIED TO:
Brian
This is a story that needs to be told and shared. Have you ever meet a person that thought he was superman, hardheaded and opinionated. A fearless type person that would listen to what you have to say but will do it his way regardless.
Well you have meet Brian.
Brian was a good husband and a devoted deer hunter. It didn’t matter how busy he was he always found time to hunt and love doing it. He also loved telling you the story of the hunt even if you already heard it. Brian was very successful at hunting. He let you know that too. This guy feared nothing. He didn’t care how high or how steep something was he had to get there. He had been asked to wear safety gear but in one ear and out the other. Fearless I say, forty feet up a tree was great by him.
This past fall season we lost Brian to a fall that took his life. He and a relative were hunting one evening and a shoot was heard by the relative and he headed to the truck to see if he could help Brian with his deer. After awhile the relative got worried and started looking for Brian that hadn’t shown up. After looking so long he called some friends. After they arrived and looked they called the rescue squad. Brian was found not far from his tree lifeless. He had fallen from his treestand that was 35 to 37 feet up. After the investigation they had found he had used his truck key as a cotter pin for the one he was missing in his climber. They think when he turned to shoot his deer that the key had broke and he feel to his death. Brian was not wearing a safety harness or tied off to the tree. Brian tried to crawl back to his truck for help by raping his belt around his chest so that he could breath, for his ribs were smashed and legs and arm broke. He crawled several feet till it took his life. Superman, I say so he refused to give up.
I believe that if Brian were with us today to tell you the story. For that I am sure and I wish he could. It goes without saying that Brian took short cuts. I’m sure he would wear a safety harness and make sure his equipment was in order. So please for us that new Brian don’t be like him.
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#1703458 - 01/02/10 04:22 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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BSK
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All I have to say is "I used to own a Baker climbing stand." Obviously, I've had several falls. Luckily only minor injuries (except for a knee injury that still gives me problems).
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#1703468 - 01/02/10 04:30 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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stik
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All I have to say is "I used to own a Baker climbing stand." Obviously, I've had several falls. Luckily only minor injuries (except for a knee injury that still gives me problems).
my 1st experience with a treestand was one of them bakers. i think it was about 5 years before i climbed in another stand(not a baker).
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