I echo everyones' best wishes for a speedy recovery.  For a bad situation, you are one lucky individual.  I have three or four tree stands sitting in with my equipment in the basement and there they stay.  Terra firma for me.

Best wishes on a speedy recovery, could have been a lot worse.  

I had a similar experience 13 years ago, pelvis fractures in two places and two fractures in back.  Was laid up for 10 weeks.

Wish you a speedy recovery, glad it wasn't worse

Get well soon. Good luck with your recovery.

Glad I read this.

My Gorilla is now retired.

Prayers for complete healing and thanks that it wasn't worse.

God bless,Mudd

I think this thread is going to save some people.It has sure reinforced some things for me that I need to do and not do.

Yikes! Sorry to hear this, but glad you are still alive. Hope the healing process goes well and quickly.
Darcy

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

 

Kyle so glad you are ok. Like I said at the hospital if you need anything just let me know.

I hope you have a speedy recovery... Thank the Lord your accident was not worse.

Your a lucky guy. Heal up soon and get back on that horse.

Thanks guys, and I intend to be in a tree October 1st.

Heal up quick, glad you're still here. I'm in Jackson , holler if you need something

Hope you heal quickly and thanks for the reminder.

Hate to hear you will be down for a while. Prays for you from my family. Heck of a way to spend a summer vacation.

QuoteOriginally posted by finkm1:
That's why I've been replacing my hangons with ladder stands. A friends stand did the same thing and he was laid up for a long time.

I had a bad fall with a ladder.   It pulled away from the tree while taking it down.  It was go over backwards or just push away and jump.  I jumped.   Lots of cuts but no broken bones.

Thanks for passing along your story.  It has been said that "it is a very ill wind that blows no one some good."  Your ill wind has blown up a good warning for a lot of people.

It could be that God let you have your accident (knowing the pain it would bring, but that you could bear it) so that several others' lives would be saved through hearing your warning.

I try to stay out of trees for the most part, due to stories like this.  Get well soon!

Kyle so sorry you were injured also so thankful that you posted this. Tom say...my Gorilla stand in the park has got to go or get new cables. So we will be shopping for a new lock on. I always wear a safety strap...usually I use the one withe prussic knots with it attached to my safety harness. Sometimes I will have a tree with my Fall Guy. We only leave one stand up all year and that is my "go to" stand. We always check all stands when we hang them and the safety lines. We always buy use new rachet straps each year for the lock on stands especially for the Gorilla in the park. Missouri winters takes it's toll on those straps and so do the squirrels. Wish we could just walk out to the shed and check stands today but they are about 1250 miles away.

I have LOVED that Gorilla stand and have killed a lot of deer from it. Always said it was big enough for me to square dance on it. I could turn and shoot from any angle.  

Stands been up there for ...8 years. The really scary thing is Tom climbing up the ladder stand to it and then testing it by giving it that little JUMP!

Thank you again for your post..praying for a full recovery for you.

QuoteOriginally posted by Archie:
Thanks for passing along your story.  It has been said that "it is a very ill wind that blows no one some good."  Your ill wind has blown up a good warning for a lot of people.

It could be that God let you have your accident (knowing the pain it would bring, but that you could bear it) so that several others' lives would be saved through hearing your warning.

I try to stay out of trees for the most part, due to stories like this.  Get well soon!

It has definately helped me deal with the pain and up coming rehab after reading these responses. I feel that some good may come from it, and keep others from the same fate. Also, in many ways, it was better me than some of the other guys I hunt with who might have used that stand. I'm relatively young and in good shape...I don't want to think about what it might have done to the late 60s man I hunt with bad he been in the tree. (And he still hunts that high, same stands and all.)