#1706185 - 01/04/10 09:19 AM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Tnyoteboy
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Turned around getting out a of ladder stand 17 years ago and just fell flat-[censored] backwards on my butt/hip. Had to go to the chiropractor for years off and on after that. LUCKILY that is my only misshap, but it takes only ONCE.
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#1706290 - 01/04/10 10:33 AM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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BIG D
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While I have not had any bad falls, the stories being posted on here are really powerful. It's enough to make me never climb without a harness.
This should be locked to the top for a while IMO.
Stay safe guys. While we all love this sport of hunting, it's really a small thing in comparison to YOUR LIFE and the lives of your loved ones. Not worth the gamble. You will lose. Go to the casino if ya wanna gamble.
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#1706316 - 01/04/10 10:44 AM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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MUP
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I also used the old Baker stand years ago and quit before too
long. It took too long for the scabs on my chest and arms to
heal.
I still have my first baker climber w/ hand climber too!
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#1706350 - 01/04/10 11:03 AM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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A.K.A.
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Only close fall I've had was at Catoosa this year. Was climbing down, the bottom fell to the ground. Luckily I was only bout 6' from the ground by then and just jumped. After wards I remembered that the two pieces were actually hooked together. Duh! Oh ya, I had forgot by safety harness at the house!
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#1706411 - 01/04/10 11:40 AM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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stik
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Only close fall I've had was at Catoosa this year. Was climbing down, the bottom fell to the ground. Luckily I was only bout 6' from the ground by then and just jumped. After wards I remembered that the two pieces were actually hooked together. Duh! Oh ya, I had forgot by safety harness at the house!
i have sat on the ground several times because of that. no harness=no climbing
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#1706462 - 01/04/10 12:09 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Winchester
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99% of all falls are when ascending and descending when people dont have a safety belt attached. This can be solved easily with a climber by attaching the belt at the ground and moving it when you move the stand up the tree. Loc on is a lil more touble but you can attach a rope and use a prussic knot to slide up as you go. Even more dangerous is actually hanging loc ons, whic I used to do with no safety belt, but I have since learned it is much easier with a linemans belt, which is not only safer but much easier as it frees up both hands. The last 15 years have been much easier hanging loc ons since disovering the linemans belt.
I had my first fall just this year however, and it was putting up a 2 man ladder stand in the back yard to target shoot from. I fell 16 feet after the telephone pole actually snapped off at the ground while I was attaching the stand, freak accident and I was very glad I didnt have a safety harness attached to me and the pole as it would likely have killed me.
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#1706994 - 01/04/10 04:59 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Yodel Dog
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The Bakers were before my time, but i can't imagine them being much worse than the old Summits with the hand climber. I had a friend off work for a year after one slid coming down the tree and, of course, no harness. Mine has slid several times coming down, leaving my hand climber several feet up the tree. Needless to say, I've retired the old Summit. I don't even use a climber much anymore. I feel much safer in a loc-on or a ladder stand.
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#1707056 - 01/04/10 05:34 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Knothead
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....I can't attach my safety harness to the tree until I get in to the stand.....BH
Oh, yes you can!! Prussik Knot on a rope is all it takes.
Come on guys!! I'm with BigJ on this issue: there are NO excuses. 
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#1707489 - 01/04/10 08:08 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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Boone 58
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Yes you can......the old bakers were platformed out of a thin sheet of plywood....never remember a summitt with plywood anywhere on it.
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#1707553 - 01/04/10 08:30 PM
Re: Treestand Accidents & Mishaps
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mallardman09
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I had my 55 yr old dad with me this year on opening day of gun season. He had to go spend 75 bucks on hunting license the night before because he had only been hunting his property. I shot my best buck of my career at 0645 hrs. Called my dad on cell phone and told him. He said give me a little while longer I've got deer. I went and looked at the rack in amazement, and like the excited kid I was again, excited and proud to show dad I called him again. He said come get me ( he never been to this spot before ). So I began to walk to his spot, once I get to about 25 yards from his stand he was stood up in a twelve foot ladder stand looking the other direction, and put his hand up for me to stop. A few seconds pass and he waves for me to come on. I look down hear a "ping" look back up and he is falling head first. I begin running to him as his face hits first into an approximate 3' rock. I'm in a profession to where I see tramatic events and handle them, but this was family, all sense of what to do leaves and I'm dads little boy again. I fight back tears from hearing the painfull moan and seeing the blood pouring out of his head, and instantly attempt to stabalize his head and neck while calling 911. To make this long story shorter, I'm a dad now myself, and to all the other dad's out there BUY & WEAR a safety harness. It doesn't matter how tough you are or big and strong, it only takes one mishap and I saw this firsthand. Don't put your loved ones through that type of event that can be prevented. Take an extra 2 minutes at the stand and wear it ! My dad had to be taken out of woods on a Gator by the local rescue squad and transported to a hospital. He was lucky he ended up only having a broken wrist (still to date in cast) and a broken elbow, and a severe concussion. I'm so thankfull to the Lord for letting him be ok. Dad's still kinda ill about buying the license and gettin to use it for about 45 minutes but happy to be alive, needless to say his hunting season was over for the year.
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